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I've GOT to try those delphiniums, they're amazing. What a joy to see all that dazzling color in January. Oh wow, gottagarden! Your pictures of your garden are inspiring. Very effective! And little to no bare earth, I like that. My kind of garden and color scheme - a rich assortment of plants in the color range you have, and not being afraid to use some of the more intense hues with paler ones. There are also lots of shorter veronicas that have spiky inflorescences. I forget the cultivar names, ?'Blue something?. You don't mention any veronicas, but there are definitely some taller 3' range plants that will do well for you. One hardy one that is a bit harder to find but really worth having is S. There would be many, many salvias beyond what you mentioned that would fir this bill, including many of the tender perennials that are commonly planted as annuals. Hard to find - Arrowhead alpines carries it. But it is such a unique plant that I bet you would love it, especially for some shade. It may be a bit more shrub like than strict spires, though the flowering stems are long and semiupright. Tall airy wands of flowers dance above the leaves. I got mine at a NARGS plant sale for a pittance, just to try, and it has become one of my favorite plants of fall. But worth a try.Ī little known plant for part shade that excels in beautiful though somewhat airy purple blue spires, and in the fall when they may be hard to come by other than aconitums and delph encores, is Rabdosia longituba.

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The need cool bright moisture retentive growing conditions, tricky in areas with hot summers (most areas that are warmer than you) since full sun will be too hot and shade won't have enough light.

The July blooming 'Sparks variety' and the fall blooming A. You oughta be cool enough where you are to successfully grow aconitums. It blooms for weeks at the peak of 'high summer', and has beautiful whorled foliage that give it an architectural form lacking in even most other spiky plants.

No zone 5 garden should be without at least several cultivars of this wonderful native. You did not mention Veronicastrum virginicum 'Fascination', which is a powdery lavendar with pinkish overcasts (but it definitely 'reads' in the lavendar not the pink range). So yes, therefore, I am definitely a fan of spiky blue plants. And I also think that most gardens with lots of perennials do not have enough spikey forms, which contrast beautifully with the much more common amorphous mounding plants. I am definitely a 'gardener's blue' fan (really, purple and lavendar, since true blues are quite uncommon among N temperate garden plants and I don't tend to really like them anyway). Veronica - still trying some new varietiesĪny specific cultivars you'd recommend? (deeper color and taller spikes?)Īnyone else out there got a love for purple spires? Iris, iris, iris! - the tall bearded and the dwarfĬampanula persicifolia - great foliage too Penstemons - only have 2 that are hardy to zone 5, I need some new varieties that are larger, like I used to grow in CA Verbena bonariensis - not quite a 'spire' but a lovely cloud Can't pass up trying a new oneĭelphiniums - I grow 'magic fountains' because they don't need staking and have a wonderful deep dark color Salvias - may night, blue queen, indigo spires, etc. In my head I call them 'purple spires', and I love the way they go with everything. Ha! I had to laugh because I recognize myself in that statement. If you have any questions, please call Customer Service toll-free at (877) 309-7333 or contact us by email.On a previous post about nepeta walkers low I saw Jackied write - For me blue spikey flowers are why I garden.

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