Blue Flowers

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! :-D

 

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.

 

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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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.

 

I am a nut for blue blooms .I have so few this year not sure why.

 

blue bonnets

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!

 

My Blue Plumbago

 

WTx, I plant my torenia in part shade here in Louisiana, some morning sun/afternoon shade and it does fine.

 

SusieQ your plumbago is gorgeous. My regular ones are a weird bluish gray.
Torenia can take a LOT of shade. 8)

 

torenia

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.

 

WTxDaddy, It will tolerate a variety of soils including sandy. Is it maybe getting too much water?

 

Heavenly Blue Morning Glory has gorgeous 4 to 5 inch blooms of sky blue with white throats. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/331155378842161511