With anticipated one to three inches of rain this week, I'm taking the opportunity to plant winter and spring blooming flower seeds. This year I'm going to add one of my favorite colors to my landscape. I planted delphiniums in the back of my border garden. Delphiniums take full sun, moderate moisture, and grow to three feet tall. The seeds will take two weeks to emerge and will bloom January through March.
Other cool season blue annuals that will thrive in Florida are lobelias, pansies, and veronica. Blue flowering perennials and ornamental shrubs to add to your landscape include agapanthus, hydrangea, salvias, and plumbago.
Blue is such a scarcely used color in most landscapes, and so attractive mixed with whites, pinks or yellows. I have the lovely little sky-blue mistflower, a Florida native, in my butterfly garden,where the bees love it.
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