Recently I saw a comment on a photography blog that you don’t see a lot of blue flowers.
That may be true in other places, but not in my garden. Blue is my favorite color and it is well represented in my little piece of the world. Observe:
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I don’t know how many times I’ve tried to photograph these delphiniums. Cameras are hopelessly overwhelmed by the color.
Then again, in real life the petals are a deep, electricity-infused blue. I have volunteer delphiniums in several places. I let them grow where they will because I love their bold punctuation of color.
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These wild geraniums show up a little purple in the photo, but they’re a lovely, violet-tinged blue in real life. They are one of the first things to bloom in my garden each year. The heat is hard on them, so they’re not so showy mid-summer, but they’ll be back again come fall.
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And, the most electric blue of them all, the loved and loathed Bachelor’s Buttons. They grow better than most weeds in all parts of my garden. A self-seeding dynamo, I’ve often speculated that they got their name from a particularly fertile brand of rakish, unmarried man. (But perhaps I read too many romance novels in my youth.) They are also nearly impossible to photograph because their blue simply overwhelms everything else – including, very nearly, this hot yellow flower.
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Here are some other blue wonders from my garden:
All photos taken by me with an iPhone. Various filters were applied to make the blue less eye-searing in a couple of the photos.