A blue monochromatic (single hue) garden can provide your outdoor space with a sense of cool serenity, since the color blue evokes a sense of calm we associate with the open sky and sea. While it’s hard to find “true blues” in nature, (flowers tend to fall more into a blue-violet category) there are hybrids that now offer closer approximations to actual blue. Consider the following options to include in your yard:
Trees
- Colorado Blue spruce
- Blue Atlas Cedar
Shrubs
- Blue Arrow Juniper
- Blue Star Juniper
- Hydrangea “Nikko Blue”
Groundcovers
- Sedum “Blue Carpet”
- Blue Star Creeper
- Lithodora “Grace Ward”
- Veronica “Christy”
Perennials
- Nepeta “Purrsian Blue”
- Perennial Grass “Blue Fescue”
- Euphorbia “Blue Haze”
- Blue Balloon Flower
- Big Blue Sea Holly
Annuals
- Lobelia “Blue Cascade”
- Dusty Miller
- Leonora Widow’s Tears
- Agapanthus “Summer Love Blue”
- Loddon Royalist Anchusa
- Evolvulus “Blue My Mind”
- Salvia “Playin’ the Blues”
Main Image Credit: Proven Winners – Astra Double Blue Balloon Flower Platycodon Hybrid
Image Credit: www.brecks.com – Widows Tears Leonora
Image Credit: Proven Winners – Blue Fescue
