BLUE FLOWERS 
GROUP of blue, or blue and white flowers, if well placed, Clear Blue 
A 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 Lucilig 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 
ceruleus, 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 Miust—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 
Wallichit, Lobelias, Gentians, Linum perenne, Salvia patens and 
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