Types of Blue Flowers
Blue tones are cool tones and used in summer gardens they lend a relaxing mood to the garden. The yellows and red flowers are hot colours and they heat up the garden mood. If you’re looking for excitement in the spring and fall garden, use those hot colours but for summer relaxation, try to emphasize blue.
Many Types of Blue Flowers are Not Really Blue
The problem in the flower world is that most of the flowers that are listed as being “blue” are not. An artist would say that they are mostly violets or even magenta tones (at the other end of the colour wheel) but rarely a true blue. But because we all want blue flowers, the marketers have described some not-so-blue flowers as the colour we’d all like.
The types of blue flowers in this list are a wide range of tones of blue – from real sky blue (Corydalis) to mid-tone blues (viola) to darker violet blues (agapanthus) I have listed them all because each gardener will want to make his or her own decision about the nature of the blue garden they are trying to create (dark or light or ??)
There are Differences in Varieties
To make matters slightly more interesting, you’re going to find that there are varieties of plants within each of the species listed below that are more or less “blue” than others. Aquilegia or Columbine is a perfect example. Some of the dwarf species have a good shade of real blue but when you get to some of the hybrids, that blue becomes violet. You’ll have to be careful when picking the variety of each of the plants below to get the correct shade of blue you’re looking for.
A Plant List (print it out and take it shopping)
But if you’re not looking for any particular shade – here’s the types of blue flowers you can pick from:
Achillea
Aconitum
Agapanthus
Agastache
Ajuga
Alcea
Allium
Alstroemeria
Amsonia
Anchusa
Anemone
Aquilegia
Aster
Astilbe
Aubrieta
Baptisia
Bergenia
Brunnera
Buddleia
Callirhoe
Camassia
Campanula
Caryopteris
Catananche
Centaurea
Ceratostigma
Cirsium
Clematis
Codonopsis
Convolvulus
Corydalis
Cymbalaria
Deinanthe
Delosperma
Delphinium
Dianthus
Digitalis
Dracocephalum
Echinacea
Echinops
Erigeron
Erinus
Erodium
Eryngium
Erysimum
Eucomis
Eupatorium
Euphorbia
Fuchsia
Gentiana
Geranium
Geum
Glechoma
Globularia
Hebe
Helleborus
Hemerocallis
Hesperis
Horminum
Hosta
Houstonia
Hydrangea
Iris
Isotoma
Jasione
Lamium
Lathyrus
Lavandula
Liatris
Lilium
Limonium
Linaria
Linum
Liriope
Lithodora
Lobelia
Lunaria
Lupinus
Malva
Meconopsis
Mertensia
Molinia
Monarda
Myosotidium
Myosotis
Nectaroscordum
Nepeta
Omphalodes
Origanum
Paeonia
Papaver
Pennisetum
Penstemon
Perovskia
Phlox
Phyteuma
Platycodon
Polemonium
Pratia
Primula
Pulmonaria
Pulsatilla
Roscoea
Rosmarinus
Salvia
Satureja
Saxifraga
Scabiosa
Scutellaria
Sedum
Semiaquilegia
Sesleria
Sisyrinchium
Stachys
Stokesia
Symphytum
Tanacetum
Teucrium
Thymus
Tradescantia
Tricyrtis
Verbascum
Verbena
Vernonia
Veronica
Veronicastrum
Vinca
Viola t
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