Northeast Gardening: SPRING 2013 #3, 1 by Pfg

Pfg wrote:
The blue garden in embryo... It all started because of the Platycodons a friend gave me 2 years ago, dug up from her garden in the middle of the summer because she couldn't make the color ' fit in.' I took them home, one looked like it wouldn't make it, but the other kept right on blooming. I fell in love with them then. Then last year they both came up strong and glorious, but much to my dismay, I realized that they didn't fit in there either. :-(. Too close to red, red roses, and lots of purple on the other side. Yikes! So this year I moved them to their own section far away, the trellis garden started last summer with a very different idea in mind.

Blues recede, and these are farther from the house, so I have to figure that out, I know. Meanwhile, I've been just stuffing that area with everything blue I come across: Ceanothus Marie Bleu, Veronica Sunny Border Blue, Dracocephalum, both annuals and perennials, even Lobelia Crystal Palace, the blue-blue one. I also have a bunch of blue flowering trade plants in pots, waiting to see how it all looks together before planting in the ground. Jekyll and Hobhouse say pale yellow and cream make blues pop, maybe other pastels that don't just make them look dark...

Just another Work in Progress, lol...