Butterflies are important pollinators and look beautiful fluttering around your yard. These blue fast-growing flowers are ...

4. Blue Flag Iris Irises are among the best plants for light blue flowers in native garden spaces. Blue flag iris (Iris versicolor) is especially well-adapted to growth where conditions are wet.

Start with omphalodes, which some people think of as a perennial forget-me-not, its star-shaped azure blue flowers floating above ovate to heart-shaped verdant green foliage. It forms a clump 6 to ...

However, in the world of flowering plants, fewer than 10% produce truly blue blooms. And even then, most “blue” flowers are simply a variation on lavender.

County fair season is the perfect time to show off your garden’s best flowers and maybe earn a ribbon or two along the way.

Roses are red, violets are blue. Except they’re not. They’re, er, violet. True blue flowers are exceedingly rare, and not for lack of effort. Plant breeders have repeatedly tried to nudge ...

Plenty of flowers are bluish, but it’s rare to find true blue in nature, says Naonobu Noda, a plant researcher at the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization near Tsukuba, Japan, and ...

He found flowers that opened and closed based on the weather; for example dandelions will close when it rains. Others bloom dependent on day length, hence short and long day plants.