Blue is a soothing and a meditative color. If you’re like me and want to add some blue to your garden here are some suggestions.
I adore blue flowers. In our garden at present we have bluebells coming up. They are a simple old fashioned but charming flower.
Plumbago is one of my favorite blue flowering plants. This is a sprawling type of shrub, so for that reason it is best grown against a fence or in a corner. It gets smothered with summer sky blue flowers for much of the year. Ours, we have three, are not currently flowering but will start again shortly and then flower or months. I often use them when flowering for cut flowers in a small vase for the dining table, as they flower so prolifically I can pick them and you can’t even see where I’ve taken them from. Plumbago will attract bees to your garden. So it’s good near a vegetable garden.
Cornflowers are brilliant blue, but be careful where you plant them as they can become straggly too. They make good cut flowers. One time I remember my husband buying me cornflowers because he knows how much I love blue flowers. They also come in white and pink, but to me the whole point of cornflowers is that they are blue.
True Blue sage is that amazing royal blue. This is quite different to the sage used in cooking. Rosemary also comes in a brilliant blue flowering variety in that same royal blue shade.
Delphiniums and lupines are two other blue flowers, though they do come in pink, cream and white as well. But my thought is when you can have blue, why settle for the other colors? This is one of the reasons I don’t but mixed trays of seedlings or packets of seeds. Invariably I end up with too many white and they then get thrown out. I’d rather buy mine all the one color, or for example if I was buying petunias I might by a tray in blue and purple shades only. The same with lupines or delphiniums.
Join me next time for giving your garden the blues.
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