Choosing blue flowers for the country bed

Blue color is a rare guest in the garden farms of our country. It is connected first of all with the fact that cold shades, including blue and blue, attract insects worse, respectively, fewer insects sit on flowers of this color, and they are less pollinated. In this article you can find information about blue garden colors, their photos and names.

Scilla

These blue colors are sometimes mistakenly given the names of Lust and Prolesnik, below in the photo you can evaluate their external parameters. This low perennial is very undemanding to the conditions of growth, it multiplies well and is immune to diseases and pests.

This plant is often confused with a snowdrop, because they make their way almost simultaneously. It has long leaves with a parallel venation, the root is an onion, and the flowers have ray symmetry, contain six petals and stamens and one pistil. The fruit is a box with many small seeds.

Clematis

There are many different types of this flower. There are bushes, grassy perennials, but the absolute majority are climbing vines. Their color range is not limited to only blue shades, including also yellow, red, pink and orange colors.

Clematis leaves are complex (including 3, 5 or 7 small leaves) or simple, as a rule, green and paired. Flowers can be collected in inflorescences of various forms (shield, half-cusp, panicle), contain quite variable number of petals: from 4 to 8, and in some forms up to 70.

In the center of the flower are many stamens and pestles. The fragrance exuded by clematis has a similarity with primrose, almond and jasmine.

Hydrangea

In total, there are about 80 species of this flower: from vines and shrubs to small trees. Hydrangeas can be of different colors: blue, white, pale pink, dark purple, red and cream.

This flower can be both deciduous and evergreen, but in our latitudes the first option is more common.

Hortensia is rather large, oval-shaped, with sharp ends of leaves with a slightly noticeable venation. It blooms for quite a long period: from spring to late autumn.

The flowers are collected in inflorescences of various shapes: an umbrella, a ball or a whisk, each has 4 petals, in the center there are pistils and stamens. The fruit is a box with a large number of small seeds.

Lobelia

Lobelia is a herbaceous perennial flower from the bell family, in the photo you can see its appearance. The most popular type in ornamental gardening is lobelia erinus, also known as lobelia blue and lobelia garden.

Bushes lobelia compact spherical shape, a height of 10-25 cm. The leaves are small, lanceolate, arranged in a regular manner, whole. Flowers up to 2 cm in diameter, placed on short legs, each in a separate sinus, up to 2 cm in diameter.

Color varies depending on the variety: blue, purple, dark blue, white, etc.Blossoms from June to September. The flowering period can be prolonged by removing the faded stems. The fruit is a seed box with a huge amount of seeds (in 1 g - 50 thousand seeds).

Aconite

Aconite is a perennial blue flower, also known as a wrestler, a wolf and a skullcap, with the look of a plant you can see the presented photo. It grows, as a rule, in places rich in moisture and humus.

It has alternate leaves of a round shape, less or deeper footed. The stem is straight, 30-40 cm long. The inflorescences are a apical brush, which consists of flowers of rather large sizes.Flowers of irregular coronoid shape, have a five-leafed cup, which may have a blue, white, lilac or yellow color, in the center there are many stamens and one pistil. Fruit - from 3 to 7 dry leaflets with a large number of seeds.

Forget-me-not

This blue garden flower is well known to all residents of the post-Soviet space by the eponymous song by Vyacheslav Dobrynin.It is an annual or perennial herb of rather small size, often heavily pubescent.

Stems reach sizes from 10 to 40 cm, have a highly developed branching structure. The leaves are lanceolate or spatulate, sessile, alternate.

The flowers are blue with a yellow spot in the center, usually forming into an inflorescence (curl or brush), consist of a five-lobe calyx and a dish-shaped corolla, in the center there is one pistil and five stamens. The fruit is a coenobius, which, after maturation, disintegrates into four parts that are not welded together.

Bells

This plant can mainly be found in latitudes with a temperate climate. Its Latin name - Campanula, as well as Russian, appeals to its form and translates as a bell. Extremely undemanding conditions of detention.

The stem is narrow, straight, up to 1.5 meters long. The leaves are arranged alternately, small, elongated in length, lanceolate form. The inflorescences are often racemes or paniculate, sometimes one-flowered.

Flowers, as the name implies, are bell-shaped, rather large (up to 7 cm), in the center there are three stamens and one pistil.The color varies from blue, purple and blue to white and mauve.

Geranium

Geranium, also known as pelargonium, has about 400 different plant species, usually represented by shrubs and herbs. These little blue flowers are also called the crane because of the shape of their fruits, which resemble the crane's beak.

The stem is curved, up to 1 meter long. The leaves are located on the petioles extending from the stem, dissected in a variety of ways, palchatolopastnye or palchatorazdelnye, sometimes feathery form with three to five leaves.

Some species have soft hairs. Peduncle contains from one to three flowers of the correct form, rather large sizes, each of which consists of a five-leafed calyx and five petals of a round corolla, in the center there are up to 10 stamens, each with an anther.

Petunia

Petunia is a plant from the family of hairy, the main habitat of which is South America. Hybrid forms, grown as annual crops in pots, were fallen in love with gardeners for their variegated color and rather large, attractive flowers.

The stem is straight, from 20 to 70 cm long. The leaves are alternate, sessile, of various sizes and shapes, pubescent, entire. The flowers are very large, often solitary, as a rule, have a rather unpleasant odor; the calyx consists of five leaves, which have grown together at the base 1/6 of the length, the rim is five-petal, either regular or star-shaped.

In the center of the flower - four or five stamens. The fruit is a bivalve capsule that unfolds after a period of flowering.

knapweed

This flower is considered weedy and is often found in the fields, forest edges, vegetable gardens and fields. Cornflower is an annual or biennial plant that is quite rarely seen as cultivated in the garden, so you can pretty much surprise your guests by including it in one of your flower ensembles.

This flower has a straight, rough stem 20-100 cm long. Lanceolate leaflets, tightly seated on the stem, lowered. Flower baskets crowned the top of the stem, large, single, have a fringed edge, marginal flowers in baskets are of the brightest color, barren, internal ones are less bright, contain several stamens and one pistil.

Fruit - achene with a red tuft, which is almost equal to it in length.

Lavender

Lavender in ancient times was used for the process of ablution of the body, which is hinted at by the root of its name - lava, which from Latin means “wash”. Today, only two species of this plant are widely distributed in the world - broadleaf lavender (for ornamental purposes) and narrow-leaved lavender (as a medicinal raw material).

This evergreen perennial has numerous stems that lignify in the basal part and reach a length of 60 cm. The leaves are oppositely sessile, silver-greenish shade with soft pubescence.

The flowers are small, blue or blue-lilac, gather in spike-shaped inflorescences of 6-10 pieces, have 5 petals, in the center there are 3-5 stamens. The fruit consists of four nut-like formations that are inside the cup.

Delphinium

This plant is quite close in its biological parameters to another character of this article - aconite. Also known by the name of larkspur and bass. It includes about 450 different species, mostly native to the northern hemisphere.

The height of the stem varies from 10 cm to 3 meters. Leaves - palmate-divided, as a rule, deeply and in many places dissected into sharp or jagged lobes. Flowers of irregular shape gather in inflorescences paniculate form, each of which has 3-15 flowers. Each flower consists of five sepals, the top one has a special cone-shaped spur. Fruits - mnogolistvki.If you decide to diversify your flower beds with blue flowers, remember that some of them are poisonous, but if you follow the precautionary rules, even dangerous species will not have to give you any particular trouble. We wish you successful landscape changes and the most beautiful flower ensembles!