PlantSowGrow
How to plant and care for Bacopa
Chaenostoma cordatum
🌸 Flower
🌱 Grown each year
Trailing stems covered in tiny white flowers all summer — a reliable, self-cleaning filler that spills over the edges of baskets and pots.
When to plant and care for it
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Plant
Flowers
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Bacopa: what it needs
- Light
- Part shade · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Never let it dry out or it drops its flowers
- Soil
- Multipurpose compost or fertile soil
- Spacing
- 20 cm
- Height
- 10 cm, trails 45 cm
- In pots
- Grows well in containers
- Feeding
- High-potash liquid feed weekly
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 9–11
Step by step
- Mid March – early April · 5 weeks before the last spring frost
Pot Up Plug Plants
Pot plugs into 9 cm pots of multipurpose compost as soon as they arrive and grow them on somewhere bright and frost-free.
- Mid April · 4 days after the last spring frost
Harden Off
Stand plants outside by day for 7–10 days before planting out.
- Late April – mid May · 2 weeks after the last spring frost
Plant Out
Plant into pots, baskets or borders 20 cm apart once frosts are over. Water in well.
- 14–35 days after “Plant Out” · Mid May – early June
First Flowers — Keep Feeding
Feed weekly with a high-potash feed and snip off faded flowers to keep them coming. Take a photo for your journal!
- Mid October – early November · around the first autumn frost
End of Season
When frost blackens the plants, pull them up for the compost heap.
