![]() ![]() While the delphiniums are in their autumn blue period, Helen plans more blue for spring by sowing cornflower seed. Helen cuts them to ground level as soon as the first flowers To keep them upright, and are greedy feeders hungry for handfuls of chicken manure pellets. Has such miraculous presence, such celestial spires and such a tiresome list of requirements!” They need protection from queues of slugs, require stakes “Delphiniums are unequalled in summer,” says Helen. Yet she says the reality never met herĮxpectations: “it never looked quite blue enough.” That’s because there are not that many truly blue flowers and Helen has to be content with mauveĪnd lilac creeping into her blue border. One of my favourite gardens is Helen Dillon’s lovely place in Dublin where she has made a gorgeous blue border. Sandra Ross sings the praises of the blues, and finds inspiration from fine gardens around the world for using azure, cornflower, powder, navy, violet, lavender and mauve in our planting palettes. Gardeners the world over love blue flowers. Think delphinium, salvia, aster, larkspur, pansy, iris, bluebell, hyacinth, lobelia, veronica and ageratum. ![]()
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