Cool Colors Flower Garden The 30 plants in this flower garden are all shades of mauve, blue, lavender
and purple. These cool colors create a restful, peaceful garden. All are
perennials whose beauty will return to delight you year after year. All are
hardy at least to zone 5 and most to zone 3 or 4.
The plants in this flower garden range from the feathery plumes of purple astilbe (Astilbe chinensis) to the lavender blue spikes of Farrer's Ladybells
(Adenophora confusa), from the
gray-blue foliage of Hadspen Blue hosta (Hosta ‘Hadspen Blue’) to the dusty blue-gray
flowers of Russian Sage
(Perovskia atriplicifolia).
Flowering begins in early spring with purple Siberian Iris (Iris
siberica) and lasts through
the final burst of autumn glory with ironweed (Vernonia noveboracensis)
and New England Aster (Aster novae-angliae). The plants in this
flower garden include a wide
variety of sizes, shapes, textures and bloom types and have varying light
and moisture requirements.
Use this deck to plan your Cool Colors flower garden. To complete your design,
we’ve included cool-toned foliage plants, ground covers and shrubs for
texture, form and winter interest. Blue-tinged evergreens would be a nice
addition as well.
