Lobelia siphilitica prophouse-summer-2026 a candidate for espalier against

a candidate for espalier against a warm wall

keeping the heavy crop but changing the color

the custard apple family whose tropical members include the cherimoya

so that the whole drooping cluster reads unmistakably as the tail of a boiled shrimp

Lobelia siphilitica prophouse-summer-2026 a candidate for espalier againstWhere the cardinal flower runs to scarlet, Lobelia siphilitica answers in blue. The great blue lobelia sends up leafy spikes packed with inch long, two lipped flowers of clear, saturated blue in late summer and early fall, one of the truest blues in the native flora and a gift to the garden at a tired time of year. The species grows wild across eastern and central North America in moist meadows, low woods, and along streamsides. Like the cardinal