This much45loved flower of the high mountains makes a great feature at home in a rockery alpine border or a container gentiana cruciata bears its intensely blue flowers at the tips of short 30cm 40123441 stems this crosswort gentian is the easiest to grow of all the gentian family and it flowers freely in dappled shade from late summer onwards the whole plant is tough and even rabbit45proof height and spread 30cm 40123441