Pulmonaria 'Little Star'

The best things really do come in small packages, Pulmonaria 'Little Star' proves the point perfectly! This diminutive herbaceous lungwort is just the thing for squeezing into little gaps, tight corners and snug containers. Growing to just 20cm high and with a slightly spreading habit, it gradually fills the space it’s given with gorgeous greenery through most of the year plus a shock of cobalt-blue flowers in spring. The combination of blue blooms with silvery foliage is incredibly striking, and you can look forward to a repeat show of that from February every year. One of the first signs of spring, Pulmonaria 'Little Star' is sure to dispel the winter blues. You’ll also be keeping the wildlife happy with this early flowering perennial, which provides a much-needed boost for pollinators.  

Pulmonaria 'Little Star' is a very useful garden plant, it’s no wonder it has an RHS Award of Garden Merit. It’s effective as a dainty groundcover, filling bare spaces with colour and texture and suppressing weeks in areas of shade or partial shade. Whilst it is a low-growing, ground cover plant, it is non-invasive and requires very little management. Skirting around shrubs, at the base of trees or in little spaces in north-facing borders, it’s always a pretty sight to see in spring.

The bare root Pulmonaria 'Little Star' plants will do best if potted up and grown on for a few months until it has established some growth before transplanting it out into a border. Like all bare roots, a little nurturing at first will pay dividends when you end up with a long-lasting, low maintenance plant which will thrive for years to come.