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.
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
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).
Hey! One picture you showed for the bulb Scilla is Puschkinia scilloides or stripped squill. Everyone should try it. It has the soft blue line on a white petal. Very delicate. Also Texas bluebells are easy to grow but are short- lived in my Zone 5. Love your videos!!
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.
Blue is my FAVORITE color flower... and then peach. Would love a video on peach flowers too. Thank you, thank you for this video. I have Agapanthus in my garden which blooms a pretty periwinkle blue that I love. I grew borage last year and it self seeded. - amazing how far those seeds can spread. I had to pull some, but left many, so I'm enjoying blue right now. I added in lithodora, and plan on adding Eryngium this year.
Hi Laura, just a funny thing. I was watching this video air-streamed to my TV. Just as you were mentioning "be sure the [flower] is blue not purple..." you showed the blue iris. It showed purple on my TV but blue on my Mac. Just a thought to mention that even our own computers, iPads, phones, whatever, can be deceptive, or at least not "true" to color. :) I love what you do and have learned so much. I'm gardening about 8 hours north of you in Coeur d'Alene, ID.
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.
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 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
Living here, near Fort Worth, you see blue bonnets growing in huge patches along each side of the highways. That's because they grow great in really poor soil. The richer the soil, the worse they do. 150 years ago people would go look at land they were interested in buying during February/March. If there were large amounts of blue bonnets on it they either didn't buy it or paid less for the land because it had such bad soil.
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 😍
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 ♥
💙💙💙 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! 💙💙💙
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 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!
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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’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!)
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!
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.
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Been growing blue hydrangeas for years...nothing more spectacular than when.that leaf green & that flower blue. I loved your video.
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!! 💙💙💙💙💙
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!😊🦋🦋
We grow a lot of catmint here in the midwest. They are a perennial and are used frequently in landscape design at the front of subdivisions because they grow quickly and have a nice shape (round, only about 16" tall). They produce a blueish bloom on the stalks. Gorgeous and super low maintenance!
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.
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!
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.
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!!
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🤔😅)💙
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
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!!
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!
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.
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).
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!
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.
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. 🥰
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 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!!
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 cannot wait for my heavenly blue morning glories to bloom. Wow,, just fell in love with those Sibercas! Nigella too! I also have a penchant for green flowers.
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! 😂💚🌿
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.
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.
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.
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!
Last year when I saw your rose of sharon was one of the shrubs i want to grow this season. The blue caught my attention and just order and got a bunch of blue flowers for this year
I love blues and whites and purples for the garden! Can you do a video like this please with purples and lavenders? I need ideas to pair with these gorgeous blues 💜💙
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 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.
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!
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 💓
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!
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.
You caught my attention with the word blue ... my favourite colour. I think the Himalayan blue poppy is just extraordinary. Thanks for sharing these beautiful photos.
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.
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!!
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!
Great discussion about blue plants. Last year, I planted Lobelia as a border and it made my other plants really pop. I used to live and garden in Zone 8-8b. The Texas Blue Bonnet (Lupine) is a Texas native wildflower. I had success growing it in my garden and it came back year after year because of the growing conditions. It blooms like crazy in the hill country between Austin and San Antonio followed by a succession of other native wildflowers. That entire area is gorgeous in the spring! Miss seeing the beautiful show they put on in the Spring in Texas. I have not tried growing them in my current zone 5 but maybe they can be grown as an annual. It's worth a shot.
I love your videos and share lots of the info with my two garden club/study groups. Would you consider leaving the name of the plant (while you are talking about it) up on the screen for those of us taking notes?
Thank you for this info! Blue flowers are my favorite. I’m new to gardening and inspired 100% due to you and your videos. I’m also a zone 5. I’ll see you in Ohio next week and at your event in June! 💙🌸
Indeed...all shades of blue flowers...intense blues....feast for the eyes... You are so right, colour description are very deceptive Tqtq for sharing...💖💝
Hi Laura! Thanks for this video! I love blue flowers! The "Heavenly Blue" Morning Glory are such gorgeous vines. This is the plant that got me started on my garden obsession! Also love the tours of your parents garden as your mom seems to use a lot of blue flowers in her yard. 😁
Blue butterfly pea is stunningly blue
I have that as a tea, and the blue is absolutely beautiful!!
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!
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.
Please do more of these videos. Categories: colors, lighting, care type, bee and butterfly etc.
My go to blue flower is the black blue salvia. The hummingbirds love it!
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
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).
Hey! One picture you showed for the bulb Scilla is Puschkinia scilloides or stripped squill. Everyone should try it. It has the soft blue line on a white petal. Very delicate. Also Texas bluebells are easy to grow but are short- lived in my Zone 5. Love your videos!!
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.
Blue is my FAVORITE color flower... and then peach. Would love a video on peach flowers too. Thank you, thank you for this video. I have Agapanthus in my garden which blooms a pretty periwinkle blue that I love. I grew borage last year and it self seeded. - amazing how far those seeds can spread. I had to pull some, but left many, so I'm enjoying blue right now. I added in lithodora, and plan on adding Eryngium this year.
Hi Laura, just a funny thing. I was watching this video air-streamed to my TV. Just as you were mentioning "be sure the [flower] is blue not purple..." you showed the blue iris. It showed purple on my TV but blue on my Mac. Just a thought to mention that even our own computers, iPads, phones, whatever, can be deceptive, or at least not "true" to color. :) I love what you do and have learned so much. I'm gardening about 8 hours north of you in Coeur d'Alene, ID.
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!!
Excellent video. I have two more blue flowers to add to my blue and white garden.
I have enjoyed the blue of campanula blue waterfall and peach leaf bell flowers. I would also call the rozanne geranium bloom blue.
I love flowers of all colors but blue flowers fascinate me.🌸🌸🌸♥️
I love blue 💙💙💙. I love your videos also. Best gardening channel.
I love blue flowers! I would create an all-blue garden if I could.
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.
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
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
I love pastel blue statice--so pretty in bouquets, dries true to color, likes full sun and easy to grow!
One of my favorite blue flowers is 'Electric Blue' penstemon. That flower is seriously the most bluest of blue, it is gorgeous. 😍
Living here, near Fort Worth, you see blue bonnets growing in huge patches along each side of the highways. That's because they grow great in really poor soil. The richer the soil, the worse they do. 150 years ago people would go look at land they were interested in buying during February/March. If there were large amounts of blue bonnets on it they either didn't buy it or paid less for the land because it had such bad soil.
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 😍
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 ♥
💙💙💙 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! 💙💙💙
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 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!
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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’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.
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!
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.
Been growing blue hydrangeas for years...nothing more spectacular than when.that leaf green & that flower blue. I loved your video.
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
So happy to see this. I could have blue flowers everywhere, & love it forever. Thanks for the onscreen pics. Very helpful. AWESOME. 💙💜
Since my favorite color is blue, I loved this video. Love the Iris Reticulata and Scilla Siberica! Thank you for sharing them all!
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!😊🦋🦋
We grow a lot of catmint here in the midwest. They are a perennial and are used frequently in landscape design at the front of subdivisions because they grow quickly and have a nice shape (round, only about 16" tall). They produce a blueish bloom on the stalks. Gorgeous and super low maintenance!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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🤔😅)💙
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!😄💙
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!!
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!
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.
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.
Good morn to ya !!😄 blues some of my faves😊👒🌹
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).
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!
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 saw blue himilayan poppies in Ireland and it is forever stamped on my mind. Just spectacular!
all flowers are beautiful, marvellous and breath taking.
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
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 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!!
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 cannot wait for my heavenly blue morning glories to bloom. Wow,, just fell in love with those Sibercas! Nigella too! I also have a penchant for green flowers.
I always wondered why you didn't grow blue hydrangea. Thanks for this video. Blues are my favorite.
I wondered this as well.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
Last year when I saw your rose of sharon was one of the shrubs i want to grow this season. The blue caught my attention and just order and got a bunch of blue flowers for this year
Spanish blue bells, zone 3-8, grows in almost any light, comeback every year. Beautiful.
I love blues and whites and purples for the garden! Can you do a video like this please with purples and lavenders? I need ideas to pair with these gorgeous blues 💜💙
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.
What about Flax! Beautiful blue perennial that blooms all season
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 ❤️
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.
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!
I'm in a zone 5 on the seacoast of NH. We love lupine! They also seem to grow wild here and in Maine.
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 💓
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!
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.
You caught my attention with the word blue ... my favourite colour. I think the Himalayan blue poppy is just extraordinary. Thanks for sharing these beautiful photos.
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
Sunday morning with coffee and Laura!!😊
Sunday afternoon with coffee and Laura! Just came home from work! 😊
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!!
Blue flowers are my favorite.
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!
Great discussion about blue plants. Last year, I planted Lobelia as a border and it made my other plants really pop.
I used to live and garden in Zone 8-8b. The Texas Blue Bonnet (Lupine) is a Texas native wildflower. I had success growing it in my garden and it came back year after year because of the growing conditions. It blooms like crazy in the hill country between Austin and San Antonio followed by a succession of other native wildflowers. That entire area is gorgeous in the spring! Miss seeing the beautiful show they put on in the Spring in Texas.
I have not tried growing them in my current zone 5 but maybe they can be grown as an annual. It's worth a shot.
I love your videos and share lots of the info with my two garden club/study groups. Would you consider leaving the name of the plant (while you are talking about it) up on the screen for those of us taking notes?
Lovely!! Can you do some other colors too? Peach would be fun!
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The Florist…🌹
Thank you for this info! Blue flowers are my favorite. I’m new to gardening and inspired 100% due to you and your videos. I’m also a zone 5. I’ll see you in Ohio next week and at your event in June! 💙🌸
blue is my favorite color among white and black, but in floral especially, I love blues and whites. this is an excellent video, thank you for the info
They are beautiful blue flowers especially forget me not, thank you Ma'am for sharing
Indeed...all shades of blue flowers...intense blues....feast for the eyes...
You are so right, colour description are very deceptive
Tqtq for sharing...💖💝
Hi Laura! Thanks for this video! I love blue flowers! The "Heavenly Blue" Morning Glory are such gorgeous vines. This is the plant that got me started on my garden obsession! Also love the tours of your parents garden as your mom seems to use a lot of blue flowers in her yard. 😁