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Blue foliage
I love blue in the garden....lots of blue flowers but blue foliage is not quite so plentyful. There's eucalyptus, elymus magellanicus, pinks, bluish hostas, mertensia (could never keep this one) junipers like Blue Star, hebes like pagei and quicksilver and some succulents.
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Hi Verdun, how about Echinops 'globe thistle' or a Eryngium 'sea holly', Bugle has a blue-ish tinge to the leaves and some begonias have shaded leaves?
Cerinthe have a bluish look to the leaves.
Melianthus major?
I had melianthus in our last garden in Hants. but it fell to honey fungus. Great plant with bluish foliage, ours even flowered once.I'd say it'd be great down in the West Country.
A lot of the conifers have brilliant young blue growth e.g pinus and picea this time of year. Festuca ellijah Blue.
Stachys, or lambs lugs as they are known here. I always cut the flowering stems off. More of a grey than true blue but makes a nice contrast in the garden.
http://www.shrublandparknurseries.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=31_109_112
There's a few on here - makes me want to get some festuca glauca !
Daisy I have Ejijah Blue
I bet it's lovely...I think it's definitely going to go onto my list of what to plant in my big bed next year once the under-gardner's potatoes and onions are out. What kind of conditions do you grow it in, KEF?