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Friday, July 1, 2011

Purple Flowers


Allium schoenoprasum May 2010

Aubrieta deltoidea March 2010

Clematis x jackmanii August 2010

Pulsatilla vulgaris May 2010

Geranium phaeum May 2010

Purple lends richness and depth to the garden.  Purple flowers blend well with red & blue, contrast with yellow & orange.  Purple flowers look especially beautiful against blue-gray foliage.  I have included a range of flowers with colors from pale lavender to purple-black.  You may find that some tend toward red, blue or pink.  But these are all lovely purple or purple-ish flowers. 

Tree
Pawlonia tomentosa (Empress Tree): sun

Shrubs
Daboecia cantabrica (Irish Heath): sun
Lavandula stoechas (Spanish Lavender): sun, xeric
Rosa ‘Ebb Tide’ (Floribunda Rose) Rosa ‘Neptune’ (Hybrid Tea Rose) Rosa ‘Night Owl’ (Climbing Rose): sun

Perennials
Anemone blanda ‘Radar’ (Windflower): shade
Aster ‘Hella Lacy’ (Michaelmas Daisy): sun
Baptisia ‘Purple Smoke’ (False Indigo): sun
Cerinthe major ‘Purpurascens’: reseeding annual, sun
Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove): reseeding biennial, sun or shade
Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower): sun
Erysimum ‘Bowles Mauve’ (Wallflower): sun
Fritillaria persica (Persian Fritillary): sun
Geranium phaeum (Mourning Widow): sun or shade
Helleborus x hybridus, Helleborus lividus (Hellebore): shade, tolerates dryness
Liatris spicata (Gayfeather): sun
Perovskia atriplicifolia (Russian Sage): sun
Pulmonaria longifolia (Lungwort): shade
Pulsatella vulgaris (Pasque Flower): sun
Tradescantia virginiana (Spiderwort): shade
Tricyrtis ‘Empress’ (Toad Lily): shade
Verbena bonariensis (Verbena): sun
Zantedeschia ‘Black Pearl’ (Calla Lily): sun, needs moisture

Groundcovers & Trailers
Liriope muscari (Lily Turf): shade, tolerates dryness
Mazus reptans (Creeping Mazus): sun

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