‘Paint’ Your Garden with Blue…
Is your garden is singing the blues? Mix recycled containers and crafts with blue flowers and add some deep color and serenity to your leafy retreat. It’s no secret that blue is the favorite color for many gardeners.
Peggy Ann Mills
Myra Glandon’s meadowy blues
Rhonda Duchesneau Milk can spilling out with milky flowers
Sherry Carlson’s delphinium
Jeanne Sammons used blue bottles as accents here
Ways to use blue in the garden:
Painted wood or metal
Blue glass
Blue ceramics
Blue Graniteware
Blue insulators
All these can be found at thrift shops!
Marie Wirth’s blue door
In your face,..with their little faces…Blurberry Hill Violas
Leslie Poitevent Here is my blue bottle garden gate
Jeanie Merritt’s Bluebird of Happiness, painted on a glass block
Margie Ann My favorite blue flowers are my morning glories
So Blue…
- is a primary color
- is a color associated with harmony and confidence
- has a cool recessive quality
- appears elegant and serene with white and pastel shades
- is calming in a scheme
- is enlivened when mixed with its complementary Orange
- creates a feeling of distance when placed at the end of a border
- has a stabilizing effect when used with “hot” or bright colors
Diana Smith My real blue tree.
Dot Baker’s glowing blue and teal
Cool blue lupine contrasts with hosta
Barb Buckley’s stunning ladder packed with blue glass and ceramic
Billie Hayman’s tall delphiniums
Blue lobelia in Marie Niemann’s garden
Nancy K. Meyer My colorful chandler, made with turquoise-blue insulators
Christine Henson’s Forget-me-nots
Botanical Blues
True blue flowers are the rarest of blooms, but they can be found or even crafted in your garden. Annuals are Lobelia, Violas, Pansies, Morning Glories and Petunias.
Perennials are Salvia, Flax, Columbine and Lavender.
Blue bulbs to try are Grape hyacinth, Delphinium, Camas lily, Allium, Scilla and Iris.
Sue Shearer Here is part of my ‘blue.’
Barb Wentling’s morning glories climb the blue bottle tree.
Blue will add a little romance to your garden. How much you create with blue,…is up to you!
