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

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 ...

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.

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.

Ageratum: This sky blue bloomer has a powder puff form of flower and is not easy to grow in our sometimes rainy climate, but true blue flowers are so hard to come by that this sun lover deserves a ...

Betcha' that clematis was bragging to the other struggling plants, "I'm a Proven Winner, I will be all right." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...