Butterflies are important pollinators and look beautiful fluttering around your yard. These blue fast-growing flowers are ...

True blue flowers are rare, making up less than 10% of the naturally occurring bloom color. While natural blue orchids do exist, such as the Blue Vanda and the Blue Lady orchid, they are not ...

Additionally, the flowers of blue mistflower provide late-season nectar for pollinators, further contributing to a healthy and thriving garden ecosystem. Read the original article on Outdoor Guide.

That makes genetically engineering a blue flower tricky, since you can't just make a straightforward tweak and expect a garden full of unnatural hues. Scientists have just managed a breakthrough ...

Roses are red, violets are blue. Except they’re not. They’re, er, violet. True blue flowers are exceedingly rare, and not for lack of effort. Plant breeders have repeatedly tried to nudge ...

But not all flowers are able to produce blue pigments. The light-scattering nanostructures provide an alternative way to attract pollinating insects, the scientists believe.

Since both Blue My Mind varieties have the ability to perform for a very long season it pays to prepare your bed properly. I like to work in 3 to 4 inches of organic matter, along with 2 pounds of ...