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- for those of you not up on your train spotting it is Mallard which generally sported a blue livery, so suggestions for blue flowers with which to plant it --- please

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OK so which would you recommend Dave - bearing in mind tht I grow veg and flowers ain't my strong point

The blue ones from this catalogue:

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Now if I had done that, I would of been dragged around the back and giving a good kicking, Yes Penny the majority of Polemoniums are blue.

And to go with your Polemonium, which are summer flowering, you could also look for blue Primulas, Veronica georgia blue, and various Brunnera, Pulmonaria, and Ajuga, which are all spring flowering; Scilla non-scripta (English bluebells) for late spring (plant in autumn); Triteleia (aka Brodiae) queen fabiola for early summer (plant autumn & mulch over winter or plant spring); Platycodon (eg sentimental blue) for summer; Penstemon heterophyllus true blue for late summer; blue Asters for early autumn; and blue hardy Geraniums, and Gentians which could be in flower spring/summer/autumn, depending which one you get. Get things which are in flower so you're sure they're blue - a lot of flowers which claim to be blue are actually purple or lilac. Oh - and you could get seeds for Centaurea (cornflowers) and Scabiosa - both very easy, just bung them in where you want them to grow.

Here's my Veronica georgia blue, which I reckon is the blue-est, apart from the Gentians (I don't have any of those 'cos they're generally not frost hardy & I don't have a greenhouse):

Maybe a google image search for the rest, save you a long string of my photos

Hope that should give you some ideas! Let me know if you want any more.

Wow - thanks Juliet Loads of ideas Hopefully I should be able to get it planted up with flowers almost all year

I had a couple more thoughts after posting last night - lots of blue sages - I have Salvia mainacht:

You can also get various blue bedding plants, if you don't mind faffing around changing it every year. A friend from another board did this last year:
(hoping he doesn't mind my pinching his photo!) but I can't remember what they are - some sort of summer bedding thingies - I can ask him if you like.

I shouldn't have said Ajuga though - realised that it likes to have its feet wet, so not really good for a planter.

And Veronica is supposed to be a bit invasive - probably OK in a planter, but I wouldn't put it next to anything fragile that it can strangle.

There's Vinca, too - also rather invasive, but the Vinca minors are better than the Vinca majors (Vinca major is very very invasive & should be avoided) - flowers on & off for ages & is evergreen, so would give some winter colour.

OK, I'll stop now ...

For a more compact look what about Ageratum ...

the ajuga doesn't mind containers. Got mine in an old lav and it does fine and it can dry out completely and bounce back Advantage of lovely bronze foliage anorl. Lovely deep blue variety mine is

Those dark blue petunias are fab and good weather resistance. F1 but the name escapes me

I must've been unlucky then Wardy - have Ajuga in my clay-ey garden & it dried out in the autumn when it was sunny (as opposed to the summer, obviously ) & got awful powdery mildew. Hoping it will have recovered over the winter - it is a lovely blue.

Lobelia's will fill in gaps dead easy in the summer

they sure do

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Beautiful colour combination Wards

fab isn't it?

Wardy's awesome beanrigs were what inspired me to grow at home in my flowerbeds

donchya just love it - all this veggie and flowers lark. Can't imagine one without the other me

Those purpley things next to the lobelia are bulls blood beets. The foliage can be used too - chucked in yer salad, very crispy and tasty