Johnson blue geranium! I was traumatized in 1st or 2nd grade, when I showed my teacher a picture of blue flowers. She proclaimed authoritatively, "there's no such thing as blue flowers!" Crushed and confused, as my parents grew a large cutting garden with multiple blue flowers, I walked away with hurt feelings and not understanding her statement. I KNEW there were lots of different blue flowers. I was too shy to confront authority! I now always grow blue flowers, just for that ignorant teacher!
Mary Anich back in my day and in Horticulture college classes, we were told there are no real blue flowers. I disagreed because I could see it but, that’s what was told. Some flower books will say that as well. What are they thinking? Lol
My favourite color flowers BECAUSE they lean purple. It's that mix between those two colors what I love most, especially the lighter shades of blue and lilac, like the rhythmic hydrangea she showed at the end of the video
@@gardenanswer You nailed most of my favorites but here's a few I'd add to the list: Several ageratums, including 'Hawaii' and 'Blue Danube'; Echninops ritro; some pulmonarias (I have a few that have gorgeous blue flowers but I was terrible about labeling them and I don't recall which cultivar they are now); someone else mentioned Virgina bluebells, which I second; and several clematis (although, ironically, often not the ones with a blue color in the name, which always seem to lean purple). Some that come to mind are 'Princes Charles' (light blue), 'Elsa Spath' (medium blue), 'Rhapsody', and 'Ken Donson', which was true, clear blue in my garden but always looks purple in photos to me. Oh, and Ajuga 'Chocolate Chip', although the flowers don't last too long.
Here in Texas, the blue bonnet is our state flower. They grow in MASSIVE drifts along the highways here so its illegal for any maintenance to occur when they bloom. Its my favorite time of year when all the flowers can grow freely. So at any given point during the growing season, you can bet you'll see cars parked along the highways with people in ditches posing for pictures. 😂
And yet another video saved to my Zone 3 folder. So many to plant this year! I going to ask my neighbor if I can plant flowers in his yard, purely for my pleasure.
Hey Laura! I saw Blue Himalayan Poppies when I visited Alaska last year. They caught my eye from about 30' away and I actually switched the direction I was walking in to go see what it was. They are the most stunning iridescent blue you'll ever see. I've never seen any color like it. Absolutely gorgeous! If anyone can grow them its you, Laura!!!
💙💙💙 Love all your videos but especially love this one because I love all things blue! I recently retired and found that I love flower gardening, and your videos are truly inspiring and educational. I look forward to them every day. It’s so wonderful that technology has enabled you to share such positive messages and things that are good for the environment. I know it’s a lot of work, but you’re truly making a difference in this world. Thank you! 💙💙💙
Hi Laura!🙋♀️ 4 more blue flowers I have had luck w/ over here in Eugene has been: 1) Blue Flax 2) Sheep's Bit 3) Columbine Tower-LightBlue 4) Agapanthus All are also tolerable to your zone 5 (I think🤔😅)💙
Here, in central Europe the perennial Geranium 'Rozanne' is very popular. It blooms blue with a hint of purple for a very long time from July to October and has almost like ground cover growing habit. For years there was a debate if Geranium 'Jolly Bee' is the same or a different breed , but it was lately decided it's the same plant.
Last winter, my son managed to get some blue and a few white Himalayan poppies to germinate and grow in our raised bed - in the subtropics, here in Queensland, Australia. I nurtured them through our winter months until they flowered. They were quite small and straggly until they perished but now we have learned the secret of their germination and care.
This is really helpful and thank you for addressing the confusion around industry standards for “blue”. IDEA: could you continue a color series where you show varieties and the spectrum of shades for all the colors? For instance, all the shades and varieties for pink, white, yellow, etc? Not sure if you have time for this but I have a feeling a lot of people would enjoy this!
I LOVE LUPINS here in Ontario (Canada) in the northwestern region, they grow on the sides of the road like cat tails!!! People here; while they enjoy the colours, consider them almost as weeds!! I moved from Alberta where we plant them in gardens on purpose and enjoy them in all sorts of colours. Dreaming of a garden I’ll have one day that I can fill with all sorts of pretty things 😍
Bachelor buttons have been my hands down flower favorite since i was a kid visiting my grandma. She had a drift of them just as you went up to her door and i always love the variety of color.
Crazy that just yesterday I thought to myself, “I have GOT to find a resource for finding out which flowers actually bloom a true blue hue rather than a purple flower that has blue in the name.”Then, here you are with your list of exactly what I was looking for! I absolutely LOVE blue flowers. Blue hydrangeas are my favorite of all time. I live in the South, so with a little soil amendment, we can grow beautiful ones. Thank you so much for creating this video! I had to save it because I’m sure I’ll be needing to refer to it periodically as I fill my flowerbeds!
Love my Plumbago! It is densely covered in electric blue flowers all summer and much of the fall in Northern Utah 5b, finally drops flowers and turns dark red. I always get complements on how pretty it is ♥
I’m obsessed with blue flowers and have been planting as many as I can in my garden for a few years now. Thank you for this video! My favorite one so far!
Broken Butterfly unfortunately it isn’t only blue flowers in my garden. I would LOVE that. I have some photos of each blooming at different times but no video. I’ve got lobelia, Johnson’s blue geraniums, Brunnera, spiderwort, twist and shout hydrangea, endless summer hydrangea and lungwort. I also have Jessie Starflower, iris and balloon flowers (though they’re more purple than true blue but they compliment the blue flowers well!)
You must have read my mind!!! I want to plant a blue and orange theme this year...my daughters fall wedding colors and we’re hosting the rehearsal dinner at our home. 🥰
Booooooring! Just kidding. Heh. :) And I really don't think she has room on that side of her house for a moonflower garden, considering she wanted the walkway to be three-feet-wide to accommodate her cart, but we'll see. :)
@@Bamboo4U2 boring yes.... Unless your a new Gardner who wants all white flowers everywhere and loves the idea of mixing bulb.. Annuals and perennials for a full show all season.. 😉.
@@nikolemotsinger2800 I have depression and the idea of an "all white" garden not only bores me to tears, it appears cold, stale and sterile to me but to each their own. If it brings you happiness, you do you, boo. Peace.
@@Bamboo4U2 I am with you on that one. White is good mixed with colours but all white is not for me. That said, Laura has such a huge garden that I am loving the challenge (kind of like when she has to put together a christmas tree with restrictions) and I can't wait to see how she can make it work....I may even change my mind about all white ;) And I love lists of plants like this (by colour, seasonal interests, light conditions etc...) it's so helpful for us newbies out there who have a colour theme or particular need in the garden.
@@melaniea8301 and @Jake Jones, big swaths of white in the very hot part of summer are cooling to the brain! Tricks the brain into thinking "snow," and makes one feel cooler!
Thank you so much for this! I do love blue flowers and grow many of the plants you talked about. I’ve never had any luck with the poppies, so I gave up on those. Another true blue flower I have that is so dependable and beautiful for me is the balloon flower (platycodon grandiflorus). It is a species of herbaceous flowering perennial in the Campanulaceae family. The blooms are super interesting as they start in a balloon shape and then open into a wonderful true blue (for me) flower. It is a zone 3 - 9. I grow mine in a morning sun/afternoon shade location here in zone 8b/9a and have had great success! Kids love the blooms and how they evolve into a flower! Thanks again for this video! My list keeps growing! 😂💚🌿
Laura, I love that you included Lithodora Grace Ward! It is one of my favourites! Stunning cobalt blue and very long lived even in my Denver metro garden on the prairie. East side is perfect for them. I also like geranium Brookside Blue. Very nice. If you cut it back after the firstbloom, you'll get another.
I just found you a year ago. I just love your relaxed "talking to a fellow gardener" style. Most of all how plants perform for you. Although I'm in Ohio and zone 6 we all know plants do what they do so your advice is always superb. Container ideas are SO welcomed. Thanks sweetie for your channel.
I grown Virginia Blue Belles. We had a home along a shady creek and they are late spring bloomers. I moved several in a shady area of our house. Beautiful and true blue!!
I bought 3 pretty good size pots of blue lobelias and 3 white Shasta daisies to mix. They are the most beautiful, strikingly blue flowers I've ever seen. I think blue and white is so pretty together. The way you did yours with the white hydrangeas was beautiful!
When i lived in Austin Tx i grew the bluebonnets. A local nursery that specialized in native plants had them in 4" pots and i transplanted them. They were beautiful. But I've read that they are hard to grow from seed and don't like to be transplanted. I was new to gardening so maybe it was just dumb luck on my part! Other varieties of lupine are supposed to be easier.
Your blue hydrangea envy was hilarious! When I walk through my neighbourhood here in the Netherlands I often see this blue flowered campanula popping out of the tiniest cracks in the sidewalk. I looked it up and it seems to be Campanula poscharskyana/Serbian bellflower/Trailing bellflower. They bloom for such a long time! On google images it looks purple but here in my area they are blue.
I agree with the blue hydrangea envy... and I'm feeling it too. I have a few that I'm attempting to get to turn blue here in Western Kansas. Jury will be out for a few years and we'll see if I get any change. I'd even be happy with purple.
Possibly the same soil factor that gives you the lush blue hydrangeas others have to just be jealous of, or work really hard to overcome in their soil.
my favorite annual is black and blue salvia - the hummingbirds love it :) it came in the house one winter in a large container and bloomed off and on all winter for me - sweet Christmas addition of colour
GREAT - Our home is painted a beautiful shade of green and any blue shrub, flower, banner, looks so pretty against it. I listened for the magic zone 9 and made a big list of plants to try. We have mostly shade, hot, humid weather with a fog of white flies for interest. LOL Really appreciate this post.
I am always looking for blue flowers for my garden. I love blue flowers. I have used a few of the ones your mentioned, but now I have a few others I can look for. Thanks for the great info. Tab
Love my iris reticula. The color is amazing. I live in southern New Hampshire and our winter has been milder than usual. My snowdrops have been blooming for the past week. First time in 38 years that they have bloomed so early. I love watching your channel and getting my daily dose of gardening.
Laura, you should look into the Delphinium Highlander series. They are beautiful, fully double delphiniums that don’t require staking. Something really cool about them, is the fact that they are sterile so they don’t produce seeds. I have some in my garden and I can’t wait to see them again in the spring!
Great coffee with Laura video and more plants for the list! Thank you for going over these as it's so fun to see particular flowers and hear about how you have experienced them growing.
I came upon a couple Blue Plumbago bushes in a Westlake center, I've never seen them as bushes, they didn't look so good but i grabbed them up and planted them and gave them a ton of love. Oh my! Beautiful!!
The truth is she'd be able to get blue blooms in a container if she used aluminum phosphate on them and (from what I've heard) it takes more than one application (in the autumn, I believe, before they set their buds).
While I've not grown them in our our yard, the Bluebonnets here in Texas are spectacular. If you and Aaron visit the State of Texas be sure to come in the early spring so you can see them. Especially love Ennis and Brenham areas.
I love your videos Laura. Love your enthusiasm for plants and your down to earth attitude. You cover sooooo many topics and your videos are so informative with the information delivered so nicely. Thank you for all that you share.
First off, love this series of your favorite plants. We are currently in the architecture phase of a new garden, and these vlogs are a fantastic help in curating our plant list. As for blue lupine, yes, we grew them in our Western WA garden with tremendous success-in two years they were 3x3 plus, and had stunning foliage and blooms for much of the season. They reseeded aggressively, but that was actually welcomed on our 10-acre parcel and probably because they were in a woodland setting (which is their natural habitat).
Hi, Laura Good morning , I can help with the Borage. They primarily bloom blue once in a while they throw pink or a white bloom, 5 years ago I planted an entire 1/4 oz packet. They are RAMPANT self seeder, but Pollinators ADORE them! This has given me an idea of what to do with a couple spaces I was still unsure about, so thank you for the true blue reminder!I think Himlayan poppies are going to be my choice!Blessings of Bounty and May Your Gardens and your Life always Bring You Joy , Inspiration and Abundance!" - Hope
I had a blue delphinium in my garden last year that never stopped blooming until we had a severe frost. It was gorgeous, don't remember the name right now but I have the tag in my shed and plan on getting a few more.
This is so funny and spot on, just yesterday I wrote "something blue" on my balcony planning list for the upcoming summer! Thank you for the inspo once again!
Blue and purple flowers are my visual favorites (especially irises), but white flowers have such a rich deep scent in the spring and summer. Intoxicating.
Laura, I love these educational videos. Although you are so humble about your knowledge, to a novice like myself, I love your teaching style. You mentioned in a previous video that you are working on a decorating project in your home, and you were going to bring us along; is that still coming? I love all of your styles of videos, and I love when you show us all elements of your creative process, to include cooking, floral arrangements, and decor. 😊 PS Little Benjamin is so adorable, and by far your best creation yet!
I love all of these!! Getting my list pretty long!! I have blue asters that I enjoy especially in September!! That is when I get ready for fall and when I get to enjoy my garden the most!!
Great video! After a few years in my house, I’ve decided that blue will be dominant in my planting scheme. I’m starting with trellised sweet pea blue butterfly on both sides of my front porch, rosemary and Mexican bush sage. Thanks so much for all the ideas!
So no sooner than i left that previous comment, my seeds for the Himalayan poppy arrived!Not even kidding, This universe of ours is so boss!This is such a great resource as all of you videos are Laura, But i too have a little space at church I want to do a red,white and blue patriotic bed and this was invaluable in my planning it out, so Thank you!😊🦋🦋
Just popping in to say THANK YOU for helping all of us make sense of our gardens!!! Especially during Covid. I just started some delphinium and zinnia seeds. I planted some peonies today too. I’m just so happy!! The bumbles are loving 💓
I have several Rhythmic Blue Hydrangeas 💙💙💙 in my zone 6 western NY garden, and I have to work hard at keeping them dark blue. They are my absolute favorite hydrangea!! Adding several more this spring!!! Thank you for this video, Laura!!( thanks for all of your very informative videos!) Always a highlight of my day to learn new things from you!! 💙💙💙💙💙
I got a Gentiana acaulis Undulatifolia last year that has the most gorgeous blue flowers. I could stare into them for hours. It is a low growing perennial - about 3 inches tall - and it has been evergreen for me throughout the winter (north of Seattle). The trumpet shaped blue flowers are about 3 inches long and about 2 inches across and stand almost straight up. I can see the new flower buds starting to form and I can hardly wait for it to bloom again this year.
Greetings! Three more blue flowering perennials are Blue Heron or Blue Porcelain Corydalis (shade, part shade) and True Blue Gentiana (sun to part sun).
I see that you containerized your Rose of Sharon bush. Great Idea!!! They will send out roots and become very invasive if you don't watch out! My first hand experience
The newer varieties don't do that but i also have the old ones and yes they regularly self seed. I've been on a mission since i moved in this house to get them under control.
Love blues 💙 in my garden! Our master bedroom is soft blues and white and I can see the endless summer hydrangea hedge from the windows. I'm going to give lobelia another try, I had given up on growing it because it always fried. So many beautiful blue flowers to add to my list, thanks! I keep my gardening notebook nearby whenever I'm watching your videos to write down plants and care tips to remember. Every year my garden just keeps getting better and better!
Wow what a coincidence! I’m planting a purple & blue garden around my grandma’s mailbox! So thanks for doing some of my blue flower research for me! :)
Uy...planting bee-attracting plants around your grandmother's mailbox? Do you hate her letter carrier or something? I've never understood this practice. Someone has to approach that box, open it and insert mail. Please consider that. Some of them might even be allergic to bee stings.
Ageratum or floss flower is my “go to” annual filler in front of my shrubs. I buy Hawaii Blue. I’ve had strangers pull in my drive to ask me what they are. In mass they are beautiful! Thanks for all your inspiration. I plan to try some you mentioned.
I love taking trips to the UK, it's so great seeing a whole country that seems to collectively revere gardening so highly. It was my first time in my last visit seeing both the Himalayan blue poppy (in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden) and blue blossom Ceanothus in full bloom. I had no idea the latter was a Western US native. I bet you could do so well by this one, I was floored by these huge shrubs bursting with true blue flowers. The poppies... I think they might need to be potted and coddled, I don't think high summers in most of the continental US favor it much.
I’m loving these sit down videos for this time of year. I’m in zone 10 and am starting to plant. I go to the nursery with such long lists now!! After this I’ll spend the week dreaming up a blue border!! Thank you soooo much!!
I've grown Lupins very successfully in zone 6. I started from seed (in a 72 cell seed starter greenhouse) they did not bloom until the second year in my garden, but the wait was worth it! I have a native sandy loam soil mix and I think that helped them grow to perfection.
Oh, shoot, I'm growing them from seed this year, my very first year growing anything from seed with grow lights, and I read that if you start them early, they should bloom their first year. I really hope mine do. Well, first I'll be amazed if ANYTHING I grow from seed actually turns into a plant! But, yeah, I was kind of counting on the lupines, bought five different colors of them. :o
The “Heavenly Blue” morning glory, for me here in SW Michigan zone 5 is a nightmare...beautiful true blue for sure. I planted ONE around 2005. I now have to pluck out seedlings of that original plant every year - and they are not true to the parent plant - most come up purple. However, last year they started to throw up some vines with lovely pure pink blooms. But I don’t recommend anyone planting morning glory in growing conditions like mine. I do grow forget-me-nots, Scilla, chinodoxa, delphiniums, nigella...oh, and I planted “Delft Blue” hyacinths this year that appear to be a true light blue. I also would count ageratum in as a blue annual. I love lobelia but it never lasts a full season for me - not sure what it is l, maybe too much water, or heat and humidity?
My neighbor did the same, now we both struggle in our flower beds (and he is quite far from my property). Morning glory is spreading everywhere and it's a very invasive here (zone 6).
Yeah i made same mistake about 5 years ago now they come up everywhere as purple and pink and purple with pink stripes. Surprised there not on the invasive list here in Southern Michigan they grow literally any where the worse the soil the more they flower.
So happy you included Borage. I love, love it and they are such beautiful flowers. Mine does multiply (not too aggressively) and have shared with friends.
We had lots of blue in our gardens growing up. I had a delphinium hedge. Took a few years to establish because they are biannual, but stunning! Yes they are called 'magic fountain'. Xoxo... I had no trouble growing the blue hydrangea at my house in nw CT without fussing with the soil. Nice! They got so big they took over the walkway.
Black and Blue Salvia is one of my favorite plants. I'm zone 9b and they are spectacular here. Full sun, very hardy, and they put on a show every year.
I had no idea that Plumbagos' leaves turn color. 😍 Wow! Just planted a few, and it will be nice to see for a change of scenery where all the trees are either still green or bald. This has been a very interesting video. I love blue flowers......true blue flowers, that is.
Bluebonnets are so wonderful. They self seed. Their seeds actually make a pop sound. I am from TX and the Bluebbonet is our state flower. They also now have a maroon Bluebonnet.
Omg I want them all!!! But alas, I am zone 4. =( I love ALL blue flowers as it is my favorite color! Some blue flowers that do well in my area (sandy soil; wet springs; hot, humid summers; -22° winter) are Baptista or False Indigo, Catmint, hyacynth, and Russian Sage, that I can think of off the top of my head. I want to get white hydrangeas this year and those Supertunia Indigo Charm and Lobelia ARE gorgeous with them... totally agree with you, Laura! That has got to be my favorite combination ever! I also have a couple walnut trees that are begging for some of those Scilla Siborica. And that Brunnera, how cool is that?! This was an awesome video, although I wish Laura had mentioned the zones of each first because I was writing them and all their features and at the end of some she would mention the zone (if she even mentioned it) so I was like, "oh... well, that one won't work for me!" But I very much appreciated all the information!
Laura ,you share so much info , I wondered if you use cue cards or if you remember all the info . Any way I love it. I’m learning that I have mostly old varieties and wasn’t aware of such a thing till I started watching your channel . 👍
I have a dream of creating a whole garden with only blue, pink, and white shades of flowers and plants. It'd be sooo cool!
Johnson blue geranium!
I was traumatized in 1st or 2nd grade, when I showed my teacher a picture of blue flowers. She proclaimed authoritatively, "there's no such thing as blue flowers!"
Crushed and confused, as my parents grew a large cutting garden with multiple blue flowers, I walked away with hurt feelings and not understanding her statement. I KNEW there were lots of different blue flowers. I was too shy to confront authority!
I now always grow blue flowers, just for that ignorant teacher!
Oh, wow, we never forget those early wounds, do we. I would have been too shy to say anything also. : )
Mary Anich back in my day and in Horticulture college classes, we were told there are no real blue flowers. I disagreed because I could see it but, that’s what was told. Some flower books will say that as well. What are they thinking? Lol
@@3929Cindy Yes, I've never understood the no blue flowers thing.
Mary Anich ... 🤗💙 👕 🌊👖🧢🧵🦋🐬🐳 Hugs to you. 💙
I remember all the mean little things teachers did when I was little, you're not alone. That was wrong. The garden your parents had sounds Amazing!😄💙
My favorite color flowers (even if they lean purple)! Great roundup.
My favourite color flowers BECAUSE they lean purple. It's that mix between those two colors what I love most, especially the lighter shades of blue and lilac, like the rhythmic hydrangea she showed at the end of the video
What blue flowers would you add to the list? I want to try more!
@@gardenanswer You nailed most of my favorites but here's a few I'd add to the list: Several ageratums, including 'Hawaii' and 'Blue Danube'; Echninops ritro; some pulmonarias (I have a few that have gorgeous blue flowers but I was terrible about labeling them and I don't recall which cultivar they are now); someone else mentioned Virgina bluebells, which I second; and several clematis (although, ironically, often not the ones with a blue color in the name, which always seem to lean purple). Some that come to mind are 'Princes Charles' (light blue), 'Elsa Spath' (medium blue), 'Rhapsody', and 'Ken Donson', which was true, clear blue in my garden but always looks purple in photos to me. Oh, and Ajuga 'Chocolate Chip', although the flowers don't last too long.
@@TheImpatientGardener Wow, that Blue Danube Ageratum is gorgeous! Just looked it up, nice suggestion
@@gardenanswer I just could add butterfly pea, gives nice dark blue to garden and light blue to drinks
I love blue 💙💙💙. I love your videos also. Best gardening channel.
Here in Texas, the blue bonnet is our state flower. They grow in MASSIVE drifts along the highways here so its illegal for any maintenance to occur when they bloom. Its my favorite time of year when all the flowers can grow freely. So at any given point during the growing season, you can bet you'll see cars parked along the highways with people in ditches posing for pictures. 😂
Do bluebonnets grow in Oklajoma? Are they invasive? Thank you.
I was one of those tourists last year 😅😂😂😂 I loved the road trips there! Happy memories including the stops at Buc’ees and the Czechoslovakian shop
Hello from Seabrook, TX - LOVE bluebonnet season!
Can you do a video on flowers that bloom all season long?
Great ideea
It’s depends on what zone you’re in.
Yes plzzz
And yet another video saved to my Zone 3 folder. So many to plant this year! I going to ask my neighbor if I can plant flowers in his yard, purely for my pleasure.
Hey Laura! I saw Blue Himalayan Poppies when I visited Alaska last year. They caught my eye from about 30' away and I actually switched the direction I was walking in to go see what it was. They are the most stunning iridescent blue you'll ever see. I've never seen any color like it. Absolutely gorgeous! If anyone can grow them its you, Laura!!!
I'm growing them 🤠💎
I grew them in my Seattle garden. They were tough to grow , but so, so, so worth it.
💙💙💙 Love all your videos but especially love this one because I love all things blue! I recently retired and found that I love flower gardening, and your videos are truly inspiring and educational. I look forward to them every day. It’s so wonderful that technology has enabled you to share such positive messages and things that are good for the environment. I know it’s a lot of work, but you’re truly making a difference in this world. Thank you! 💙💙💙
I love flowers of all colors but blue flowers fascinate me.🌸🌸🌸♥️
Hi Laura!🙋♀️
4 more blue flowers I have had luck w/ over here in Eugene has been:
1) Blue Flax
2) Sheep's Bit
3) Columbine Tower-LightBlue
4) Agapanthus
All are also tolerable to your zone 5 (I think🤔😅)💙
Here, in central Europe the perennial Geranium 'Rozanne' is very popular. It blooms blue with a hint of purple for a very long time from July to October and has almost like ground cover growing habit. For years there was a debate if Geranium 'Jolly Bee' is the same or a different breed , but it was lately decided it's the same plant.
Last winter, my son managed to get some blue and a few white Himalayan poppies to germinate and grow in our raised bed - in the subtropics, here in Queensland, Australia. I nurtured them through our winter months until they flowered. They were quite small and straggly until they perished but now we have learned the secret of their germination and care.
This is really helpful and thank you for addressing the confusion around industry standards for “blue”.
IDEA: could you continue a color series where you show varieties and the spectrum of shades for all the colors? For instance, all the shades and varieties for pink, white, yellow, etc? Not sure if you have time for this but I have a feeling a lot of people would enjoy this!
Blue butterfly pea is stunningly blue
I have that as a tea, and the blue is absolutely beautiful!!
I LOVE LUPINS here in Ontario (Canada) in the northwestern region, they grow on the sides of the road like cat tails!!! People here; while they enjoy the colours, consider them almost as weeds!! I moved from Alberta where we plant them in gardens on purpose and enjoy them in all sorts of colours. Dreaming of a garden I’ll have one day that I can fill with all sorts of pretty things 😍
Bachelor buttons have been my hands down flower favorite since i was a kid visiting my grandma. She had a drift of them just as you went up to her door and i always love the variety of color.
Campanulas - gorgeous and so many varieties. Bonus long bloom period!!
Crazy that just yesterday I thought to myself, “I have GOT to find a resource for finding out which flowers actually bloom a true blue hue rather than a purple flower that has blue in the name.”Then, here you are with your list of exactly what I was looking for! I absolutely LOVE blue flowers. Blue hydrangeas are my favorite of all time. I live in the South, so with a little soil amendment, we can grow beautiful ones. Thank you so much for creating this video! I had to save it because I’m sure I’ll be needing to refer to it periodically as I fill my flowerbeds!
Bachelor buttons dry well and keep that lovely blue as they dry.
all flowers are beautiful, marvellous and breath taking.
Love my Plumbago! It is densely covered in electric blue flowers all summer and much of the fall in Northern Utah 5b, finally drops flowers and turns dark red. I always get complements on how pretty it is ♥
So happy to see this. I could have blue flowers everywhere, & love it forever. Thanks for the onscreen pics. Very helpful. AWESOME. 💙💜
I’m obsessed with blue flowers and have been planting as many as I can in my garden for a few years now. Thank you for this video! My favorite one so far!
A garden with only blue flowering plants😯
Can you please post a video? I would love to see your garden 😊
Broken Butterfly unfortunately it isn’t only blue flowers in my garden. I would LOVE that. I have some photos of each blooming at different times but no video. I’ve got lobelia, Johnson’s blue geraniums, Brunnera, spiderwort, twist and shout hydrangea, endless summer hydrangea and lungwort. I also have Jessie Starflower, iris and balloon flowers (though they’re more purple than true blue but they compliment the blue flowers well!)
@@brooksstudiosgarden1615 Try Campanula (bellflower) and Convulvolus Tricolor Blue Ensign.
Spanish blue bells, zone 3-8, grows in almost any light, comeback every year. Beautiful.
You must have read my mind!!! I want to plant a blue and orange theme this year...my daughters fall wedding colors and we’re hosting the rehearsal dinner at our home. 🥰
How exciting! You’ll have to post pics as I’m sure the wedding will be BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Nicole Stroh that’s sounds beautiful
I would love to see a version of this video with white blooms... Especially with the upcoming moon garden your planning.
Booooooring! Just kidding. Heh. :) And I really don't think she has room on that side of her house for a moonflower garden, considering she wanted the walkway to be three-feet-wide to accommodate her cart, but we'll see. :)
@@Bamboo4U2 boring yes.... Unless your a new Gardner who wants all white flowers everywhere and loves the idea of mixing bulb.. Annuals and perennials for a full show all season.. 😉.
@@nikolemotsinger2800 I have depression and the idea of an "all white" garden not only bores me to tears, it appears cold, stale and sterile to me but to each their own. If it brings you happiness, you do you, boo. Peace.
@@Bamboo4U2 I am with you on that one. White is good mixed with colours but all white is not for me. That said, Laura has such a huge garden that I am loving the challenge (kind of like when she has to put together a christmas tree with restrictions) and I can't wait to see how she can make it work....I may even change my mind about all white ;) And I love lists of plants like this (by colour, seasonal interests, light conditions etc...) it's so helpful for us newbies out there who have a colour theme or particular need in the garden.
@@melaniea8301 and @Jake Jones, big swaths of white in the very hot part of summer are cooling to the brain! Tricks the brain into thinking "snow," and makes one feel cooler!
A trick I use for flowers that are almost blue is to plant something really purple with it and that makes it look more blue.
Thank you so much for this! I do love blue flowers and grow many of the plants you talked about. I’ve never had any luck with the poppies, so I gave up on those. Another true blue flower I have that is so dependable and beautiful for me is the balloon flower (platycodon grandiflorus). It is a species of herbaceous flowering perennial in the Campanulaceae family. The blooms are super interesting as they start in a balloon shape and then open into a wonderful true blue (for me) flower. It is a zone 3 - 9. I grow mine in a morning sun/afternoon shade location here in zone 8b/9a and have had great success! Kids love the blooms and how they evolve into a flower! Thanks again for this video! My list keeps growing! 😂💚🌿
Forgot to say they come in pink and white too!
I have them around my mailbox, just love them! I get so many compliments on them! I’m in zone 5a, they get morning part shade and full afternoon sun.
I grow these quite a bit sprinkled throughout my beds but they have been here for decades maybe over a century. People love getting seeds from me.
MARIE BURTON I grow them much the same way, popped in beds or in a pot. Aren’t they always wonderful little surprises in the garden? Love them! 💙
A Sherri Hayes one of my fave flowers - it’s growing in my garden as we speak!
One of my favorite blue flowers is 'Electric Blue' penstemon. That flower is seriously the most bluest of blue, it is gorgeous. 😍
Those supertunias look purple/lavender to me. I think we all see colors a little bit differently. What looks purple to one will look blue to another.
Brenda Kirk gv û
Since my favorite color is blue, I loved this video. Love the Iris Reticulata and Scilla Siberica! Thank you for sharing them all!
Laura, I love that you included Lithodora Grace Ward! It is one of my favourites! Stunning cobalt blue and very long lived even in my Denver metro garden on the prairie. East side is perfect for them. I also like geranium Brookside Blue. Very nice. If you cut it back after the firstbloom, you'll get another.
Wow, that blue poppy is absolutely stunning! I live in Texas...bluebonnets everywhere😍, even in my 2 acre lot 🥰 I really enjoyed this video, Laura!
Jessica Nazario I’m next door in Oklahoma and can’t for the life of me grow a bluebonnet. Love them so much too.
I just found you a year ago. I just love your relaxed "talking to a fellow gardener" style. Most of all how plants perform for you. Although I'm in Ohio and zone 6 we all know plants do what they do so your advice is always superb. Container ideas are SO welcomed. Thanks sweetie for your channel.
My go to blue flower is the black blue salvia. The hummingbirds love it!
I grown Virginia Blue Belles. We had a home along a shady creek and they are late spring bloomers. I moved several in a shady area of our house. Beautiful and true blue!!
I love virginia blue bells!
I have them too! In Kansas they go dormant so I have to have something to fill in their big bear spot. But they are blue!
I bought 3 pretty good size pots of blue lobelias and 3 white Shasta daisies to mix. They are the most beautiful, strikingly blue flowers I've ever seen. I think blue and white is so pretty together. The way you did yours with the white hydrangeas was beautiful!
When i lived in Austin Tx i grew the bluebonnets. A local nursery that specialized in native plants had them in 4" pots and i transplanted them. They were beautiful. But I've read that they are hard to grow from seed and don't like to be transplanted. I was new to gardening so maybe it was just dumb luck on my part! Other varieties of lupine are supposed to be easier.
You just never know until you try and you got lucky.
Your blue hydrangea envy was hilarious!
When I walk through my neighbourhood here in the Netherlands I often see this blue flowered campanula popping out of the tiniest cracks in the sidewalk. I looked it up and it seems to be Campanula poscharskyana/Serbian bellflower/Trailing bellflower. They bloom for such a long time! On google images it looks purple but here in my area they are blue.
I've grown this and it looks blue not purple.
I agree with the blue hydrangea envy... and I'm feeling it too. I have a few that I'm attempting to get to turn blue here in Western Kansas. Jury will be out for a few years and we'll see if I get any change. I'd even be happy with purple.
I love the Blue campanula. I also like the Sheraton but it was almost invasive in my garden!
Possibly the same soil factor that gives you the lush blue hydrangeas others have to just be jealous of, or work really hard to overcome in their soil.
Yup, hilarious pout
Blue My Mind has been a perennial for me in zone 9b. I love it and is one of my favorites!!!
I'm jealous. That's one of the most beautiful blue-blooming plants I've seen, especially the Proven Winners "Blue My Mind."
Jake Jones It really is and is one of about 8 Proven Winners plants I can find here.
Blue flowers are my favorite.
I love pastel blue statice--so pretty in bouquets, dries true to color, likes full sun and easy to grow!
I love blue flowers! I would create an all-blue garden if I could.
my favorite annual is black and blue salvia - the hummingbirds love it :) it came in the house one winter in a large container and bloomed off and on all winter for me - sweet Christmas addition of colour
GREAT - Our home is painted a beautiful shade of green and any blue shrub, flower, banner, looks so pretty against it. I listened for the magic zone 9 and made a big list of plants to try. We have mostly shade, hot, humid weather with a fog of white flies for interest. LOL Really appreciate this post.
I am always looking for blue flowers for my garden. I love blue flowers. I have used a few of the ones your mentioned, but now I have a few others I can look for. Thanks for the great info. Tab
Good morn to ya !!😄 blues some of my faves😊👒🌹
Sunday morning with coffee and Laura!!😊
Sunday afternoon with coffee and Laura! Just came home from work! 😊
Love my iris reticula. The color is amazing. I live in southern New Hampshire and our winter has been milder than usual. My snowdrops have been blooming for the past week. First time in 38 years that they have bloomed so early. I love watching your channel and getting my daily dose of gardening.
Laura, you should look into the Delphinium Highlander series. They are beautiful, fully double delphiniums that don’t require staking. Something really cool about them, is the fact that they are sterile so they don’t produce seeds. I have some in my garden and I can’t wait to see them again in the spring!
Great coffee with Laura video and more plants for the list! Thank you for going over these as it's so fun to see particular flowers and hear about how you have experienced them growing.
I came upon a couple Blue Plumbago bushes in a Westlake center, I've never seen them as bushes, they didn't look so good but i grabbed them up and planted them and gave them a ton of love. Oh my! Beautiful!!
Oh my goodness, I love these videos! Every time I see you’ve posted one I don’t start watching until I have paper and pen ready, so many plants ❤️
Laura I would trade out every blue hydrangea I have to be able to grow roses like you do!!!!!! Thanks for the list of blues! Love the variety! Xxxx
The truth is she'd be able to get blue blooms in a container if she used aluminum phosphate on them and (from what I've heard) it takes more than one application (in the autumn, I believe, before they set their buds).
While I've not grown them in our our yard, the Bluebonnets here in Texas are spectacular. If you and Aaron visit the State of Texas be sure to come in the early spring so you can see them. Especially love Ennis and Brenham areas.
I love your videos Laura. Love your enthusiasm for plants and your down to earth attitude. You cover sooooo many topics and your videos are so informative with the information delivered so nicely. Thank you for all that you share.
First off, love this series of your favorite plants. We are currently in the architecture phase of a new garden, and these vlogs are a fantastic help in curating our plant list. As for blue lupine, yes, we grew them in our Western WA garden with tremendous success-in two years they were 3x3 plus, and had stunning foliage and blooms for much of the season. They reseeded aggressively, but that was actually welcomed on our 10-acre parcel and probably because they were in a woodland setting (which is their natural habitat).
Hi, Laura Good morning , I can help with the Borage. They primarily bloom blue once in a while they throw pink or a white bloom, 5 years ago I planted an entire 1/4 oz packet. They are RAMPANT self seeder, but Pollinators ADORE them! This has given me an idea of what to do with a couple spaces I was still unsure about, so thank you for the true blue reminder!I think Himlayan poppies are going to be my choice!Blessings of Bounty and May Your Gardens and your Life always Bring You Joy , Inspiration and Abundance!" - Hope
I had a blue delphinium in my garden last year that never stopped blooming until we had a severe frost. It was gorgeous, don't remember the name right now but I have the tag in my shed and plan on getting a few more.
Please tell us the name
I saw blue himilayan poppies in Ireland and it is forever stamped on my mind. Just spectacular!
This is so funny and spot on, just yesterday I wrote "something blue" on my balcony planning list for the upcoming summer! Thank you for the inspo once again!
Please do more of these videos. Categories: colors, lighting, care type, bee and butterfly etc.
I always wondered why you didn't grow blue hydrangea. Thanks for this video. Blues are my favorite.
I wondered this as well.
I love blue flowers. Thank you.
Blue and purple flowers are my visual favorites (especially irises), but white flowers have such a rich deep scent in the spring and summer. Intoxicating.
Laura, I love these educational videos. Although you are so humble about your knowledge, to a novice like myself, I love your teaching style. You mentioned in a previous video that you are working on a decorating project in your home, and you were going to bring us along; is that still coming? I love all of your styles of videos, and I love when you show us all elements of your creative process, to include cooking, floral arrangements, and decor. 😊 PS Little Benjamin is so adorable, and by far your best creation yet!
I love all of these!! Getting my list pretty long!! I have blue asters that I enjoy especially in September!! That is when I get ready for fall and when I get to enjoy my garden the most!!
Great video! After a few years in my house, I’ve decided that blue will be dominant in my planting scheme. I’m starting with trellised sweet pea blue butterfly on both sides of my front porch, rosemary and Mexican bush sage. Thanks so much for all the ideas!
So no sooner than i left that previous comment, my seeds for the Himalayan poppy arrived!Not even kidding, This universe of ours is so boss!This is such a great resource as all of you videos are Laura, But i too have a little space at church I want to do a red,white and blue patriotic bed and this was invaluable in my planning it out, so Thank you!😊🦋🦋
Just popping in to say THANK YOU for helping all of us make sense of our gardens!!! Especially during Covid. I just started some delphinium and zinnia seeds. I planted some peonies today too. I’m just so happy!! The bumbles are loving 💓
Excellent video. I have two more blue flowers to add to my blue and white garden.
I have several Rhythmic Blue Hydrangeas 💙💙💙 in my zone 6 western NY garden, and I have to work hard at keeping them dark blue. They are my absolute favorite hydrangea!! Adding several more this spring!!!
Thank you for this video, Laura!!( thanks for all of your very informative videos!)
Always a highlight of my day to learn new things from you!! 💙💙💙💙💙
Any tricks you can help me with. I have two very healthy ones and in zone 5. Ny
I got a Gentiana acaulis Undulatifolia last year that has the most gorgeous blue flowers. I could stare into them for hours. It is a low growing perennial - about 3 inches tall - and it has been evergreen for me throughout the winter (north of Seattle). The trumpet shaped blue flowers are about 3 inches long and about 2 inches across and stand almost straight up. I can see the new flower buds starting to form and I can hardly wait for it to bloom again this year.
They are beautiful blue flowers especially forget me not, thank you Ma'am for sharing
Greetings!
Three more blue flowering perennials are Blue Heron or Blue Porcelain Corydalis (shade, part shade) and True Blue Gentiana (sun to part sun).
I see that you containerized your Rose of Sharon bush. Great Idea!!! They will send out roots and become very invasive if you don't watch out! My first hand experience
The newer varieties don't do that but i also have the old ones and yes they regularly self seed. I've been on a mission since i moved in this house to get them under control.
Love blues 💙 in my garden! Our master bedroom is soft blues and white and I can see the endless summer hydrangea hedge from the windows.
I'm going to give lobelia another try, I had given up on growing it because it always fried. So many beautiful blue flowers to add to my list, thanks!
I keep my gardening notebook nearby whenever I'm watching your videos to write down plants and care tips to remember. Every year my garden just keeps getting better and better!
Very beautiful garden ❤️❤️❤️👍
Wow what a coincidence! I’m planting a purple & blue garden around my grandma’s mailbox! So thanks for doing some of my blue flower research for me! :)
Uy...planting bee-attracting plants around your grandmother's mailbox? Do you hate her letter carrier or something? I've never understood this practice. Someone has to approach that box, open it and insert mail. Please consider that. Some of them might even be allergic to bee stings.
Ageratum or floss flower is my “go to” annual filler in front of my shrubs. I buy Hawaii Blue. I’ve had strangers pull in my drive to ask me what they are. In mass they are beautiful! Thanks for all your inspiration. I plan to try some you mentioned.
Agapanthus is another great blue flowering perennial here in Germany.🙂
I love taking trips to the UK, it's so great seeing a whole country that seems to collectively revere gardening so highly. It was my first time in my last visit seeing both the Himalayan blue poppy (in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden) and blue blossom Ceanothus in full bloom. I had no idea the latter was a Western US native. I bet you could do so well by this one, I was floored by these huge shrubs bursting with true blue flowers. The poppies... I think they might need to be potted and coddled, I don't think high summers in most of the continental US favor it much.
I'm in a zone 5 on the seacoast of NH. We love lupine! They also seem to grow wild here and in Maine.
I’m loving these sit down videos for this time of year. I’m in zone 10 and am starting to plant. I go to the nursery with such long lists now!! After this I’ll spend the week dreaming up a blue border!! Thank you soooo much!!
My all time fav. True blue anything.
I've grown Lupins very successfully in zone 6. I started from seed (in a 72 cell seed starter greenhouse) they did not bloom until the second year in my garden, but the wait was worth it! I have a native sandy loam soil mix and I think that helped them grow to perfection.
Oh, shoot, I'm growing them from seed this year, my very first year growing anything from seed with grow lights, and I read that if you start them early, they should bloom their first year. I really hope mine do. Well, first I'll be amazed if ANYTHING I grow from seed actually turns into a plant! But, yeah, I was kind of counting on the lupines, bought five different colors of them. :o
The “Heavenly Blue” morning glory, for me here in SW Michigan zone 5 is a nightmare...beautiful true blue for sure. I planted ONE around 2005. I now have to pluck out seedlings of that original plant every year - and they are not true to the parent plant - most come up purple. However, last year they started to throw up some vines with lovely pure pink blooms. But I don’t recommend anyone planting morning glory in growing conditions like mine. I do grow forget-me-nots, Scilla, chinodoxa, delphiniums, nigella...oh, and I planted “Delft Blue” hyacinths this year that appear to be a true light blue. I also would count ageratum in as a blue annual. I love lobelia but it never lasts a full season for me - not sure what it is l, maybe too much water, or heat and humidity?
My neighbor did the same, now we both struggle in our flower beds (and he is quite far from my property).
Morning glory is spreading everywhere and it's a very invasive here (zone 6).
Yeah i made same mistake about 5 years ago now they come up everywhere as purple and pink and purple with pink stripes. Surprised there not on the invasive list here in Southern Michigan they grow literally any where the worse the soil the more they flower.
Great information! Thanks for sharing! 💙🤗
So happy you included Borage. I love, love it and they are such beautiful flowers. Mine does multiply (not too aggressively) and have shared with friends.
We had lots of blue in our gardens growing up. I had a delphinium hedge. Took a few years to establish because they are biannual, but stunning! Yes they are called 'magic fountain'. Xoxo... I had no trouble growing the blue hydrangea at my house in nw CT without fussing with the soil. Nice! They got so big they took over the walkway.
Black and Blue Salvia is one of my favorite plants. I'm zone 9b and they are spectacular here. Full sun, very hardy, and they put on a show every year.
I had no idea that Plumbagos' leaves turn color. 😍 Wow! Just planted a few, and it will be nice to see for a change of scenery where all the trees are either still green or bald.
This has been a very interesting video. I love blue flowers......true blue flowers, that is.
Big blue fan. Very pretty options.
"Pretty stickery"? Haha i was waiting for Aaron to put that word up on the screen
I was IMPRESSED at how easily that word flowed off her tongue! ;)
Bluebonnets are so wonderful. They self seed. Their seeds actually make a pop sound. I am from TX and the Bluebbonet is our state flower. They also now have a maroon Bluebonnet.
Such a nice way to revisit your garden from previous seasons.
Omg I want them all!!! But alas, I am zone 4. =( I love ALL blue flowers as it is my favorite color! Some blue flowers that do well in my area (sandy soil; wet springs; hot, humid summers; -22° winter) are Baptista or False Indigo, Catmint, hyacynth, and Russian Sage, that I can think of off the top of my head.
I want to get white hydrangeas this year and those Supertunia Indigo Charm and Lobelia ARE gorgeous with them... totally agree with you, Laura! That has got to be my favorite combination ever! I also have a couple walnut trees that are begging for some of those Scilla Siborica. And that Brunnera, how cool is that?!
This was an awesome video, although I wish Laura had mentioned the zones of each first because I was writing them and all their features and at the end of some she would mention the zone (if she even mentioned it) so I was like, "oh... well, that one won't work for me!" But I very much appreciated all the information!
Your “not fair” face is universal among gardeners ... I can’t grow blue spruce in my area and I’m 😩 every time I see one in your videos !!
Laura ,you share so much info , I wondered if you use cue cards or if you remember all the info . Any way I love it. I’m learning that I have mostly old varieties and wasn’t aware of such a thing till I started watching your channel . 👍
Ha, I was wondering that with this video too for some reason. I guess cause it was so much information.
They seed all over garden here in uk but easy to pull up so well worth having and easy to move