Adding A Blue Flower Perennial To Your Garden
Adding the Blue Flower Perennial to your garden design can be a great way to add color and interest to your yard
You can buy blue and blue purple perennials and annuals to enhance your garden design You can have a section for all blue flowers or mix them in with your other colors for a more varied look.
When planting your Blue Flower Perennial make sure you pay attention to the instructions for their planting, care and maintenance. While many flowers thrive in full sun, some prefer the shade so it is important to plant the flowers where they will grow best. A flower that thrives in the shade will not grow very well if planted in full sun.
During the gardening season, be sure to fertilize and water your Blue Flower Perennial according to the instructions that came with the flower and you will be rewarded with big luscious blooms. Don’t forget to pinch off the dead flowers and care for perennials at the end of the season as recommended.
Other things to think about when planting your Blue Flower Perennial plant include:
Blooming Season – plant flowers in your garden with staggered blooming season so that you have continuous blooms all year long.
Size – arrange your garden so that taller plants are in the back and shorter ones in the front.
Consider planting these other blue and purple flowers:
Blue Sea Holly - A lavender blue, this dramatic plant has a cone like flower with long spikey petals. Grows to 30” and makes a great dried flower. Plant in full sun – flowers will appear in mid to late summer.
Corydalis, Blue Panda - This plant produces fragrant stringy sky blue flowers. It blooms in late spring, and sometimes again in fall. Can grow to 12” and likes partial shade with a rich soil.
Polemonium, Blue Pearl – A compact plant with deep sky blue flowers that grows to 8 – 10”. Flowers in late spring to early summer. Plant in partial shade with well drained soil.
Aster – Wonder Of Staffa - Lavender blue daisy like flowers with yellow orange centers which bloom from the middle of summer until fall. It grows 18 to 24” and like to be planted in the full sun with well drained soil.
Penstemon, Blue Buckle - Tubular shaped blooms in blue to purple from mid summer to early fall. Plant grows 12” to 15” and prefers well drained soil with either full or partial sun.
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