Hey, TRUE BLUE
Better Homes & Gardens Australia|October 2021
Go gently into spring with flowers that are subtle, graceful and elegant, and leave the riots of colour to summer!
Hey, TRUE BLUE

1 TOWERS THAT INSPIRE

Delphiniums represent all the cheer, charm, and color of a spring cottage garden. You have a choice of white, yellow, purple, red, and pink flowers, but they mainly come in an incredible range of blues – pale, bright, dark, and lilac.

You can have a purple, a green, a yellow, or a red-blue, yet a true blue in your garden is a rare thing. Only 10% of flowers are blue, so who cares if there’s a hint of pink to turn a blue into the lilac, or yellow added to blue up a green leaf? Blue has been pooh-poohed as not being compatible with other colors, but come back at those who say “blue and green should never be seen” and tell them to see tall, arching, foliage-filled trees that caress a deep-blue sky. Perhaps it’s just that blue flowers are so unfamiliar. Here’s the best for spring to chase away your winter blues.

2 THE BLUE YONDER

The bearded iris is classical, beautiful, and elegant, while blue Amsonia has the looks that belong in woodland. Both love the sun and will keep growing into summer. Grow your irises in clumps for mass appeal, making concentrations of colors.

3 WILD AND WONDERFUL

You can’t blame your spring garden for going a little wild after the winter closure – alliums are leading the charge, but there’s ample support from Verbascum, irises, salvias, and alchemilla. Once you put your allium bulbs in the garden, you can forget about them until each spring – they’ll keep popping up in more numbers than the previous year!

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