Blues
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Passiflora caerulea 'Blue Crown'
Passionflower, Passionfruit, Granadilla€2.55Out of stock
Known as the Blue Crown Passion Flower or Hardy Passionflower. It is an extremely fast growing and beautiful plant. ‘Caerulea’ sparks with 10cm flowers with white petals and blue filaments. It is popular with gardeners because of its intricate, scented flowers that have an almost surreal appearance. -
Penstemon barbatus 'Twizzle Blue'
Beardtongue€3.25Awarded a Fleuroselect Medal for striking colour, plant habit, and flowering performance, Penstemon barbatus 'Twizzle Blue' is a first year flowering perennial that will add height and high-impact colour to the border, giving superb flowering performance from mid to late summer.
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Phacelia tanacetifolia, Organic
Lacy Phacelia, Purple Tansy€1.75Out of stock
Listed as one of the top 20 honey-producing flowers for honeybees, Phacelia is rich in both nectar and pollen and attracts bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects to the garden. The flowers have strong stems and also make an excellent cut flower. Organic Seed. -
Platycodon grandiflorus 'Mariesii'
Kikyo, Balloon Flower€1.85Platycodon 'Mariesii' is a very floriferous, robust, long lived perennial that forms a compact mound of green foliage, bearing inflated buds that open into star-shaped single bright violet-blue blossoms with dark violet veins. A reliable bloomer that is long lived, it is great for the border and perfect as a cut flower. -
Salvia farinacea 'Fairy Queen'
Bi Colour Sage, Flowering Sage€2.10Salvia farinacea ‘Fairy Queen’ is an attractive new variety that bears multiple spikes of bicolour blue and white flowers on dark distinctive flower stems from June to October. With a bushy, compact habit and thick stems. A small white spot on each sapphire blue flower creates the illusion of fairy dust.
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Salvia farinacea 'Victoria Blue'
Mealy Cup Sage, Flowering Sage, Blue Sage€2.00Out of stock
Deep, true blue is a highly sought after colour in flowers and are this plants' outstanding feature. Flowering in less than four months, this is a splendid variety, a bushy base branching plant producing numerous, long-lasting spikes of vivid true blue flowers. -
Salvia patens 'Blue Angel'
Gentian Sage€3.75Out of stock
Salvia patens is undoubtedly one of the very best blue flowering plants, the large, double-lipped blossoms are one of the truest blues found in nature. 'Blue Angel' is one of the smallest of the 'Gentian Sages', there is little else that can compete with the richness of its colour.
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Salvia sclarea var. turkestanica, Clary Sage
Biennial Clary, Muscatel Sage€1.75This hardy biennial Sage has been grown in almost every botanical sanctuary in human history and has many plus points: it grows well in poor soil resists slugs and other beasties, and doesn’t slump or need staking. It copes well in sun or light shade and the blooms are a magnet for bees and butterflies.
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Salvia sclarea var. turkestanica, Clary Sage, Organic
Biennial Clary, Muscatel Sage€2.15This hardy biennial Sage has been grown in almost every botanical sanctuary in human history. Each stem is topped with a profusion of pale blue blossoms and large pinkish white bracts. A truly architectural plant. Organic Seed. -
Salvia verticillata 'Purple Fairy Tale'
Ornamental, Whorled Sage€2.35Out of stock
Salvia verticillata 'Purple Fairy Tale' is a spectacular first year flowering perennial. The irresistible deep purple petals gather like raindrops in tiered pools to form whorled flowers. Easy to grow, it will begin to bloom just a couple of months after sowing. The plant flowers abundantly and continues right through to September
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Salvia x superba 'Blue Queen'
Ornamental Sage€2.65Salvia x superba 'Blue Queen' is one of the finest Salvias we know. This plant is a spectacular source of dark, intense colour and narrow, vertical form. Masses of pencil-thin, vibrantly colourful bloom spires, so densely set that they present a solid wall of colour in the border.
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Scabiosa atropurpurea 'Oxford Blue'
Sweet Scabious€2.35Out of stock
Boasting the most desirable of deep blue flowers, Scabiosa ‘Oxford Blue’ is a reselected form that stands out from other varieties. The large, domed, dark centred cushions with contrasting white 'pins', bob atop strong stems. A prodigious bloomer, they will supply you with excellent cut flowers.
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Scabiosa caucasica 'Fama Deep Blue'
Pin Cushion, Perennial Pin Cushion€3.65'Fama' is a most elegant flower. With long stems and intense blue blooms, it is the largest flowering and most uniform strain of the Blue Pincushion. They mature into dense tufts of lance shaped, grey-green leaves from which arise a beautiful display of intense lilac-blue flowers each with a silvery centre.
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Scabiosa caucasica 'Fama White'
Pin Cushion, Perennial Pin Cushion€3.65Out of stock
The Fama series is well known for its particularly large flowers that are held on long, strong stems. Beloved by flower arrangers, they are considered to be best strain for cutting. This perennial form of Scabiosa are very easy to grow and will flower in their first year from an early sowing.
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The Blue Garden - Annual Flower Mix
Ideal for beds and borders and for cut flowersStarting at: €3.95
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Ranging from pale baby blue to deep midnight shades and growing to an average height of 70cm (28in), this mix of annual flowers is ideal for the garden and the vase. Blue flowers are associated with serenity and calm - plant them in spring and then tell me that your pulse rate slows just a little bit!
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Verbena speciosa 'Imagination'
Trailing Verbena, Clump Verbena€2.95Out of stock
“Imagination’ is a verbena cultivar that is noted for its profuse bloom of violet-blue flowers, its spreading-trailing stems and its deeply cut foliage. A heat and drought tolerant plant, easily grown it performs well in hanging baskets and containers in full sun.
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Veronica longifolia 'Blue Shades'
Longleaf Speedwell€2.55Veronica longifolia prefers a position in sun or part shade in moist well-drained soil. The sophisticated blue spires bloom in midsummer and last for several months. They make a strong vertical statement and are an excellent contrast to more traditional flowers shapes when positioned at the front of the border. -
Veronica spicata 'Blue'
Spiked Speedwell€1.95Out of stock
Gardeners are often looking for good solid perennials that will have attractive flowers, be easy to take care of, grow nicely but not take over the garden. One group of plants that should be considered is the Veronicas. They provide some of the clearest, truest blues in the perennial border. -
Veronica teucrium 'Royal Blue'
Saw-Leaved Speedwell€2.60Veronica teucrium is a tidy, mound-forming plant that forms a lush mat of foliage. Easily grown in well-drained soil in full sun to part shade, from late spring they are clad in blue flowers. Long racemes of that much sought-after colour, intense, vivid cobalt blue. -
Veronicastrum sibiricum
Siberian Culver's Root€2.35To garden with an Oudolf-esque plant like Veronicastrum, it is not necessary to turn your outdoor space into a prairie: you are allowed to keep your flower beds. Naturalistic planting travels well, and Veronicastrum holds its own in a formal border as well as in the middle of a lawn which has turned into a meadow.