When planting flowers, be sure to follow instructions for planting locations and maintenance. Buying plants that thrive in conditions in which you intend to grow them will give you a much fuller and easier to care for garden. A plant that needs full sun will not grow to your expectations if it is planted in shade.

Make sure you water and fertilize you’re your blue garden flowers according to instructions and you will be rewarded with big luscious blooms. Pinching off dead flowers will help plant to grow fuller and produce more flowers.

Other things to consider when planting blue garden flowers include:

• Bloom Time – what timeframe plant will flower in – planting flowers in same areas that have different blooming times will insure a succession of blooms throughout growing season.

• Size – make sure you plant taller plants in back so they don’t obscure view of shorter growing flowers.

Below is a list of some blue and purple colored flowers for your garden:

Verbena - Babylon Blue - Purply blue flower petals on this early bloomer that is great for window boxes and planters.

Catmint - Walkers - This blue flowering perennial shows deep lavender blue flowers on long spikes. It graces us by blooming from June to September and grows to about 10" tall. It does best in a fully sunny spot but can withstand some afternoon shade. Attracts butterflies, hummingbirds and bees.

Corydalis, Blue Panda - This plant produces fragrant stringy sky blue flowers. It blooms in late spring, and sometimes again in fall. Can grow to 12” and likes partial shade with a rich soil.

Males are a handsome lot having a violet head and body with black on wing and tail. Females, youngsters, and first year males are light bellied and look very similar to smaller swallows.

The song of a martin is a distinctive, low pitched liquid rolling twitter and is unmistakeable.

Purple Martins have been known to build their nests in cavities of dead or dying trees, holes in cliffs, or just about anywhere from 3 to 30 feet high. But most popular nesting place for martin is in your own back yard int houses you construct and put up for them. Their nests are made from leaves, grass, straw and twigs and eggs are white and unmarked.