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Lobelia cardinalis 'Queen Victoria', Cardinal flower, is a selected red-foliaged cultivar of Lobelia cardinalis, an American Lobelia which grows from Canada down to Columbia. Its purplish-red leaves are attractive enough but its tall spikes of vibrant scarlet flowers from late summer to autumn are a wonderful and exuberant display of exotic colour.
Lobelia cardinalis 'Queen Victoria' likes a fertile moist soil and full sun. Don't let it dry out in the summer and during flowering. Dead-heading once the flowers are spent will conserve its energy and it should be mulched in winter with several inches of bark.
Lobelia cardinalis 'Queen Victoria' is often planted en masse as a bedding plant. It is also often planted in the typical 'groups of three' planting arrangement that garden design schools like to promote to their new students. This is all ok... but... it just looks so much better as a single tall plant dotted among foliage plants where the bright red flowers harmonise with the jungle greens and provide such a vivid visual focus. Be different...
Additional Information
| Order | Asterales |
|---|---|
| Family | Campanulaceae |
| Sub-Family | Lobelioideae |
| Synonyms | Dortmanna cardinalis, Dortmanna cordigera, Dortmanna engelmanniana, Dortmanna fulgens, Dortmanna graminea, Dortmanna longifolia, Dortmanna phyllostachya, Dortmanna splendens, Lobelia cardinalis var. alba, Lobelia cardinalis f. alba, Lobelia cardinalis var. angustifolia, Lobelia cardinalis var. candida, Lobelia cardinalis f. cardinalis, Lobelia cardinalis subsp. cardinalis, Lobelia cardinalis f. cordigera, Lobelia cardinalis var. glandulosa, Lobelia cardinalis var. graminea, Lobelia cardinalis subsp. graminea, Lobelia cardinalis f. hispidula, Lobelia cardinalis var. hispidula, Lobelia cardinalis var. integerrima, Lobelia cardinalis var. meridionalis, Lobelia cardinalis var. multiflora, Lobelia cardinalis var. phyllostachya, Lobelia cardinalis var. propinqua, Lobelia cardinalis var. pseudosplendens, Lobelia cardinalis f. rosea, Lobelia cardinalis f. splendens, Lobelia cardinalis var. texensis, Lobelia coccinea, Lobelia cordigera, Lobelia cordigera var. fatalis, Lobelia cordigera var. marryattiae, Lobelia cordigera var. multiflora, Lobelia cordigera var. pyramidalis, Lobelia formosa, Lobelia fulgens, Lobelia fulgens f. atrosanguinea, Lobelia fulgens var. glabriuscula, Lobelia fulgens f. maculata, Lobelia fulgens var. marryattiae, Lobelia fulgens var. multiflora, Lobelia fulgens var. propinqua, Lobelia fulgens var. pyramidalis, Lobelia fulgens f. rosea, Lobelia graminea, Lobelia graminea var. intermedia, Lobelia graminea f. kerneri, Lobelia graminea var. phyllostachya, Lobelia graminea var. pseudosplendens, Lobelia ignea, Lobelia kerneri, Lobelia longifolia, Lobelia marryattiae, Lobelia mucronata, Lobelia phyllostachya, Lobelia porphyrantha, Lobelia princeps, Lobelia propinqua, Lobelia punicea, Lobelia punicea var. kerneri, Lobelia ramosa, Lobelia schiedeana, Lobelia splendens, Lobelia splendens var. atrosanguinea, Lobelia splendens var. fulgens, Lobelia splendens var. ignea, Lobelia splendens f. ignea, Lobelia texensis, Rapuntium cardinale, Rapuntium coccineum, Rapuntium cordigerum, Rapuntium fulgens, Rapuntium gramineum, Rapuntium longifolium, Rapuntium splendens, Tupa ignescens |
| Geographical Origin | Horticultural cultivar. Type species from the Americas |
| Cultivation | Full sun, tolerates some shade. Moist fertile soil. Cut back after flowering. Keep warm and dry-ish during winter with a thick mulch |
| Eventual Height | 1.2m |
| Eventual Spread | 40cm |
| Hardiness | Hardy herbaceous perennial. Mulch in winter |
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