Guest Author - Hellie T.


Anchusa azurea - Loddon Royalist is a hardy perennial,that likes a sunny spot with fertile but well-drained soil.
It has wonderful clear bright blue flowers in summer and grows to 100cm or 39 inches.

Bugle – Ajuga reptens – A low growing creeping perennial with blue flowers in late spring to early summer. Grows to 15cm or 6 inches.
Likes moist, fertile soil and does best in light shade.

Borage -Borage officinalis - an annual that readily self seeds.
Grows to 1-2 foot or 30 -60cm and has furry grey/green leaves. Prefers a sunny spot with well drained soil. Bees adore it.

Common flax - Linum usitatissimum is a hardy annual that thrives in a sunny spot with well drained soil.
It flowers in summer and bees love it. Common flax grows from 1 -4 foot or 30cm to 1.2m

Jacob’s Ladder - Polemonium caerulem - Brize d'Anjou - a traditional cottage garden plant,it is a hardy perennial that has deep blue flowers in early summer.
It prefers sun or partial shade planted in moist, but well drained soil. Grows to 17 inches or 43cm.

Love-in-a-mist Nigella damascene - Miss Jekyll - has beautiful dark blue flowers in summer. With its delciate foliage and blue flowers which are followed by interesting seed heads it looks lovely in all borders and is good as a cut flower.
It likes a sunny spotand will grow to 21 inches or 50cm.

Viper’s Bugloss Echium vulgare A biennial that likes sunny, well drained soil.It grows to 2-3 foot or 60cm -1m.
The flowers open as pink and turn to a lovely brilliant blue in summer. Self seeds.

Woad - Isatis tinctoria
Flowering in the summer it is a hardy biennial that grows to 4 foot 6 inches or 1.3m.
It prefers rich, fertile soil that is well drained. Woad thrives in a sunny spot and will self seed readily.

Enjoy your garden!