>When I lived in the Monterey Bay Area of California in the 2000’s I fell in love with the Ceanothus. Like Jane said we do have a native pink type on the east coast, but I fell in love with that blue. I’m back in New York State now (zone 5b/6a) and I just ordered a cross of an East and West type: C. americanus and C. coeruleus called: Ceanothus x delileanus ‘Gloire de Versailles’ I can tell you what happened to it here... There is a genuinely hardy blue-flowered ceanothus, semi-desert species, though, and not in the trade. The white-flowered form has been here for twenty years, survived a night or two of -10F, and in the last few winters nowhere near that cold, just endless frozenness. It never rains in the winter in Denver. https://swcoloradowildflowers.com/Blue%20Purple%20… Bob Nold Denver, Colorado _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…