Azurea/azureus/azureum Azure or deep blue.
B & B Balled and burlapped, a method of digging and holding woody plants.
Baccate Pulpy, fleshy.
Anchusa azurea 'Dropmore' - Blue bugloss - (Boraginaceae) Bugloss bears tubular, usually blue flowers with five spreading lobes. Dropmore has large, lance-shaped, hairy, gray-green leaves and amethyst-blue flowers and reaches 24 to 36 inches.
Blue sage (Salvia azurea), Zones 9-10 (stalks are wispy; flowers are sky blue in color) ...
Italian Bugloss (Anchusa azurea) Much like Amsonia, Anchusa looks better and self-seeds less if sheared back after flowering. Anchusa can be sheared all the way back to the crown, since its foliage declines rapidly after flowering.
Most gardeners are familiar with the truly hardy perennial salvias, among them Salvia azurea, Salvia officinalis, S. x superba (a catchall that includes S. nemorosa and S. x sylvestris), and their cultivars. All are cold tolerant to Zones 4 or 5.
Humber Nurseries Ltd. & Butterfly Conservatory: P. angustifolia ssp. azurea, P. longifolia, P. 'Bertram Anderson', P. officinalis 'Sissinghurst White', P. 'Pierre's Pure Pink', P. 'Smokey Blue', P. rubra 'David Ward'.
Also known as Italian Alkanet
Anchusa azurea
Boraginaceae Family
Synonym: Anchusa italica ...
 See also: Flower, Plant, Perennial, Spring, Bloom
  
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