My Garden's Got the Blues (And I Love It!): Blue for my dry garden

» silvan - Blue for my dry garden

Carol, there are some terrific suggestions here. I chose blue as the main colour for my little garden because it's situated on a sunbaked highway corner along a busy sidewalk. I hoped my colour choice would help create an impression of coolness in this dusty, tired site. The garden gets neglected in summer when I get busy with my kids and we spend long weeks at the cottage. But in spring there is a nice collection of flowers in shades of blue, cool pink and white.

Two of my favourite true blue bloomers are perennial flax and blue-eyed grass, which are also natives, another plus in my books. I also love the miniature species of the speedwell and bellflower clans. One of real gems in my garden is a little plant called, I think, Veronica gentianoides (is that a real plant?) It is groundhugging and has little flowers which are slightly larger and more solitary than in most of the Veronicas. But they are a wonderful royal blue.

I grew borage as a teenager, and was always delighted with its flowers, which started pink and turned clear blue. Of course they're edible, a nice addition to salads, which is another plus.

I listed a few more of my favourite native dry garden plants in this article, although the rest of them aren't blue:

http://suite101.com/article.cfm/living_w...

-- posted by silvan