It sometimes takes a while before you can nail the ID of a NOID. In November '11 I saw some pictures of the flowers of 'Blue Wedgwood' along with a comment about the short scapes on them, that made me doubt my initial ID of this NOID in question. I kept going back and forth between the shots of mine, the pix in the HL and the posting on the forum and while I became certain I had incorrectly identified mine, it didn't bring me any closer to the correct ID. That is until I saw some pictures mid-November '11 of a freshly leafed-out 'Hadspen Blue' on Hostapix from a poster in New Zealand. As soon as I saw that picture I realized "THAT'S IT"! I'll leave my original comments in place, if for no other reason than to illustrate how long it can sometimes take to correctly identify a NOID, it was 3 years for this one for the 'DUH' moment.

This is one of the ones I acquired in July/08 and as with most I received that day, there no longer was a legible tag with the original plant and the guessing game started immediately. It wasn't until much later in the year that I stumbled across this cultivar and I said to myself "This looks rather familiar". I don't have many shots of it, only some close-ups of some of the leaves. Next year, 2009, will hopefully bring additional growth and fuller plants to allow me to verify my guess.

For 2009 the plant initially was sitting in full sun and became hot enough at one point for the glaucous wax to begin melting, as you can see from the green patches on some of the leaves in this picture. It has since been moved to an area with mostly shade, it has put on additional growth, and is starting to produce scapes, including a fasciated one.