BLUE FLOWERS 



A GROUP of blue, or blue and white flowers, if well placed, Clear Blue 

 will be always a feature of great beauty in the garden and Flowers 

 most restful to the eye. Its cool tone harmonises, like the 

 sky itself, with other colours, and, if used in the wild garden, blends 

 with the surrounding landscape of wood or field, beautifying and 

 completing the picture without forming any vivid contrast. 



Flowers of a real clear blue are rather scarce : deceived by 

 some alluring description, one is frequently led into procuring a 

 plant which turns out in the end to be mauve or purple. These 

 disappointments cause the blue with no trace of pink in its 

 composition, like the tint of Water Forget-me-not or Gentian, 

 to become doubly precious. Such treasures, however, are to be 

 found for every season of the year. In spring, for instance, we 

 may have Chionodoxa Luc ilia and sardensis, Scilla sibirica, several 

 of the Muscari, but particularly Heavenly Blue and conicum, all 

 the Forget-me-nots, some of the Borages and Omphalodoes verna, 

 while on the verge between blues and mauves are Anemone 

 blanda and apennina. In May a rare little plant, Pentstemon 

 ctzruleus, from the Western States of America, bears flowers of 

 pure Cambridge blue, a gem for colour. For summer there are 

 lovely annuals, such as the pale sky-blue Nemophila insignis, 

 Love in the Mist particularly Miss Jekylls' deep variety 

 Cornflowers, Phacelia campanularis, and the big blue Pimpernel 

 (Anagallis grandiflora] ; for perennials we may have Anchusas, 

 Veronicas, Lithospermums, Mertensias, the turquoise Meconopsis 

 Wallichii, Lobelias, Gentians, Linum perenne^ Sahia patens and 



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