The color blue aids relaxation, which makes it a great choice for the flowering plants in your yard. Here are 11 trees and shrubs with strikingly blue blooms.

Some of the best dried flowers are strawflowers, celosia, statice, baby’s breath, lavender, amaranth, roses, and hydrangeas.

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Caryopteris Dark Knight is a compact mounding shrub growing 3-4’ tall and wide. It has fragrant, deep blue-purple flowers backed by silver-gray foliage.

One shrub I particularly like is the dwarf blue leaf arctic willow (Salix purpurea Nana) It's fine-textured with narrow stems and blue-green foliage. It develops into a compact mounded shrub ...

Then there's Pugster Blue butterfly bush, Diamond Spire gardenia, and loropetalum- Purple Daydream or Dwarf Crimson Fire. Purple Pixie dwarf loropetalum has a weeping form, which is neat.

Almost everyone wants color in the landscape, and flowerbeds play an important role in that. But it takes a lot of work to ...

Purple Pixie® Dwarf Weeping Loropetalum is available from garden centers as potted plants that are easy to transplant into the garden in spring or fall.

#1 Shrub for Foundation Plantings There are the old-fashioned spiraeas with lacy white flowers such as ‘Bridal Wreath' that are quite large, as well as many new dwarf cultivars of spiraea on the ...

Blue is the rarest flower color, seen on only 10 percent of the 280,000 flowering plants on Earth.Among those who specialize in color analysis, it is sometimes claimed that, in reality, there has n… ...

Be warned that dwarf blue periwinkle, although a moderate grower, does have a shallow, spreading rooting system and may advance beyond the borders you intended.