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Salvia farinacea

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Common Name: Victoria Blue
Bloom Season: Spring to Frost
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 14"
Description:

Deep blue flowers, long bloom season When deadheaded. Cut to new growth early spring. Long lived.


Rosmarinus officianalis

Common Name: Rosemary 'Arp'
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 48"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:

Culinary Herb. Hardier variety. Evergreen. Shears nicely to form or keep to size you want.


Nepeta x'Walker's Low'

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Common Name: Catmint 'Walker's Low'
Bloom Season: Spring to Fall
Bloom Color: Lavender
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:

1997 PPA plant of the year.A sterile hybrid. Silver -gray green leaves form a spreading mound to 36" wide. Deer and rabbit resistant.


Garden Notes: Has a long bloom season on larger, neatly mounded plants. Plan on cutting back some to keep tidy in early spring. After a tough winter it may need to be cut back nearly to ground.

Nepeta x faasenii

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Common Name: Catmint 'Select Blue'
Bloom Season: Spring to Fall
Bloom Color: Lavender
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 12"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:

A sterile hybrid. Silver -gray green leaves form a spreading mound to 30" wide. Deer and rabbit resistant. Long bloom season.


Garden Notes: Cut back to new growth in early spring. It is one of the earlier spring blooming plants, so will need to be cleaned up in early to mid March to allow new growth to take off.

Lavandula x intermedia 'Grosso'

Common Name: Lavender
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Summer
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 24"
Description:

Extremely fragrant, with deep violet flowers most of the summer.


Lavandula x intermedia 'DUTCH'

Common Name: Lavender
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 18"
Description:

Robust plant with broad gray leaves, excellent culinary selection.


Lavandula angustifolia 'Provence Blue'

Common Name: Lavender
Bloom Season: Early Summer
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 24"
Description:

Deep blue shades. Stems long enough for cutting.


Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote Blue'

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Common Name: Lavender
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 12"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:

Deepest blue Needs good drainage, compact clay is deadly. Mix in course compost.


Garden Notes: Hidcote Blue grows a little slower and not as tall and showy as 'Provence', 'Dutch', or 'Grosso', but it seems a little hardier overall. It provides a great grey in the garden when not in bloom.

Ceratostigma plumbaginoides

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Common Name: Blue Plumbago
Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 10"
Mature Width: Groundcover
Description:

Good groundcover spreads by rhizomes.Long bloom season with dark blue flowers. Red foliage in fall.


Garden Notes: Keep a border (sidewalk) around this plant to keep in place. Slow to leaf out in spring, sometimes dies to ground by winters, but usually provides hint of red through winter.

Caryopteris x clandonensis

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Common Name: Blue Mist Spirea
Bloom Season: Late Summer
Bloom Color: Blue-Purple
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:

Nice small shrub. Considerable drought tolerance, long bloom period. Cut back to 1/3 its height in spring to encourage heaviest bloom.


Garden Notes: Somewhat short-lived shrub. Can die for no apparent reason. Very long bloom season and neat appearance until that time makes it a shrub worth growing.