There are about 20 species of low growing or creeping annuals and evergreen perennials, in this genus. \u00a0They occur natural in open meadows bogs and dry sites in the Mediterranean and Western Europe. \u00a0They produce bright green opposite or alternate heart shaped to elliptical, smooth edged leaves with very short leaf stalks. \u00a0In spring and summer solitary bell shaped to open saucer shaped flowers each with 5 petals are produced from leaf axils. \u00a0These are easily grown colorful ground cover plants. \u00a0They come in a variety of colors of red, blue, white, pink or orange. \u00a0They\u2019re fairly frost hardy.<\/p>\n
When grown indoors grow in gritty soil based potting mix in full light.<\/p>\n
When grown outdoors plant in fertile moist but well-drained soil that doesn\u2019t dry out entirely in summer in full sun.<\/p>\n
Prone to aphids.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n Anagallis monelli ‘Pacific Blue\u2019 \u2013 Anagallis linifolia ‘Pacific Blue\u2019 \u2013 Anagallis collina ‘Pacific Blue\u2019 \u2013 Blue Pimpernel<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This low growing perennial reaches 18\u201d tall and 18\u201d or more wide. \u00a0It derives from the Mediterranean. \u00a0It produces lance shaped to elliptic mid green leaves to 1\u201d long carried in opposite pairs or in three\u2019s. \u00a0In summer it bears brilliant blue open saucer shaped flowers \u00bd\u201d or more across. \u00a0Red and pink flowers variants are available.<\/p>\n Zones 7-8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anagallis \u2013 Pimpernel There are about 20 species of low growing or creeping annuals and evergreen perennials, in this genus. \u00a0They occur natural in open meadows bogs and dry sites in the Mediterranean and Western Europe. \u00a0They produce bright green opposite or alternate heart shaped to elliptical, smooth edged leaves with very short leaf stalks. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[49,21,31,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160251796"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}