I think if you go for a stable variety you may get closer to your objective of variegation. I have had this for some years and there is no reversion. The leaf is very attractive, and the flowers are the same as the standard Brunnera.

Kind regards,

Peter

Peter, thank you for your suggestion of Jack Frost, that's a good looking plant you have there.

Hi Margaret,

Very healthy , no disease, and usually gives me one extra seedling a year within about twenty feet of the parent, so good for giving to a friend as well. It is more lovely even than the photo suggests.

Kind regards,

Peter

Peter, I am sure those friends that received the seedlings were very happy indeed.

Hi Margaret,

One of the great by-products of gardening is having a supply of free plants that you can give away. People are delighted to get them and you have the pleasure of growing them in the first place. What a great hobby, habit, obsession. I photographed a variegated agapanthus for you yesterday. I will track down the name, but it has a beautiful light caught in it.

Kind regards,

Peter

Margaret....I would recommend Jack Frost also. I have several plants and all have been stable.

Thank you Peter, that is a very nice plant, does it spread much?

Paul, your Jack Frost looks great, maybe I will give that cultivar a try.

Hi Margaret, nope doesn't spread at all. After three years still one foot by one foot, by one foot tall. Very well behaved and stays put.

Kind regards,

Peter

Very nice photograph Paul, you should send it in to the database for an acorn or two.
Peter

Peter, Paul probably added it already, he adds many images to the database on a regular basis.

I have the Jack Frost Brunnera, and the leaves are beautiful, however it has never once flowered for me. Can anyone suggest why? It is in a dryish shady site under a large apple tree.

Hi Vanessa,

Mine is in a south facing bed and flowers its silly head off. I also have a regular brunnera in a north facing bed and it flowers away as well so it is probably to do with moisture. Neither are shaded though. Perhaps the tree is taking the moisture and providing more shade than is wanted. There can't be any other reason. Does the plant look well and have a healthy glow with undamaged leaves?

Peter

Good afternoon Margaret,

Here are a couple more variegated plants for your garden, I came across them recently and thought about yourself.

This is Hebe addenda "Katrina"



and this is called Alstroemeria "Rock and Roll".



Kind regards,

Peter

Peter, that was kind of you to think of me when you found those lovely plants. I really like both, sadly they would not survive in my zone 3a garden.


Margaret