Aubrieta 'Florado Blue Eye'

Transform Rockeries And Containers With Dazzling Bright-Eyed Spring Blooms And Evergreen Ground Cover
Aubrieta Florado Blue Eye
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Key Features

  • Blue-purple spring flowers with bright greenish-yellow eyes create a striking carpet of colour in your garden from April to May
  • Low-growing evergreen foliage forms neat spreading mats, helping to soften walls, edges, rockeries and container displays
  • RHS recommended as a ‘Plant for Pollinators’, bringing valuable early-season interest into your garden
  • Fully hardy and easy to grow, this compact perennial brings long-term colour with very little fuss
  • A brilliant choice for filling gaps and tumbling over raised edges, creating that natural, established spring-garden look
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Description

Little blooms, massive impact! Aubrieta 'Florado Blue Eye' stays low, spreads neatly and smothers itself in blue-purple flowers, each with a lively greenish-yellow eye.

Make your garden feel fresh again with this Aubrieta, whether softening the front of borders, spilling over walls, brightening rockeries, edging pathways or bringing colour to containers and hanging baskets - this variety can do it all!

Mat-forming evergreen foliage gives structure even when the flowers have finished, while the spring display delivers a vivid splash of colour just when the garden needs a lift.

Plus, 'Florado Blue Eye' is RHS recommended as a 'Plant for Pollinator', offering useful nectar for bees and other pollinating insects in spring.

Fully hardy, low-growing and easy to grow, this is an excellent choice for sunny, well-drained spots, especially where a neat carpet of colour will make the most impact.

Top Tips
Deadhead any faded flowers for an abudance of blooms.
Care Information

Planting Advice:

  • Unpack plugs immediately and stand them in water for an hour.
  • If you can’t do this, they can sit in their mini greenhouse for a week if upright and not too wet.
  • Plugs may be slightly dry or yellow after being in a dark box in the post, but they’ll quickly recover.
  • Put them somewhere warm, light and airy such as a windowsill or greenhouse.
  • When potting on, handle plugs carefully. Pot on using our 9cm pots in Shuttle Trays, using good multi-purpose compost.
  • Alternatively plant straight into baskets and grow on for a week or two before hanging up.
  • Give your plants a good water initially, then only when the top compost starts to dry. They don’t like to be left in standing water.
  • Plant approx. 20cm apart to allow them room to grow.
  • Feed using a high-potash feed such as Blooming Fast Superior Soluble Fertiliser for Flowers & Fruits, to encourage flowering.

Aftercare Advice:

  • Keep well watered.

Pruning and Trimming Advice:

  • To keep a compact shape cut back after flowering.
  • If the plant has become straggly or overgrown, give it a hard prune cutting right back
Delivery Information

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.

Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.

We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.

Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.

Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

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Size Guide
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Pro Plug
Small Plugs

Size:
Height 4-6cm

Ease:
Easy

Grow On?:
Yes

Pro+ Plug
Medium Plugs

Size:
Height 5-7cm

Ease:
Easy

Grow On?:
Yes

Plugs
Plugs

Size:
Height 8-12cm

Ease:
Easy

Grow On?:
Yes

Jumbo Plugs
Plugs

Size:
Height 10-20cm

Ease:
Easy

Grow On?:
Yes

Garden Ready
Garden Ready

Size:
Height 14-20cm

Ease:
Easiest

Grow On?:
Not Necessary