Set of 2 Blue Daze Live Plants – Evolvulus glomeratus – 3-6″ Tall in 3-4″ Pots

Overview

Bring a splash of vibrant blue to your garden with this exquisite set of two Blue Daze live plants. Known botanically as Evolvulus glomeratus, this charming perennial is celebrated for its abundant, true-blue flowers and soft, silvery-green foliage. Often called Blue My Mind or Dwarf Morning Glory, Blue Daze creates a stunning visual impact, blooming continuously from spring through the first frost in warm, sunny conditions. These plants are shipped approximately 3-6 inches tall in individual 3-4 inch nursery pots, ensuring they arrive healthy and ready to transform your outdoor spaces. Ideal for garden beds, containers, hanging baskets, and coastal landscapes, the Blue Daze live plant is a versatile and beautiful addition to any sunny spot.

This heat-loving groundcover exhibits a delightful mounding and trailing growth habit, making it perfect for filling in spaces or spilling gracefully over the edges of pots. While it thrives as a tender perennial in USDA Zones 9-11, gardeners in cooler climates can enjoy its spectacular display as a vigorous annual. Its low-maintenance nature and continuous blooming make it a favorite for both novice and experienced gardeners seeking long-lasting color and appeal. Experience the joy of a garden adorned with the captivating hues of Evolvulus glomeratus.

Key Benefits

This remarkable plant offers numerous advantages for your garden and home, making it a truly rewarding choice:

• Continuous Blue Blooms: Enjoy a season-long display of striking, true-blue, funnel-shaped flowers from spring until frost. The prolific blooming habit ensures your garden stays vibrant and colorful for months.
• Versatile Groundcover: With its mounding and trailing growth, Blue Daze is an excellent choice for creating a lush blue groundcover plant, suppressing weeds, and adding texture to garden beds and borders.
• Container & Hanging Basket Star: Its graceful habit makes it perfect for containers, window boxes, and hanging baskets, where its foliage and flowers can cascade beautifully, adding charm to patios and balconies.
• Heat & Drought Tolerant: Once established, Blue Daze is remarkably heat-tolerant and becomes drought-tolerant, making it a robust choice for sunny, warm climates and low-water gardening.
• Low Maintenance: This plant requires minimal care, including no deadheading, allowing you to enjoy its beauty without extensive effort. It’s an ideal option for busy gardeners.
• Attracts Pollinators: The bright blue flowers can attract beneficial pollinators like bees and butterflies to your garden, contributing to a healthy ecosystem.
• Coastal Landscape Friendly: Its resilience to harsh conditions makes it a superb choice for coastal areas, thriving where many other plants might struggle.

Plant Care & Growing Tips

Caring for your Blue Daze live plant is straightforward, ensuring a season of abundant blooms. This plant thrives in full sun, requiring at least 6 hours of direct sunlight daily to produce its best flowers. In extremely hot climates, some afternoon shade can be beneficial, but generally, the more sun, the better. When planting, choose a location with well-drained, moderately fertile soil. Blue Daze dislikes soggy conditions, so ensure good drainage to prevent root rot. If planting in containers, use a high-quality potting mix that drains well.

Watering is crucial, especially during establishment. Keep the soil consistently moist but not waterlogged. Once established, the Evolvulus glomeratus becomes more drought-tolerant, but regular watering during dry spells will encourage more prolific blooming. Fertilization is optional; a balanced liquid fertilizer applied every 4-6 weeks during the growing season can boost flowering, but avoid over-fertilizing. This plant is naturally low-maintenance, requiring no deadheading as spent blooms fall away cleanly.

As a tender perennial, heat-loving perennial Blue Daze is hardy in USDA Zones 9-11. In cooler zones, it is typically grown as an annual. If you wish to overwinter it indoors, bring it inside before the first frost and place it in a bright location, reducing watering. Watch out for common pests like spider mites or whiteflies, especially indoors; treat with insecticidal soap if necessary. Proper care will ensure your Blue Daze live plant flourishes, providing continuous beauty.

Size & Details

This offering includes a set of two Blue Daze live plant specimens. Each plant arrives in an individual 3-4 inch nursery pot, providing a healthy root system ready for transplanting. At the time of shipping, the plants typically measure between 3-6 inches tall, ensuring they are a manageable size for safe transport and immediate planting. As a mounding and trailing groundcover, the Dwarf Morning Glory can reach a mature height of approximately 8 inches, with a spread of up to 2 feet, creating a dense carpet of blue blooms.

Blue Daze exhibits a moderate to fast growth rate, quickly filling in garden spaces or containers. It will begin to bloom shortly after transplanting, continuing its floral display throughout the warm months. The plants are carefully packaged to minimize stress during transit, arriving healthy and ready to thrive in your garden. The vibrant true-blue flowers are a consistent feature, offering a reliable color accent to various landscape designs. The compact size at shipping makes them easy to handle and integrate into your planting scheme.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: How big does this Blue Daze live plant get? A: Each plant typically grows to about 8 inches tall and can spread up to 2 feet wide, forming a beautiful mounding and trailing habit ideal for groundcover or spilling from containers.
• Q: What size pot does it come in? A: Each Blue Daze plant is shipped in its own 3-4 inch individual nursery pot, ensuring a healthy root system and easy transplanting into your garden or larger containers.
• Q: Is this an indoor or outdoor plant? A: While primarily grown outdoors as a heat-loving perennial or annual, it can be overwintered indoors in bright light in cooler climates. It thrives best in outdoor full sun conditions.
• Q: How much sunlight does it need? A: Evolvulus glomeratus requires full sun exposure, meaning at least 6 hours of direct sunlight per day, to produce the most abundant and vibrant blue flowers.
• Q: Is this plant easy to care for? A: Yes, Blue Daze is considered low-maintenance. It’s quite forgiving once established and doesn’t require deadheading, making it an excellent choice for beginners and busy gardeners alike.
• Q: What condition will it arrive in? A: Your set of two Blue Daze live plants will arrive healthy, approximately 3-6 inches tall, and well-rooted in their nursery pots, carefully packaged to ensure safe transit.
• Q: Can I use Dwarf Morning Glory as a groundcover? A: Absolutely! Its mounding and trailing growth habit makes it an exceptional blue groundcover plant, perfect for filling sunny beds, borders, and rock gardens.
• Q: How long until it blooms? A: Blue Daze plants typically begin blooming shortly after transplanting and continue to produce flowers continuously from spring through frost under optimal conditions.
• Q: Will it survive winter in my zone? A: It is a tender perennial hardy in USDA Zones 9-11. In zones colder than 9, it is best grown as an annual or brought indoors for winter protection.
• Q: What’s the minimum temperature it can tolerate? A: As a tender perennial, Blue Daze is not frost-hardy and will typically succumb to freezing temperatures. It prefers warm conditions.