Blue Perennial Shrubs
Blooms mid summer to fall.
Blue perennial shrubs. The plant blooms on new wood and should be cut to within inches of the ground in early spring. The variety husker red from the university of nebraska combines white flowers and purple leaves creating a wonderful contrast when combined with plants with light green leaves. Look to the rare hue of these blue flowers both light and dark to brighten up your landscape or balance out warm toned plantings. It is often considered a sub shrub meaning it has woody stems. Traditionally an emblem of peace and calm blue can bring some serenity to your backyard. Decadence blueberry sundae baptisia false. Regardless of which growing zone you live in there is sure to be a flower that will fit your garden s needs.
From teal and turquoise flowers to navy blooms and everything in between our top picks will help you cultivate a gorgeous garden that sings the blues in a good way. Shop perennial gardening books. The amount of blue ness varies from a saturated royal blue to sky blue to a more purple tinted lavender blue. Bugleweed ajuga is a fast growing evergreen ground cover for sunny to partly shady areas with average to moist well drained soil. Storm cloud amsonia bluestar clusters of periwinkle blue star shaped flowers top this easy to grow native. Varieties range from blue to white with shiny green purple and variegated foliage upright blossom spikes and a height about 6 inches. Luckily big blooms like hydrangea offer light sky blue petals and irises can blossom in classic royal blue.
When in bloom it will be covered with buzzing bees that love its nectar rich flowers. These colorful perennial shrubs will grow back fuller and larger each year so be sure to plant them in an area with plenty of space to flourish and grow. Featured best selling alphabetically a z alphabetically z a price low to high price high to low date new to old date old to. Of the 280 000 flowering plants on earth only 10 percent of them are blue. The flowers bloom for around six weeks each summer attracting every bee butterfly and beneficial insect for miles around. This perennial produces attractive spikes of tubular perennial flowers in pink blue lavender white or shades of red. Ajuga and tulips in a spring garden.
The blue mist shrub caryopteris x clandonensis really does create a haze of blue in late summer.