Park Seed Lobelia Flower Plant Seeds, Easy to Grow, Perfect for Spring Garden, Rapid Blue, Pack of 20

It's going to be another beautiful spring in your garden! We are delighted to celebrate 150 years of gardening friendship with you! "Your success and pleasure are more to Park than your money." The motto of our founder, George W. Park, has been the inspiration for Park Seed Company ever since its 1868 founding at the kitchen table of a 15-year-old boy who hoped to sell seeds from his own garden for a little pocket money. Mr. Park considered gardening a spiritual delight as well as a useful and pleasant activity. In early catalogs, he encouraged gardeners to form clubs and swap seeds, even printing nature poetry they had written. His catalogs united gardeners in remote rural areas, and by 1918, Park Seed Company had 180,000 customers. Today our gardeners number in the millions, yet we still adhere to Mr. Park's original motto. We may be connecting online through social media rather than handwritten letters, but the spirit and the result is the same: bringing the joys of gardening to as many people as possible.

• Rapid Blue Lobelia, a dwarf species, is a tender perennial (Zones 10-11), usually grown as an annual, offering spring and summer interest.
• An early bloomer, lush and reliable, it blooms profusely, with masses of showy, dainty, dark blue flowers smothering the long-flowering plant. Borne in large, loose clusters, the flowers attract butterflies.
• A Lobelia erinus, a highly popular traditional garden favorite, also known as edging lobelia or compact lobelia, Rapid Blue has an upright, compact, bushy habit of narrow green leaves.
• It is shown to best effect grouped or massed, as it forms a low, cushy mat of intensely colored blooms. Rapid Blue is perfect for rock gardens, beds, border edges, and containers.
• Rapid Blue Lobelia prefers full sun to dappled shade and organically rich, evenly moist, well-drained soils. It performs best in cool spring weather. The plant may decline in hot and humid summer conditions; so, under those conditions, more shade, consistent water, and a 2-inch layer of mulch is recommended.