About
Aubrieta 'Audrey Blue' is a low-growing, evergreen perennial that typically reaches a height of around 10 cm. This plant features small, hairy leaves that may have a toothed appearance, displaying a grey-green hue. From mid-spring to early summer, it produces clusters of mid blue-purple flowers with four petals, arranged in short spikes. This variety is known for its slow-spreading, mat-like growth habit.
About the genus
Aubrieta are low-growing, evergreen perennials characterized by their small foliage and compact clusters of four-petaled blooms that appear in pink and purple hues during the spring season.
Growing conditions
- Sunlight
- Full sun
- Soil type
- Chalk, Loam, Sand
- Soil pH
- Alkaline, Neutral
- Soil moisture
- Well-drained
- Aspect
- West-facing, South-facing
- Exposure
- Exposed, Sheltered
- UK hardiness
- H6
Plant details
- Plant type
- Alpine Rockery
- Habit
- Matforming
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Height
- Up to 10 cm
- Spread
- 0.1-0.5 metres
- Time to full height
- 2-5 years
- Suggested uses
- City and courtyard gardens, Cottage and informal garden, Coastal, Gravel garden, Patio and container plants, Rock garden
Care notes
- Cultivation
- Best grown in well-drained soil in full sun but can tolerate light shade; an ideal plant for dry areas such as chalky slopes and on walls. Being hardy it is a useful container plant for spring colour
- Pruning
- Cut back after flowering to maintain compactness
- Propagation
- Propagate by seed, softwood or semi-hardwood cuttings
- Pest resistance
- May be susceptible to aphids, leaf and bud eelworms and flea beetles.
- Disease resistance
- May be susceptible to white blister