Description
Omphalodes cappadocica ‘Cherry Ingram’
Another treasure for the Spring garden with the brightest blue forget-me-not like flowers held in short sprays, 20cm high, over clumps of smooth, crumpled, lanceolate leaves. For a shady spot in good soil. This beautiful little plant will brighten any shady spot in spring and provide good, if not vigorous, ground cover. The attractively ridged foliage is evergreen. Named for Collingwood Ingram, nicknamed ‘Cherry’ for his great love of Japanese Cherries.
Navelwort – Omphalodes
Omphalodes are the navelworts, a name that doesn’t really inspire you with the beauty which they posses. I don’t now if common or botanical name came first, but the latter derives from the Greek for ‘Navel-like’ a reference to the shape of the seeds. With the most penetrating blue flowers and lovely leaves as well to describe you often have to think that some botanists lack a soul. Marie Antoinette was obviously a better judge as she counted them amongst her favourites.
Omphalodes are all species for a cool leafy soil where there is good drainage. The come from light woodland habitats in Europe across into Asia.
Omphalodes are members of the Boraginaceae, along with such bedfellows as the Lungworts, Comfrey, Borage and the Siberian Bugloss, Brunnera. The genus was once larger than it is today, but species from North America and Japan have now been split off into separate genera of their own.
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