Jasione laevis (Sheep's-Bit)
A cheerful herbaceous perennial that features true-blue or violet-blue spherical flowerheads that rise about one foot above the tidy, compact, densely tufted rosette of lance-shaped, gray-green leaves. Blooms in midsummer, and you can extend flowers to late summer/early fall if you are attentive to deadheading, though you may enjoy cutting the blooming stalks to bring inside for cut-flower arrangements!
With its tidy foliage, it's super at the front of a border, along a walkway, or in a rock garden. The many tiny flowers that make up the flowerhead offer lots of goodies to attract bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and support beneficial insects to keep your garden healthy.
Best in full sun, tolerates most soils, though does best with drainage and is drought-tolerant once established.
A cheerful herbaceous perennial that features true-blue or violet-blue spherical flowerheads that rise about one foot above the tidy, compact, densely tufted rosette of lance-shaped, gray-green leaves. Blooms in midsummer, and you can extend flowers to late summer/early fall if you are attentive to deadheading, though you may enjoy cutting the blooming stalks to bring inside for cut-flower arrangements!
With its tidy foliage, it's super at the front of a border, along a walkway, or in a rock garden. The many tiny flowers that make up the flowerhead offer lots of goodies to attract bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and support beneficial insects to keep your garden healthy.
Best in full sun, tolerates most soils, though does best with drainage and is drought-tolerant once established.
A cheerful herbaceous perennial that features true-blue or violet-blue spherical flowerheads that rise about one foot above the tidy, compact, densely tufted rosette of lance-shaped, gray-green leaves. Blooms in midsummer, and you can extend flowers to late summer/early fall if you are attentive to deadheading, though you may enjoy cutting the blooming stalks to bring inside for cut-flower arrangements!
With its tidy foliage, it's super at the front of a border, along a walkway, or in a rock garden. The many tiny flowers that make up the flowerhead offer lots of goodies to attract bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and support beneficial insects to keep your garden healthy.
Best in full sun, tolerates most soils, though does best with drainage and is drought-tolerant once established.