Heliotropium arborescens ‘Lord Roberts’
Description:
Bennett (2002) in Pulmonaria and the Borage Family has a 'small habit with soft violet, scented flowers'. Described in The Garden 1995 as being 'the typical mid-range colour common to the widest groups of cultivars.', our earliest record is from The Garden* 1913. Cited in the 1950s as Heliotropium peruvianum 'Lord Roberts.
* an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches, published in London from 1871-1927.
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