Something About
Mary
'Exclusive
Blue' poem
Mary's Blue
Plants
Mary's Blue Links
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Mary
Something About
Mary
'Exclusive
Blue' poem
Mary's Blue
Plants
Mary's Blue Links
E-mail
Mary
(who's hardly EVER contrary...)
her obsession goes one step further...
she's driven to grow every blue-blooming plant that exists.
And she's made a pretty good start!
some of the more successful blue (or nearly blue)
blooms of Mary's gardens.
EXCLUSIVE
BLUE
Her flowers were exclusive
blue.
No other color scheme would do.
Better than God she could reject
Being a gardener more select.
Blue,
blue it was against the
green
With nothing
NOT blue
sown or seen.
Yet secretly she half-confessed
With
blue she was not wholly blessed.
All
blues, she found, do not agree.
Blue riots in variety.
Purist-perfectionist at heart,
Her vision flew beyond her art --
Beyond her art, her touch, her power
To teach one
blue to each
blue flower.
-- Robert Francis
and pretty maids all in a row....
in Mary's zone 7a
garden:
*Aconitum (monkshood)
*Ajuga (carpet bugle)
*Ampelopsis
brevipedunculata 'Elegans' (porcelain-berry vine)
*Anemone blanda
*Aquilegia (columbine)
*Blue Porter weed
*Buddleia
(butterfly bush) 'Black Knight'
*Buddleia 'Nanho Blue'
*Callicarpa (beautyberry)
*Camassia
*Campanula (various species)
*Caryopteris (bluebeard)
*Centaurea cyanus (cornflowers)
*Centaurea montana (mountain bluet)
*Chionodoxa
*Clematis (various species & varieties)
*Clitoria ternatea (butterfly pea vine)
*Consolida (larkspur)
*Corydalis 'Blue Panda'
*Crocus
*Delphinium (English
hybrid)
*Eryngium (sea holly)
*Eupatorium coelestinum (perennial ageratum)
*Evolvulus 'Blue Daze'
*Geranium, hardy
(not to be confused
with
Pelargoniums)
*Heliotrope
*Hibiscus 'Bluebird'
(rose-of-Sharon, althaea)
*Hosta 'Blue Cadet' (blue foliage)
*Hydrangea macrophylla
'Nikko Blue'
*Iris (various species)
*Lavender (various
species)
*Liatris (gayfeather)
*Limonium (statice)
*Linum perenne (blue flax)
*Lobelia erinus (annual lobelia)
*Mertensia (Virginia
bluebells)
*Muscari (grape hyacinths)
*Myosotis (forget-me-nots)
*Nigella
(love-in-a-mist)
*Passiflora incarnata (passionflower vine)
*Perovskia (Russian
sage)
*Phlox subulata (creeping phlox)
*Platycodon (balloon
flower)
*Plumbago capensis
*Puschkinia scilloides
*Salvia (sage, various species)
*Scabiosa (pincushion flower) 'Butterfly Blue'
*Scaevola aemula
(fanflower)
*Scilla
*Verbena bonariensis
*Veronica 'Georgia Blue'
*Veronica 'Sunny Border Blue'
*Viola (pansies)
*Vitex agnus-castus
(chaste tree)
(....and many more of which I can't
recall.... )
Mary's
(and some shameless self-promotion)
