Blue Fresh Cut Flower Bouquets From Your Own Garden
You can make your own blue fresh cut flower bouquets from these beautiful perennials that you can grow right in your own garden.
Perennials make great cuttings for vases or bouquets and many times cutting off the blooms will help the plant to bloom fuller and for longer times. Remember to cut just as the bloom opens.
The colors in these perennials range from a lavender periwinkle color to a deep royal blue color and fill your garden with a peaceful tranquility. Perennials are easy to plant and will bloom for many years so you only have to plant and forget.
Since blue fresh cut flowers bloom for a short time, you should contrive your garden so that each vicinity has a blooming plant in it at all times by planting these flowers that bloom in succession near each other - that way one place of your garden won't look bleak once the blooms are gone.
Pinching dead flowers from your plants will cause it to bring on more blooms and aid the overall wellness of the plant.
Flowers from your garden look great in an antique vase or old silverplated coffee pot. Arrange them by color or put a bunch of different colors together. You can even dry the flowers and put on a wreath as a nice remembrance of your summer garden.
Plus flowers fresh from your garden make great gifts for holidays and as hostess gifts when you are invited over for dinner!
Below is a list of perennials that make great blue fresh cut flower bouquets and add color to your garden:
Ajuga - Bronze Beauty - This ground covering plant has short spikes of blue flowers and quickly carpets an area and also does well in window boxes. It flowers in in spring, this plant grows better in a spot with some shade.
Balloon Flower - Sentimental Blue - This low growing plant has medium blue flowers that puff up before Blooming. Growing to about 8" and thrives in a sunny spot.
Delphinium - Butterfly Blue - Bright blue delicate blossoms adorn this plant that has blooms in early to mid summer. It can get as tall as 10" tall and likes a sunny location with rich moist soil.
Bachelors Button - This has bright blue thistle like flowers and grows to about 24". It graces us with flowers in late summer to early fall - prune after first bloom for more blooms. Plant in a fully sunny spot.
Scabiosa - Butterfly Blue - This bushy plant is more of a lavender blue flowering plant with 2" blossoms that bloom from June to October. Plant in a spot with no shade - deadheading after first bloom will encourage repeat has flowers. This flower attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
Verbena - Babylon Blue - Purply blue flowers on this early bloomer that is great for window boxes and plant beds.
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