bethie
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 8:06 pm Post subject: Blue Flowers |
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I'm always chasing blue flowers. I just love them.
Black and Blue salvia is a big hit with the hummers and is turning into a monster huge plant good for sharing.
This is another salvia in a soft blue.
Chartreuse-foilaged plumbago.
Blue convulvulus
Common and ordinary torenia. This reseeds all over the place.
Not sure of the name of this airy little pot filler.
I love the BLUES! 
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eileen
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Bethie you and I share a love of blue flowers. There's just something sooo special about the colour blue in a garden isn't there? Your torenia are out of this world. I wonder if I can grow them here in Scotland?
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bethie
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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Eileen, I don't see why not. They take a variety of conditions. I have pink ones also. They crossed with the blues and have made some violet purple ones with slighly smaller flowers.
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eileen
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Bethie. Torenia seeds now on my list for spring planting.
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Netty
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I love the blues too Bethie! My Torenia looked just like yours and a big windstorm tore the top off and it never grew back.
Hoping my Black & Blue Salvia blooms soon!
Could that last picture be Lobelia?
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WTxDaddy
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:09 am Post subject: blue |
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I have the worst luck with torenia. It always seems to rot in my pots - does it want direct sun, like blazing hot direct West Texas sun? I gave up on them a few years ago.
My black & blue salvia have the habit now of coming back as a decent-sized shrub. They get about 5 feet tall & 4 feet wide in my yard. Lots of hummingbirds come & the last 2 years, one seems to lay claim to it all & chases off all others. I noticed, we have one very silent hummer, who is able to sneak in & feed even when the territorial hummer is standing guard in our pine tree. Any noise from the others brings the watchman down out of the tree & into swift pursuit.
I have pretty good luck with the leadwort/plumbago. It is perennial here, although it disappears in Winter like the black & blue salvia.
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glendann
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I am a nut for blue blooms .I have so few this year not sure why.
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WTxDaddy
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:56 am Post subject: blue bonnets |
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But this Spring was great for blue bonnets in Texas - plenty of rain. I have never seen so prolific an explosion of blue bonnets - fields & fields of them - as I did this past Spring in Central Texas. Gorgeous!
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SusieQ
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject: My Blue Plumbago |
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cajunbelle
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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WTx, I plant my torenia in part shade here in Louisiana, some morning sun/afternoon shade and it does fine.
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bethie
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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SusieQ your plumbago is gorgeous. My regular ones are a weird bluish gray.
Torenia can take a LOT of shade. 
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WTxDaddy
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| Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 2:03 am Post subject: torenia |
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Does the torenia want sandy soil? Is it like impatiens that way? It always seems to rot on me when in the shade of wysteria, or a porch.
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bethie
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| Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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WTxDaddy, It will tolerate a variety of soils including sandy. Is it maybe getting too much water?
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