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deltalady22deltalady22 Posts: 4
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Can someone suggest a blue (not mauve blue)-  a real blue  darker the better   perennial - or shrub   to go in my garden next to my white selinum and my pinky thalictrum
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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Salvia patens is the best deep blue in my garden but it flowers rather sparsely and isn't fully hardy everywhere. Salvia Blue Note is quite a good blue, but subtle - the flowers are small. For end of summer into autumn, the Ceratostigmas (C. willmottianum - shrubby, and C. plumbaginoides - technically a shrub but for me it behaves like a perennial) are both good bright blue.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I thought this thread might be of interest https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1027879/ceanothus-which-is-the-darkest-and-bluest/p1 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • MikeOxgreenMikeOxgreen Posts: 812
    I would suggest a course on English and Grammar.
  • DriftoftheseasonsDriftoftheseasons Posts: 28
    MikeOxgreen said:
    I would suggest a course on English and Grammar.
    Ok Mr Meldrew, I think it's past your bedtime. Seriously, go and punch a pillow or something.

    Deltalady - possibly still on the mauve side but have a look at dark blue aconitums. Also possibly some delphiniums, possibly even one of the tall campanulas (eg glomerata) in the right light. Geranium rozanne, but that's a lighter blue.


  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Mike, why be rude? I don't get it.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Delta, what aspect is the garden bed and what kind of soil do you have? Where abouts are you?
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Unfortunately Mr. " I think I am hilarious by choosing a rude user name" has been rude ever since he arrived on the forum. He intersperses this rudeness with the very occasional interesting post and gets away with it.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Maybe someone should unplug his internet for him when he starts on the home brew 🙄 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I've only just realised it was a rude name. How amusing🙄
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Playground stuff eh @B3

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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