Sunshine Blue II is a new, improved variety of the classic Sunshine Blue, but it’s much more tolerant of cold climates. If you’ve had trouble with bluebeard surviving winter in your area in the past, now’s your chance to enjoy the vivid gold foliage and blue blooms of this late blooming favorite. An excellent plant for attracting pollinators!

The proud parent of that superb Blooms of Bressingham plant C. ‘Blue Waterfalls, this selection is a champion in its own right with an aggressive, ground covering nature. This Campanula is terrifically drought resistant, loves full sun or partial shade, and puts on a lavender-blue flower show in May and June that colorfully dresses its flowing deep green foliage.

This meadow native is a perfect, long-blooming addition to any sunny garden. Upright stems are tipped with buds that open continuously throughout the summer to show off nodding, blue, bell-shaped flowers that are highly sought by native pollinators.

A vigorous low-growing, spreading plant ideal for the front of a border, hanging basket, or container garden. Deep blue 1″ flowers, with a bit of white in the center, cover this plant from June into July and even into fall.

Beautiful violet-blue Bellflowers are held in tight clusters and bloom profusely above the compact mounds of dark green foliage. Attracting butterflies, hummingbirds, and honeybees with its bright blooms from late spring into the summer. Compact habit is perfect for small areas, borders and containers. Although no plant is completely deer proof this perennial is considered to be deer resistant. A favorite for cottage and butterfly gardens.

One of the most charming of the popular perennial Bellflowers, Fairy Thimble forms a low mat of tiny spoon shaped green leaves bearing loads of tiny little dangling lavender-blue bells in early summer. This selection thrives in moist, very well drained soil and will travel into any unused ground by means of stolons. While an opportunist that looks to fill any small hole in the landscape, it’s too small to displace or overrun any larger plants making it a truly splendid “filler” between larger perennial clumps. If it does spread into areas where it isn’t wanted, it is easily removed. Perfect for growing among rocks, in alpine troughs, container gardens on walls and between paving stones, Fairy Thimble will thrive in full sun or partial shade. And, if you are looking for a groundcover to munch on, its leaves and flowers are edible with a mild pleasant flavor, whether sprinkled over salads to be eaten raw or cooked with other greens.

From late spring to late summer, ‘Rapido Blue’ will delight you and your Hummingbird friends with copious mounds of cup shaped, violet blue flowers and dense, dark green foliage. Don’t struggle with trying to decide where to plant this oh-so-versatile beauty! You’ll want them everywhere, in the border, showcased alone or as the “fill” in a mixed container, as perky, colorful edging, a bright addition to a rock garden, or as an impressive mass planting.

One look will tell you this is not your normal Bellflower! Originating in Austria, this plant has developed a slew of fans worldwide with its pleasing green serrated foliage and its terrific, dense, upright landscape form that is resistant to breaking or flopping, a troublesome trait exhibited by many other upright growing selections. The plant form is superb but its biggest claim to fame are its flower spikes that form in early June carrying big, fat buds above the foliage. These buds begin to open in mid-June producing big, long, pendulous, deeply purple tubular bells into early August. It’s a breathtaking display for the middle of any well-drained, sunny garden that will be enhanced if they are planted in a group. Don’t be afraid to cut a few to bring in the house, too!

A dense mound of foliage provides the backdrop for flower stems bearing huge buds that open in late May through June to show off huge, 2″ long dangling tubular bells of deep blue colored bloom. Easy to grow, this selection maintains its neat form while providing masses of color especially when grouped in the front or middle of a garden or when used to help color up a mixed container on a deck.

Prolific star-shaped, lavender-blue flowers with a light center eye. A vigorous grower, flowering from May to June. ‘Blue Rivulet’ has a graceful spreading habit, with masses of pristine flowers atop small heart-shaped leaves. Perfect in a front border, as a bright groundcover, rock gardens, mixed containers, or hanging baskets to tempt the hummingbirds.