This low45growing evergreen shrub produces a profusion of fluffy lilac45blue flowers in late spring and early summer and holds a prestigious rhs award of garden merit native to coastal california ceanothus thyrsiflorus var repens makes a brilliant addition to the front of borders or rock gardens where it creates dense drought45tolerant groundcover creeping blueblossom also looks superb as a patio feature in a large container where the stems will naturally cascade over the sides