Beautiful ling tailed purple snap dragons are arranged in threes around the stem and look like birds in flight. The epithet triornithophora means “to bear three birds”.
Intense true blue flowers smother the mat of dark green leaves during spring. Intolerant of soils with a high pH it will grow happily in any other sunny, well drained, humus rich spot and, at least here at Lambley, it tolerates drought pretty well. 20cm x 60cm.
I was given this marvellous plant by the late Pat Bowley who created a beautiful garden near Bowral in NSW. Its stems are covered in beautiful fingered silky leaves. Each stem branches several times and the top of each branch holds a blue and white lupin.
