{"id":10731,"date":"2017-02-25T03:35:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T03:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10731"},"modified":"2017-02-15T09:18:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T09:18:12","slug":"blue-leaved-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/design\/blue-leaved-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Leaved Plants and Shrubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Prostrate Juniper by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3131372230\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3081\/3131372230_e3573b6936.jpg\" alt=\"Prostrate Juniper\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blue is not the colour you associate with foliage but if you can bend your eyes just a little around the silver &#8211; grey through to green spectrum there may be some surprises.<\/p>\n<h2>In Praise of Blue Foliage<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A very distinctive colour attracts the eye in a uniformly green garden<\/li>\n<li>Blue works very well with dark coloured leaves such as purples<\/li>\n<li>Blue tends to increase the perceived depth of view making blue recede.<\/li>\n<li>A fine blue line separates glaucous leaves and silver foliage.<\/li>\n<li>Perception of colour is best left to the beholder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Blue Leaved Primulas<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The bloom or farina on may primulas can look blue. See the Primula kewensis at the foot of the page.<\/li>\n<li>Auriculas often display the blue dust.<\/li>\n<li>Primrose &#8216;Arctic Blue&#8217; has deep green leaves but on a frosty morning their foliage turns to shades of icy blue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Cerinthe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4629273832\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4011\/4629273832_351418fe79.jpg\" alt=\"c\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Perennial Plant selection <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oregonlive.com\/homesandgardens\/2010\/07\/in_plants_blue_is_a_chameleon.html\">from The Oregon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Acaena &#8216;Blue Haze&#8217;<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>Cynara cardunculus (cardoon)<\/li>\n<li>Dianthus gray blue<\/li>\n<li>Dicentra &#8216;Stuart Boothman,&#8217; &#8216;Langtrees&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Eryngium (more gray-green, but you can&#8217;t beat those blue bracts)<\/li>\n<li>Euphorbia (lots, particularly &#8216;Portuguese Velvet&#8217;)<\/li>\n<li>Hosta (tons, check out &#8216;Albiqua Drinking Gourd&#8217; as well as classics such as H. sieboldiana &#8216;Elegans&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Mertensia asiatica,<\/li>\n<li>Ruta graveolens &#8216;Jackman&#8217;s Blue&#8217; (rue)<\/li>\n<li>Sedum &#8216;Bertram Anderson&#8217; ( blue bruised purple), S. telphium, S. cauticola and some other succulent plants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Shrubs and trees<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"Picea pungens 'Montgomery' by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5973021785\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6134\/5973021785_c1790641cc.jpg\" alt=\"Picea pungens 'Montgomery'\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Abies pinsapo &#8216;Glauca,&#8217; &#8216;Hortmann&#8217; (blue Spanish pin fir)<\/li>\n<li>Cedrus atlantica &#8216;Glauca&#8217; (blue atlas cedar)<\/li>\n<li>Cupressus glabra &#8216;Blue Ice&#8217; (Arizona cypress)<\/li>\n<li>Eucalyptus (close your eyes and pick)<\/li>\n<li>Hebe (quite a few silver-blue, including H. albicans, H. x wardiensis and H. pimeleoides &#8216;Quicksilver&#8217;)<\/li>\n<li>Juniperus squamata &#8216;Blue Carpet,&#8217; J. virginiana &#8216;Blue Mountain&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Melianthus major<\/li>\n<li>Picea pungens (Colorado blue spruce &#8212; an awesome selection)<\/li>\n<li>Rosa glauca<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Grasses<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Andropogon virginicus glauca &#8216;Valdosta Blue&#8217; (good old gorgeous bluestem)<\/li>\n<li>Elymus magellanicus (a very blue form of Lyme grass)<\/li>\n<li>Festuca cinerea &#8216;Elijah Blue&#8217; (blue fescue)<\/li>\n<li>Helictotrichon sempervirens (blue oat grass; check out &#8216;Sapphire&#8217;)<\/li>\n<li>Panicum virgatum &#8216;Dallas Blues,&#8217; &#8216;Prairie Sky&#8217; and of course &#8216;Heavy Metal&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Leymus arenarius<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0304362883\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0304362883.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Primula Kewensis by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4131446496\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2676\/4131446496_38cf74afc9.jpg\" alt=\"Primula Kewensis\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rockery plants often take on a blue hue. The plants that display blue may be reacting to moisture more than chlorophyll<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Bukiniczia cabulica by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4130692693\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2618\/4130692693_6220eefaa1.jpg\" alt=\"Bukiniczia cabulica\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your garden makes you feel blue try these blue plants to shock and awe the locals&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}