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Great Blue Lobelia

7 years ago

This is my first year with GBL and I decided to buy some wooden stakes to insert into the large pot where I keep the plant (I don't have a yard so must use pots). As some stems got longer I secured them to a stake with gardening twine. But other shorter stems...I began to notice that even though not secured to a stake...it wasn't that the stems were getting too 'leggy' or were flopping over but...the actual stems seemed to have a curved growth pattern...some of the shorter stems go more horizontal and are curved. Is this typical...and maybe they just grow in random directions if not secured to a vertical stake (..a vertical stake which might make the stems more included to grow vertically/straight)?

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gardenweed_z6a
7 years ago
I grew it 6+ years ago from seed via winter sowing. It did have a flopping habit but I had no objections--I planted it to sustain pollinators. This year a seedling came up through a crack in my ancient breezeway concrete so I left it to do its thing. I'm in southern New England and it's still blooming. As you commented, the actual stems have a curved growth pattern...some of the shorter stems go more horizontal and are curved. I don't have a problem with how it grows and simply walk around where it's growing up through the concrete.
Lynn Nevins
Original Author
7 years ago
Thanks all. I do water it daily. And the stems are not floppy as in 'limp'. Rather, some of the stems seems to grow in a curvy pattern, as others above seem to have also experienced. So it sounds like nothing for me to necessarily fret about... ;-)
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