Blue Daisy
By LoveToKnow
Blue Daisy (Agathaea) - A. caelestis is a tender spreading Daisy-like plant, with blue flowers useful for the margins of beds. It is among the prettiest of the half-hardy bedding plants, but is not so good on cold soils.
( Astrid Thomas Blue Daisy )
Astrid Thomas is a shrubby perennial or annual depending upon climate. It is a member of the daisy family, native to South Africa with blue daisy flowers, over 1 inch wide with yellow centers.
Blue Daisy (Felicia amelloides)
Blue Danube Stokesia (Stokesia laevis 'Blue Danube')
Blue Elder (Sambucus caerulea)
Blue Elderberry (Sambucus caerulea)
Blue Fescue (Festuca ovina glauca)
Blue Flame (Myrtillocactus cochal)
Blue Flax (Linum perenne) ...
Centaurea cyanus (cornflower): Dark blue daisy-like flowers from late spring to mid-summer.
Limnanthes douglasii (poached egg plant): Numerous cup-shaped yellow-centred white flowers from summer to autumn.
Frikart's aster is often seen as a potted dome, about a 1 ft (0.3 m) tall and wide, covered with dozens of lavender-blue daisylike flowers, each about two and half inches in diameter and highlighted with a yellow center.
This Aster from the Himalayas and Pakistan has lavender-blue daisy flowers. The petals are widespread and slender, splayed out round the forward thrusting yellow boss.
The first two photos (snapped in June) are of a clump that produces blue daisy-like flowers that could be called "singles," but the third photo below (snapped about mid-July) shows a typical flower from another clump, which could be called a "double.
Masses of long lasting lavender-blue daisy-like flowers with orange centres from August to September and dark green leaves. These charming Michaelmas daisies are ideal for a mixed or herbaceous border with well-drained moderately fertile soil.
Single one inch, pale blue daisy-like flowers on a compact mound of green all summer. Resembles Felicia or Brachycomb - but it's hardy! Very popular in Europe and deserves much more recognition here.
 See also: Daisy, Green, Orange, May, Aster
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