Beautiful blue touches in the
garden
.
Bedding plants, to arrange rockeries, perennials or annuals, here is a selection of blue flowers.
blue gentian
Blue gentian is a mountain plant.
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Gentian is part of the
Gentianacea
family .
This herbaceous perennial or annual is a mountain plant.
It can be planted in beds, borders, rockeries and planters.
At maturity, it can measure, depending on the variety, from 10 to 15 cm in height.
Among the species that offer blue flowers:
stemless gentian
Gentiana acaulis
asclepiadea
gentiana
Gentiana sino-ornata
or autumn gentian
The fall gentian has a rosette habit, trumpet flowers and narrow evergreen leaves.
Its growth is slow.
Plant it from March to May to take advantage of its intense blue in the fall.
Its flowering period extends from September to November.
the anemone
The blue anemone is a bulbous plant.
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The anemone blanda is part of the Ranunculaceae family.
These are bulbous plants that are planted in the fall for flowering in the spring.
They are grown in the undergrowth, in rockeries or on the edge of beds.
The 'Astrocaerulea' variety is a tuberous plant with dark green, semi-erect leaves with 3 toothed lobes.
In early spring, each stem bears an erect, flattened, dark blue flower.
4 to 5 cm in diameter, it has 9 to 14 narrow petals.
Other varieties of blanda anemones with blue flowers:
“Blue Shades”: blue
“Blue Star”: pale blue
The delphinium
The delphinium is sensitive to the wind.
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Delphinium is an easy-to-care-for plant.
It has the particularity of having a floral stem (single leafless stem on which a solitary flower or a group of flowers grows) in the shape of an arrow.
Small-sized varieties are suitable for rockeries;
the others to arrange beds or in bouquets.
It is necessary to stake the flower stalks because the delphinium is sensitive to the wind.
Types of delphinium with blue flowers:
Delphinium formosum
Delphinium grandiflorum variety belladonna
Delphinium Blue Fountains
Delphinium Blue Nile
hydrangea
The hydrangea is part of the hydrangeaceae family.
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The hydrangea, whose Latin name is
Hydrangea macrophylla,
belongs to the hydrangeaceae family.
The flowering period of the hydrangea extends from July to the first autumn frosts, depending on the variety.
Hydrangeas are easy to grow in the ground.
The 'Kluis Superba' hydrangea has blue inflorescences (arrangement of flowers on the stem of a plant).
This bushy shrub can reach 1.80 m.
Good to know
You can make pretty bouquets with dried flowers.
Himalayan blue poppy
The Himalayan blue poppy resembles the poppy.
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The Himalayan blue poppy, whose Latin name is
Meconopsis betonicifolia
, is a member of the Papaveraceae family.
It looks like a poppy.
This ephemeral perennial plant offers a pretty blue azure touch in flower beds.
Grow it in partial shade in cool, well-drained soil.
Plant it in the fall for spring flowering.
To know
In general, the flowering of the Himalayan blue poppy appears in the second year.
