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How to plant and care for Lungwort (Pulmonaria)
Pulmonaria officinalis 'Sissinghurst White'
🌸 Flower
🔁 Perennial
Silver-spotted leaves and white flowers from early spring — one of the first foods for queen bumblebees. Happy in shade.
When to plant and care for it
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Flowers
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Lungwort (Pulmonaria): what it needs
- Light
- Part shade · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water well until established, then in dry spells
- Soil
- Moist, humus-rich soil
- Spacing
- 45 cm
- Height
- 30 cm
- In pots
- Grows well in containers
- Feeding
- A little general feed in spring
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 3–8
Step by step
- On planting day
Plant
Plant at the same depth as it was in its pot, 45 cm apart, and firm in.
- 0–1 days after “Plant”
Water In Well
Give a full can of water, then keep moist for the first few weeks while roots establish.
- 7–14 days after “Water In Well”
Mulch Around the Base
Spread 5 cm of compost or bark around the plant, keeping it off the stems.
Every year
- MarchIn Flower
Early flowers for bumblebees.
- MayTrim After Flowering
Cut the old flowered stems and leaves to the ground; a fresh, mildew-free rosette follows.
