In the past, I've always created this thread in the perennials forum. Then I've proceeded to cheat outrageously by posting mainly photos of annuals, bulbs, tubers, and rhododendrons. The Garden Talk forum probably is a much better place for it.
Please post your own blue flowers here as they start blooming.
This first one is Scilla Peruviana:
Blue flowers blooming now
This is so cool! Every time I came back to this page to post another photo, there was a new blue flower being showcased in the "Top Watchdog Ads." This is a very sophisticated new DG feature.
I like the new feature as well !
I'll post some flores azules manana.
Gracias.
Zuzu - here on the frozen tundra the only thing blue we might have are crocuses but we'll sit back and enjoy all the beautiful blue flowers that the left coast offers. I love your lithodora. Is it an annual?
I just checked my photos and the crocuses are more purple or purple and white, not blue. Have no fear, we'll catch up by May!
pirl: Once your JI's get to blooming, you'll have lots of blue to share !
BLUE coleus maybe ????? LOL
Not yet. We'll leave that to you someday when you retire.
Me, too, Pirl....hyacinths maybe, but more purple than blue. But I am loving Zuzu's!
The color of Zuzu's Nigella is enchanting.
It is, isn't it.
Hmmmm, wondering if it would grow here...
PF tells me that it will.
YES!!
Fabulous photo, Pirl.
Lithodora is a perennial, which lives for years and years here reliably. I've often wondered why it isn't more popular throughout the country. It might be a Pacific Coast kind of plant. Everyone here has Lithodora in their gardens and every nursery carries it. I know the same is true of nurseries in Oregon and Washington because I see it offered on their Websites. I even saw it at the hardware store this weekend -- a 4-inch pot for $2.49. At that price, you could grow it as an annual and not care whether it survives the winter.
It might be in the same category as Schizostylus, another plant whose popularity doesn't seem to have crossed the Sierra Nevada range. That one's also ubiquitous in our three coastal states and almost unknown everywhere else.
Oddly, Plant Files says Lithodora grows only in zones 5, 6, and 7. Bluestone Perennials, however, says it's a plant for zones 6-10.
Thanks, Zuzu. I'll be looking for it at local nurseries this spring.
I've grown it here, but only as an annual. I think our summers are too hot and humid for it to be able to come back in the spring. Also difficult to find.
Looks like Phacelia, Sue. Annie's has it. I buy it from her every year, but the cats tend to eat it before it blooms.
It is Zu, that's why I wrote that the name was on the picture, I was too lazy to type it LOL! I saw that it was on Annie's but I am not going again any time soon so I figured seeds would be a cheap way to add them next year.
Wonder why the cats love them so much. If they sprout easy for me, I will save you a six pack next year!
Oh, sorry, Sue. I enlarged the wrong photo, the one without the name.
The cats love Phacelia and Nemophila. Delilah used to eat all of my Corydalis as soon as I'd plant it. I can grow it now, although I'd rather have Delilah back.
Ahhh, sweet Delilah, she had good taste at least.
I think Dale's take on the lithodora not liking the hot and humid weather is accurate. For I too, love those 'perennials' but they haven't returned for me after many years that I've tried growing them. 'Graceward' was the ones that available locally each spring. I love blue flowers, but I begin to shy away from lithodora.
Blue pansies among other bulbs.
Pretty photo, Lily_Love. I'm sure you and JD are correct. Northern California, Oregon, and Washington have no humid heat, so that's probably why Lithodora grows so well in those three places.
Beautiful blues.
Oh, my, that primula from FF is to die for!
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