Description: Thick, glaucous leaves. Palest chartreuse to creamy white leaf centres with a dark grey-green margin; a lighter green area appears in the leaf where the white and green meet.
Size: Mini (6"w x 2"h)
Origin: tissue cultured sport of H. 'Baby Bunting'
Flowers: Bell-shaped lavender flowers in early July on white scapes.
Added to garden: Spring 2004
This picture taken July 29. All of my 'Baby Bunting' family got waterlogged in 2009 when the drainage failed in a container and none of them have done as well since then. This one is struggling, but I have hope that it will gradually make a comeback.
This one has been up and down for me - a couple of good years when first planted and then diminished for a couple of years. Comments I've heard that Pandora's Box is one of those that may grow better in a pot.......so potted it up last year- top is Aug '10 and bottom is from a week ago......
Pot gets more light and water than where it was planted previously.
Paul
Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.
I was surprised when I started visiting this forum and people considered this one tough to grow. This one was divided in half already and moved on top of that. Still doing good.
That's a gorgeous Pandora's Box. Love the flowers.
This is the only good picture I have of PB taken on June 10 this year. It's been in this location in quite a bit of shade since 2008.
The slugs really like it. The leaves look like Swiss cheese right now. I forgot to use a copper collar.
I found another pic of PB from earlier in the year (May 27). The amount of whiteness in the leaves could be the product of progress/age during the growing season ???
2015 - July 03. Two divisions of Pandora's Box. The first is a decade old and has been just barely hanging on for a long time. It has now disappeared but I've not yet checked as to whether the roots are OK.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
