Show us your favorite purple plant..... Mine is Mexican Bushe Salvia- Marie
favorite purple plant????
I like Salvia "May Night", but I don't have a picture.
Maybe Joe Pye Weed at the moment? It's fairly purple I guess. After that, maybe a purple oxalis.
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And didn't I hear people in another thread talking about joe pye weed...related to ironweed? Now that I think about it...I guess it sure looks like it is. We've got ironweed growing in the old pasture all over the place.
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I have so many purple plants and love them all, but I guess the ones I love best are the unnamed, old-fashioned dark purple iris I was given for free -- almost 200 of them! They don't have a lot of scent, but are tough, indestructible, and best of all, they rebloom two or three times a year for me.
Other purple plants I love are: Tibouchina (we have both heteromalla and urvilleana), Plectranthus ciliatus, Cerinthe major (looks just like a purple shrimp!), Clematis 'Jackmanii', and our beautiful 'Intrigue' floribunda rose, which flowers profusely from March through October with little disease or pest problems.
Here's the iris. It grows in sun or shade:
Mine has to be Black & Blue Salvia
not a real perrennial here but verbena bonarensis. So tall and unique in the flower beds.
Oh! And allium purpereum.... a maroon black but still a kind of purple.
greta--- I just love that verbena bon. you never know where it will spring up from year to year. Glad you brought that one up. Marie
I love the Black and Blue Salvia too, but it's sold as an annual here in our zone 5. I was wondering if I could save seed and grow it as an annual again ............. or does it take more than one year to bloom from seed?
I also have the verbena bonarensis for the first time this year, it's a real beauty. Glad to hear it reseeds
This is a new one for me this year. It is a true purple, the photo doesn't do it justice.
Sarasota Campunula
Debby,
If that picture doesn't do it justice, it must be very striking in person. Beautiful !
My newest favorite is Anise Hyssops (Agastache urticifolia) ....this pix doesn't do the color or the scent (Good and Plenty candy) justice.
Mark--hopefully I will have seeds to the Apricot Sprite variety of the agastache soon. It is just beautiful. Same type of blooms but with a orangey/peachy color. Just beautiful! Hummingbirds favorite in my garden. Marie
Debby I love your purple campanula I had a solid white and a solid pink and the pink came back this year and done wonderful but I lost my white and it was beautiful. (grabbing a klennex). Here is another one of my favorites aster oblongfolia or fragrant asters. They are so beautiful and will have millions (almost haha) of blooms on them and they are mildew resistant!
Just took this tonight.
Purple loosestrife and Branched Coneflower [Rudbeckia Triloba]
The rudbeckia is a very aggressive Native to the USA, so she can duke it out with the Purple Loosestrife.
Debby--- Both of them would make excellent fighters!!! But you have got to love them both! Marie
What a fun thread! Purple is my favorite color. I think I'll add some of these to my drought resistant perennials list. http://davesgarden.com/t/449327/
Silvi, High Country Gardens had a pic of the May Night, it is stunning. http://www.highcountrygardens.com/shop/prod.html?class=davids&subclass=award&page=8&id=11f0820faaa2d4c287fce6551be1a026
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Lavender , lavender, cornflower,
lavender & bee balm - oh! and asters!
Lupines! I have a 50 foot bank just across from the front yard. In June and early July, I am treated to a blanket of purple and white flowers driving up the road. So pretty. I wish they stayed in bloom longer and they weren't so ugly when done, but you can't have it all. I just brush hog the bank in early fall to scatter the seeds and they keep on coming.