I was having a sort of blue day earlier when my camera battery died and I couldn’t find the charger or my other camera…..I think Steve has borrowed it. Very frustrating. So I walked around the gardens anyway looking at what was in bloom, and don’t you know it was mainly blue flowers! My garden & I were in sync. Although there weren’t many of them they were so very welcome indeed!
This fantastic plant is lighting up the front border!
Gentiana x macaulayi ‘Kingfisher’ purchased a few years ago at Cady’s Falls Nursery in Morrisville, VT. There are more flowers on than ever and it has been in bloom for a few weeks already. This extended fall has been so great! Cady’s Falls is the nursery that all of us at Rocky Dale Gardens look forward to visiting every year. They grow most their plants on site from seed, cuttings, grafting, etc. And the selection can’t be beat!
Primula ‘Belarina Cobalt’ has sent up a surprise…and it is most welcome indeed! I am hoping it will be full of buds in the spring so I can dig it up for the spring primrose show at Tower Hill Botanical Gardens! I sent for this last spring from Sequim Rare Plants in Sequim, WA. I also ordered a few Primula auricula from them and they sent the biggest most beautiful plants. I highly recommend them.
Here we have another Gentian in the very small rock garden on the west side of the cabin. It bloomed in July and was the most glorious ever. I have moved this plant around so many times trying to find just the right spot for it and now I think I have. It has got a long tongue-twisting name…Gentiana septemfida var. lagodechiana…try saying that three time fast!
And lastly here is my lovely Aconitum x cammarum ‘Bicolor’. This photo doesn’t do it justice. It was huge and full of flowers while draping itself over an Azalea along the stream garden. this one also has never had so many flowers. I think the spring & early summer rains were so beneficial to the gardens along with the cooler temps all summer.
So after the garden stroll and a new knitting project getting cast on I’m feeling much less blue and quite a bit more jazzed about how well the gardens did this year. Time to start planning where to add a few more blue beauties.
Primrose Hill Woodlanders 
Wow, nice! Blues like that are welcome at any time of year, but I feel like they really show off better during the cooler weather. The aconitum is great. I bet it would hate my dry summers though….. but at least I can admire yours!
I have a couple in a much drier garden that are blooming well now too! If I had my camera earlier I would have added a photo of them. Beef up your soil with more compost and give them a try!
Amy, this is a gorgeous posting. I have one blue flowering plant now in my rock garden, some small campanula whose name I have lost temporarily. Thanks for the beautiful photos in my mailbox! Hope you will be feeling “in the pink” long before spring. The lengthening darkness is gloomy.
Hi Annie! And thanks for reading and enjoying my post! It was great seeing you last month at the BBG meeting. I am all ticky-boo now that my camera has been found the batteries charged. Perhaps I will see you again in Worcester in January for the next APS meeting?
The good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise (or the snow cover the highway), I am looking forward to the January meeting. See you then.
Beautiful blue flowers xxx
Thanks so much! And thanks for stopping by!
Love all your blue flowers. You are the second blogger to mention their Belarina primrose blooming now. Mine have never done that. I find monkshood hard to photgraph too.
Thanks for stopping in Carolyn and checking out how I’m doing here on this very occasionally written blog. The primroses send up a few flowers here and there every fall, not many but enough to make me happy!
Oh! the lovely blue gentians! We have one Kingfisher in the trial beds and it was glorious end of October. Great blue Primula!
That Gentian is the best! And it’s still blooming! I had to move it from a sunnier bed to a shadier one and it’s doing to much better. Do you know if it can be grown from cuttings? I need more of it!
It goes easy from cuttings, the only thing it is fussy about here is the substrate- too alkaline and it went a bit chlorotic.