Blue is the rarest floral color. Furthermore, many flowers that appear blue are somewhat purplish, or perhaps more purple than blue. These six all look blue to me, although I can not see blue very well.
1. Iris unguicularis, Algerian iris has been blooming long enough for a third appearance here in four months. That may seem to be redundant, but it is my favorite for this week. I still do not know when to expect its last blooms. It is from Tangley Cottage Gardening.
2. Viola cornuta, viola exhibits more insect damage than I was aware of when I took this picture. Well, this is embarrassing. I do not select annuals at work, but I do enjoy taking credit for them. These bloom longer here than they would within the Santa Clara Valley.
3. Viola X wittrockiana, pansy also performs better here than in the Santa Clara Valley. These blue pansies alternate with white pansies, which I prefer; but I took this picture to conform to the blue theme. We have not yet found any color that is not appropriate here.
4. Hyacinthus orientalis, hyacinth blooms thinly on floppy stems in partial shade, but is impressively reliably perennial. We should probably move the bulbs while dormant, but would prefer to instead remove an unwanted bay laurel tree that shades their landscape.
5. Ceanothus thyrsiflorus, California lilac is both locally native and added to at least one of our landscapes. Unfortunately, it is not easy to accommodate. It grew too large for its particular applications, but is difficult to prune properly without removing its best parts.
6. Myosotis sylvatica, forget-me-not is naturalized here, but not too aggressively so. It is pretty near but not within cultivated landscapes, where it can benefit from supplemental irrigation without incurring damage from weeding, raking and other gardening activity.
This is the link for Six on Saturday, for anyone else who would like to participate: https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/six-on-saturday-a-participant-guide/
Tony Tomeo 
Blue is my favourite flower colour, I love them all!
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Splendid! As you know, it is gratifying that others enjoy one’s flowers.
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I love ceanothus !
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It is rad in the wild, but is difficult to accommodate within refined gardens. I am surprised that it is as popular as it is in some regions outside of its native range.
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Hi Tony
Nevertheless, the blue flower became famous as the Blue Flower of the Romantics from the novel (fragment) of “Heinrich von Ofterdingen” by Novalis. It’s the symbol of longing.
Happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Blue is the most elusive floral color, so it makes sense that they represent longing. Oddly, some of the most common flowers here happen to be blue, as if they compensate for their rarity with abundance. Lily of the Nile was formerly one of the most common perennials. Jacaranda was formerly so common as street trees that blue stripes can still be seen across Los Angeles by those who happen to fly over during bloom.
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Meconopsis are my favourite blues and I am lucky enough to have the right conditions to grow them in.
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Goodness! Meconopsis are about as blue as a flower can get! I have seen it only in pictures, but have been impressed.
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Hope you don’t mind but here is a link to my meconopsis post, all grown from seed bar one, in my last garden before I had to downsize, I thought you might be interested. https://ricksplantworld.blog/2022/02/09/meconopsis/
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No, I do not mind.
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Goodness; ‘Hensol Violet’ is impressive also, although not so much so as the splendid blue of the simple species. Although white is my favorite color, I think that it would be less impressive for these perfectly blue flowers.
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It is lovely to see some spring flowers, and blue is such a wonderful (but elusive) colour too. The Myosotis is probably the bluest. 😃
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Most of these will be finished before spring. Pansies and violas can last through spring, or at least until the weather gets warm, but are technically cool season annuals here. Algerian iris blooms for winter. I do not know when forget-me-not should bloom, but it dislikes warm spring weather here. Hyacinth can bloom later if it wants to, but chooses to bloom now. Ceanothus is native, so knows to not bloom too late.
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So often, people who like a blue flower think that a darker blue must be even better; it rarely is. Dark blue vanishes into the background.
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Dark blue tends to look purplish anyway. I find sky blue to be most compelling. We got a single sport of lily of the Nile that blooms very pale blue that is captivating, but I suspect that it will eventually revert back to typical blue.
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I love blue flowers of any kind. Are those True Blue pansies?
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They are pansies, and they look blue to me. That may not mean much, since I do not see purple so well. They could be more purplish than they seem to be to me.
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Crystal Bowl ‘True Blue’ is my favorite Blue pansy. That looks like it.
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Oh, so ‘True Blue’ is a variety of the Crystal Bowl group. I see now that it is capitalized. I suspect that it is a ‘Crystal Bowl’ pansy of some sort, since that is the most common set of varieties for pansies of solid color (with that yellow spot in the middle). So, if ‘True Blue’ is the standard ‘Crystal Bowl’ blue pansy, then this is likely it.
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