With its long flowering period and compact habit ceanothus 39marie bleu39 is ideal for rockeries cottage gardens and wildlife gardens where it will attract pollinating insects this neat rounded specimen forms a good ground cover or low hedging glossy green deciduous foliage cloaks its well45branched stems throughout the summer a haze of lilac blue flowers appears from july to september followed by attractive red seed capsules that extend the season of interest well into the au