Adding A Blue Butterfly Flower To Your Garden Area
Adding the Blue Butterfly Flower to your garden design can be a great way to add color and interest to your yard .
Flowers in every shade of blue to purple are available in perennial and annual form. You can have a section for all blue flowers or mix them in with your other colors for a more varied look.
When planting your Blue Butterfly Flower make sure you pay attention to the instructions for their planting, care and maintenance. Buying plants that thrive in the conditions in which you intend to grow them will give you a much fuller and easier to care for garden. A sun loving flower will not grow to a lush full plant if it is planted in the shade.
During the growing season, be sure to fertilize and water your Blue Butterfly Flower according to the directions supplied at your garden shop and you will be sure to have big beautiful flowers. Pinching off the dead flowers will help the plant to grow fuller and produce more flowers.
Other things to think about when planting your Blue Butterfly Flower plant include:
Flowering Times – try to plant flowers that bloom at different times near each other. This way, you’ll have continuous blooms in your garden all year.
Size – arrange your garden so that taller plants are in the back and shorter ones in the front.
Consider planting these other blue and purple flowers:
Delphinium - Butterfly Blue - Bright blue delicate flower petals adorn this plant that blossoms in early to mid summer. It will reach 10" tall and likes a sunny location with rich moist soil.
Caspian, Blue Indigo - Blue pea shaped flowers bloom on stalks that grow up to 5 feet tall. The flowers that bloom in mid to late summer can last for several weeks. Plant in full sun or partial shade and sandy soil.
Polemonium, Blue Pearl – A compact plant with deep sky blue flowers that grows to 8 – 10”. Flowers in late spring to early summer. Plant in partial shade with well drained soil.
Balloon Flower - Sentimental Blue - This shorter plant has medium blue flowers that puff up before It blooms in. It can get to about 8" and likes to grow in a fully sunny spot.
Penstemon, Blue Buckle - Tubular shaped blooms in blue to purple from mid summer to early fall. Plant grows 12” to 15” and prefers well drained soil with either full or partial sun.
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