Adding Purple and Blue to Your Flower Garden

Many flowers bloom with a variety of colors throughout their flowering season, and some of the most beautiful are shades of purple. Now, in some cases a “purple” flower might actually look closer to a shade of red, and blue flowers don’t always look quite blue either. But getting exact matching shades is of course possible if you plant the same flowers, but getting shades of a color usually adds much more interest to the garden.

One of my favorite flowers which blooms in a pale lavendar purple color is a Morning Glory. These flowers can come in a whole host of colors, but some varieties rebloom with just certain specific colors instead. Morning glories grow on vines which will climb a trellis, fence, or bush, and they’ll even creep out across the yard in a ground cover like fashion if you let them. The flowers open early in the mornings, and close by midday.

Certain types of Clematis are thought to be purple in color too. The ‘Jackman’ variety is a dark reddish purple which blooms in July. This is also a vine style plant, which will grow from seven to ten feet in full sunlight.

Aster is another flowering plant which comes in various shades of purple. The ‘Professor Kippenburg’ variety has a lovely shade of light purple flowers which look like small daisies. The flower blooms themselves are only about one to two inches in size, but the plant will spread from twelve to eighteen inches and stand eighteen to twenty inches tall too. This version of Aster is popular with butterflies and birds, and it usually blooms from early autumn till the first frost.

The Birch Hybrid Bellflower is an excellent low growing ground cover which only reaches about four inches in height. This plant produces medium purple to bluish colored flowers with a fluted, or bell shape to them. The flowers come out in late spring and will keep blooming till late summer if they’re deadheaded regularly.

Various types of Geraniums also produce flowers in shades of purple or blue. The ‘Brookside’ is one type which has dark purple to blue flowers which bloom from June through August. Geraniums in general have amazingly colorful fall colors too: Oranges, reds, browns, and yellows. So any of the varieties which produce blue or purple flowers really look particularly stunning with all of those colors mixed together.