Blue flowers can work with any garden aesthetic as long as you know which other plants to pair them with. Learn how to style blue blooms in your outdoor space.

When temperatures lock in at 90 degrees and above, we will do most anything to make it seem cooler. One option is to plant cool rather than warm colors in the garden. Perhaps these summer blues ...

Polemoniums offer robust pinnate foliage and, for certain species, sprays of powder blue to lavender flowers in summer. Species such as P. caeruleum, which also has a variegated form ...

Delphiniums contain the blue to purple anthocyanin delphinidin, also found in other blue or purple flowers and fruits, blueberries for example. Delphinium Blue Nile (1.5m tall), with semi-double ...

Roses are red, violets are blue. Except they’re not. They’re, er, violet. True blue flowers are exceedingly rare, and not for lack of effort. Plant breeders have repeatedly tried to nudge ...

The blue flowers also pair well with any plant that has silver or gray foliage, including lavender, lamb’s ears, dusty miller, artemisia, and salvia. Gardening with George Weigel.

The scientists introduced genes from two other flowers that allowed the mums to mimic the chemical process producing blue pigment. This might be applicable to other flowers, like roses and lilies.

And even then, most “blue” flowers are simply a variation on lavender. Please, don’t get me started on (dyed) blue carnations tarted up for a national holiday.

Plenty of flowers are bluish, but it’s rare to find true blue in nature, says Naonobu Noda, a plant researcher at the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization near Tsukuba, Japan, and ...

The growing process for blue-poppies. Longwood's research team became interested in raising their own blue-poppies when a graduate student, Shannon Still, was writing his thesis on the plant in 2002.

Various blue flowers from our study. (Supplied)Why understanding blue flowers is important. About a third of our food depends on insect pollination. However, world populations of bees and other ...