Shipping is $7 total no matter how many roots youĭespite the fact that Wild Comfrey is very invasive, the roots can be sensitive to getting started when they are transplanted. Shows what your Wild Blue-Flowered Comfrey root looks like. These 2 photos are from Trish in Binghamton, New York. With the larger pot, they are already beginning to spread. They do well with plenty of light and water. "Your Hidcote Blue makes nice potted plants. The second photo is after the flowers have fallen from the stalk.Īre young plants from Patrick in eastern Nebraska. That if this persnickety Comfrey likes Appalachia, it will get along alright "I live in the hills between the Adirondacks and the Catskills, so I believe I saw it in the Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts about 1988 at Berkshire Botanical Garden." I have been in search of the short comfrey with the vibrant blue flowers. "I was taught herb craft at my Grandmother's knee. The small photo of the blue-flowered comfrey in a pot is from Alex in Reading, Pennsylvania. Native sounds good to me, but I think you could call it Hidcote blue." "Who cares what it is, I love watching it, and the mystery is fun. In the flowers for both, so it’s hard to say based on flowers." asperum is supposed to, and they’re not as ‘prickly’." grandiflorum Hidcoteīlue debate, based on what mine have done so far, I can’t imagine them gettingĪs tall as S. The next photo is when it was well established. Russian Comfrey (#4 or #14) and True Comfrey.Ģ photos from Duncan in west central Illinois of a wild comfrey plant that This variety of comfrey is not liked very much by livestock. Time except for a few flowers here and there throughout spring and summer. If you don't cut the flowerstalks, it will only bloom that one Hidcote Blue Comfrey blooms earlier in spring than Russian and True/CommonĬomfrey. With the flower stalk, it is 2 feet tall.Īsperum x Symphytum grandiflorum = Symphytum grandiflorum Hidcote Blue=Ĭalled it 'Dyers' Comfrey because the leaves can be used to dye cloth or The leaves grow to about 1 to 1½ feet tall. I found it in the southern Appalachian Mountains. leaves carry terminal bunches of long pink buds opening to blue and white tubular flowers. Hidcoteīlue comfrey spreads by creeping rhizomes. Family: Boraginaceae Common name: Symphytum grandiflorum. But some people want a ground cover that will spread fast. It grew all aroundĬomfrey Bocking #4 and #14 that I sell is a sterile hybrid and is not invasiveĪt all. It into a compost pile to decompose, but it grew instead. It, it will spread rapidly and be difficult to get rid of. It spreads by underground roots (rhizomes).
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