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

Visit any garden center and it isn’t hard to find a large variety of flowers in shades of red, white and blue. Simply select your favorite color combination or choose from some of these great ...

When we stop to think about it, there really aren’t that many blue flowers, neither in our gardens nor in the wild. Oh yes, ...

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 ...

Q: Why are more fruits and flowers red, orange or yellow than blue? —Robert L. Morrison | Poughkeepsie, New York There is actually no true blue pigment in nature. A pigment creates color by ...

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 ...

That makes genetically engineering a blue flower tricky, since you can't just make a straightforward tweak and expect a garden full of unnatural hues. Scientists have just managed a breakthrough ...

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 ...

Until the breakthrough introduction of 'Blue Angel' in 2012, hardy hibiscus bloomed only in red, white and pink. More than a decade ago, Dariusz Malinowski, a plant physiologist with AgriLife in ...