Ladybells to Grace Your Gardenlovely blue flowers
Adenophora is a plant I tried due to the recommendations of the White Flower Farm catalogue. Also commonly called “Ladybells”, an apt appellation due to its graceful lavender blue bells on slender stems, I have enjoyed this long blooming flowering perennial for many years in my garden.
The plant, Adenophora confusa of the family...
Ceratostigma plumbaginoidesplumbago
One plant that I really appreciate at the end of summer is the bright blue flowering plant sometimes known as plumbago, or leadwort, whose Latin name is Ceratostigma plumbaginoides. It has slowly grown on me, a plant that works as a ground cover, which shows up a bit late- making it ideal over spring blooming bulbs. I have grown it mainly in partial sun in the protection of...
A Cold Climate Hydrangea
Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Endless Summer’ blooms on both new and old wood
The color depends on soil pH. My neutral soil produces the blue-pink pictured. Acid soils give a more blue bloom, and alkaline soils will tend to give more pink to the flowers.
I coaxed the mophead and the lacecap hydrangea varieties along with meager success in my garden, so when I saw the promises of...
The balloon flower decorates the July garden
When the Platycodons bloom in a midsummer garden they sport pastel balloon buds that burst into open stars of satiny blue, pink, or white. I think I like the blue hue the best. They are slow to break growth in the spring so keep that in mind while grubbing around in the spring garden. That is one reason to give them a place with spring blooming bulbs where one is less...
While color-themed gardens intrigue in the planning stages, they can be a bit difficult to pull off. One drawback is the self-limiting nature of it… there are so many plants that attract our attention and to reduce them to only one color is quite a task. Then, next, the color blue is not a common one in nature, perhaps as an offset to all that sky. Finally, there is the color itself. Colors have visual and...
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