Blue Sky Flowers Plants

Their dainty flowers are endearing with porcelain sky blue flowers dotted with golden eyes.

Blue sky flowers plants. The 20 to 30 foot climber envelops its support in leathery heart shaped evergreen foliage and nodding clusters of pale blue. The color blue is rare in nature and thus blue flowering plants are very popular. Department of agriculture zone 8. How to care for the blue sky vine.

Agapanthus africanus is known as the lily of the nile the african blue lily or just african lily. My summer life will not be complete unless i find proven winners sky blue lobelia to pot in a hanging plantar under my crabapple tree out front. This is one fast growing vinelike the famous bunny it keeps going and going and going. Everyone stopped to comment as i combined it with purple supertunias and had a darling white 2 story birdhouse next to the plants.

The amount of blue ness in a blue flowered plant varies from genus to genus from a saturated royal blue to sky blue to a more purple tinted lavender blue. Blue sky flower naturally ranges from china fujian guangdong guangxi hainan yunnan india myanmar thailand and vietnam but has also naturalized in tropical regions worldwide. In frost free areas this heat and sun loving vine is evergreen and can flower throughout the year. The name for the genus honors the swedish naturalist carl peter thunberg 1743 1828 who was a student of linnaeus and spent several years botanizing the cape of good hope.

No matter which blue you want we probably have it. The genus agapanthus contains about 10 species all with large clusters of flowers in shades of blue or white. The flowers are somewhat lily like. Native to india this plant thrives in sunset climate zones 16.

The blue sky vine is a vigorous and hardy tropical vine that can be grown as a tuberous rooted summer flowering perennial into zone 8b. Last year it was a show stopper believe me. An ever blooming perennial in us. The blue sky vine thunbergia grandiflora grows rapidly covering trellises and walls with vines that may reach heights of 20 feet.

It is grown from a fleshy rhizome and can be dug and stored for the winter in cooler areas. Easy to grow from seed not all forget me nots are the same botanical plant. Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 9 through 11 and tender perennial in usda zone 8 its a summer blooming annual in colder areas. Morning glory varieties can also come in pink red purple and white.

Blue flowering plants are a rarity in south florida and this vines incredibly beautiful clusters of blue violet blooms light up the landscape with their unusual color and sheer size. An easier plant to grow in heat is the cynoglossom amabile or chinese forget. The old fashioned ones are myosotis sylvatica naturally a woodland plant.