Awe-inspiring clouds of light blue plumbago climb one trellised wall.

An immense Mediterranean stone urn surrounded by blue plumbago and red hibiscus sits at one entrance.

Their airy rooms open to perennial beds of blue plumbago, spikes of salvia, silvery lavender and roses.

Wild four-o'clocks and blue plumbago obscure the fences that mark property; the limbs of the oak bend so low they force the passerby to bow his head.

Plumbago auriculata (common names blue plumbago, Cape plumbago or Cape leadwort), syn.

In the centrepiece, yellow English roses from the gardens of Groote Schuur, and of course mister Rhodes' favourite flowers, the lovely blue plumbago blossom.

He took no notice of the first unseasonal flush of blue plumbago blooms beside the path, though on another morning he would have exclaimed with delight, for they were his favourite flowers.

The plantings also include camellias, tree ferns, creeping fig, yaupon and dahoon holly, Asiatic jasmine, justicia, crinum and spider lily, monstera, wax myrtle, date and sabal palm, papyrus, philodendron, blue plumbago, and horsetail rush (Juncaceae).

Sometimes they come to the pots of blue plumbago on the steps of the deck, but their favorite haunt is clearly the trumpet vine that has climbed 75 feet into the top branches of an old juniper tree, which it adorns with myriad deep-throated and waxy blossoms of exuberant orange.

Plumbago auriculata (syn.

A. The graceful cape plumbago (Plumbago auriculata) is a South African native that is not a true vine, but more of a spreading or trailing shrub that can grow 10 feet tall.

Others note that on some species (Plumbago auriculata), small, crawling insects have been trapped in the Plumbagos mucilage, which supports the conclusion that these tentacles could have evolved to exclude crawling insects and favor flying pollinators for greater seed dispersal or perhaps for protection against crawling insect predators.