The Blue Shades Aubrieta (also known as Rock Cress)  is a hardy, evergreen perennial plant that flowers mid to late spring. It prefers full sun and medium water.

It is very adaptable to soils, likes a pH of 6 to 8, grows 150 cm (6 in) high in 4 to 5 years and has a moderate spread rate to  50 cm (18 in). It is very frost hardy accepting temperature to minus 25 deg C.

Flowers are cruciform in shape and in the wild form come in all shades of mauve, pink, blue and occasionally white. The seeds offered have a stable blue shade flower and make a colourful carpet in all types of soil.