Three for me are .... the spring and autumn gentians .... Omphalodes cappadocica 'Starry Eyes' ( a much nicer name than navelwort!) .... and Centaurea montana (great bee plant.
Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
I love the first forget-me-nots - that lovely blue haze they create. I also have a clematis 'Perle d'Azur', that starts flowering in mid June, and it scramles through a viburnum opulus 'Aurea'. Each makes the other 'sing'. It's a glorious combination and was a happy accident. The lavender blue iris 'Jane Phillips' is another lovely earlyish blue. I love the deep blue of Nigella 'Oxford Blue' but it's not always easy to find like the calendula 'Indian Prince' that it works so well with. But for real blues you can't beat the vibrancy and delicacy of some of the Salvias.
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Three for me are .... the spring and autumn gentians .... Omphalodes cappadocica 'Starry Eyes' ( a much nicer name than navelwort!) .... and Centaurea montana (great bee plant.
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
Currently loving combination of ceanothus concha, euphorbia wulfenii and forget-me-nots...
Look forward to Ceratostigma later in the year.
Salino, I have granium sanguinium and it has deeper cut leaves than the French Rozanne. The Rozanne isn't such a tidy mound either.
I love the first forget-me-nots - that lovely blue haze they create. I also have a clematis 'Perle d'Azur', that starts flowering in mid June, and it scramles through a viburnum opulus 'Aurea'. Each makes the other 'sing'. It's a glorious combination and was a happy accident. The lavender blue iris 'Jane Phillips' is another lovely earlyish blue. I love the deep blue of Nigella 'Oxford Blue' but it's not always easy to find like the calendula 'Indian Prince' that it works so well with. But for real blues you can't beat the vibrancy and delicacy of some of the Salvias.
..strange, isn't it... if you get the chance to take a photo of your Rozanne sometime during the summer, I'd be very interested in comparing...
Another of my favourites is lithodora diffusa. The flowers really are that deep blue!
My lithodorea died but then I read that they like acid soil and I'm on limestone.
Thanks Verdun. I looked them up and Orion looks lovely. I'll look out for it when I'm in England 2nd half of June.