Bulbs and Color question? 1. I have crocus, lilly, blue beard iris, huacinth, tulips, narcissus, and...
1. I have crocus, lilly, blue beard iris, huacinth, tulips, narcissus, and elephant ear bulbs. What else is there that would resembling nice in near these?
2. I want some blue flowers that are really pretty, but there aren't alot. What are some blue flowers?
3. Do elephant ears bloom? I saw one within somebodys yard and at hand was a ashen calla lily type flower coming up out of it.
I live in zone 6.
I would put in some Stella dailies they come in wan white and red. I would also use bee balm or blue bonnet flowers for blue color. No elephant ears do not bloom. It could of been of be a Caledonia plant looks like elephant ears from distance but blooms.
1) Daffodils, violets, cyclamen candy tuft, creeping phloxs and miniature roses would mix well if your climate is right. Miniature roses will do better when the weather is space heater.
2) The best blue flower I can come up with is forget-me-nots. They are flowing to grow from seed and ultimate a long time. I also have giant blue lobelia but i.e. a late summer bloomer.
3) Yes elephant ears bloom and you saw the bloom.
Answers: In my zone 6b garden, I grow larkspur, which are around as blue as you can get. An annual which self-seeds, it is more or less 3' tall, and looks immensely much like the perennial delphinium minus the difficulty in growing it.They come up surrounded by the fall and stay green adjectives winter, to bloom in impulsive summer. They can also be planted in the spring, and will bloom duplicate year.
Balloon flower, platycodon, comes in both dwarf and high-ceilinged, is an easy perennial that comes vertebrae every year and is a beautiful soft blue. Best purchased contained by growing plants.
Tritellia, a pretty blue flowering spring bulb with flowers resembling little blue stars is wonderful with adjectives the other spring flowering bulbs.
There are many other blue flowers: hardy geranium Johnson's Blue; Monkshood; Siberian Iris Ceasar's Brother; Virginia Bluebells that bloom untimely in the spring and would be lovely next to your spring flowering bulbs; veronica; Stokesia; annual Bachelor's buttons; perovskia; ground cover vinca minor; bronze beauty ajuga, and lots more.
Look at the spring VanBourgendein catalog for ideas at
http://www.dutchbulbs.com/
In my garden crocuses and other bulbs share space near vinca minor and other ground covers, blooming under azaleas, contained by hosta beds (before the hostas come up), and near are many other plants that bloom next to the bulbs, including hellebores; early violets, washed out, blue, white and speckled; ajuga; celandine poppies; columbines; bleeding heart (dicenta); Virginia bluebells; Jacob's ladder and adjectives kinds of ferns. Later, beside late daffodils and tulips, I hold daisies, early daylilies, stachys, larkspur and lot of other hasty summer bloomers.
I plant all kind of early and in arrears bulbs mixed in bed and through my woods so that I have some blooming from postponed January through May, and then the lilies and daylilies purloin over.
Yes, Elephant ears do bloom, they have a bloom remarkably much like a calla lily, or more similar to a spathyphullum or caladium.
Here;s a photo in this site:
http://www.emilycompost.com/elephant_ear...
Good luck near your garden!