Tiers of intense deep blue flowers hang from the upright stems of Anchusa 'Dropmore' in spring and summer. Hot, dryish spots with good winter drainage.

Anchusa 'Loddon Royalist' is a borage relative with royal blue flowers for hot sunny gardens.

Anemone blanda 'Blue Star' is a Grecian windflower with bright blue flowers.

Anemone coronaria De Caen 'Blue Poppy' has large blue flowers up to four inches across with black centres in mid to late spring.

Anemone coronaria 'Full Star Blue' is a gorgeous poppy anemone with true blue, fully double flowers.

Anemone nemorosa 'Allenii' is a pale lavender-blue form of this charming woodland groundcover.

Anemone nemorosa 'Bowles's Purple' is a lavender-blue form of this charming woodland groundcover.

Anemone nemorosa 'Robinsoniana' has glowing pale lavender-blue flowers.

Anemone nemorosa 'Royal Blue' has some of the bluest flowers of the wood anemones.

Aquilegia coerulea 'Rocky Mountain Blue' produces large, showy mid blue and white flowers on stems.

Houseplant or outdoor plant. You choose in coastal BC. For the rest of Canada you have one choice for Aspidistra: house plant! But what an easy houseplant it is.

Aster cordifolius 'Avondale' is an arching aster for shade that will produce clouds of lavender-blue flowers that billow throughout your ferns and hostas.

'Raydon's Favourite' forms lush mounds of fragrant foliage smothered with hundreds of gorgeous aster flowers in fall.

Babiana stricta 'Kew Hybrids' commonly known as Baboon flowers are lightly fragrant, funnel-shaped flowers of white, lavender, pink, blue and purple.

Baptisia australis is a mid-border anchor with deep blue lupine-like flower spikes and dark green foliage.

Baptisia 'Lunar Eclipse' is an exciting cultivar with shrub sized plants and lupine-like flowers that age from cream to lavender-blue.

'Soryu' is a an easy-to-grow lavender-blue flowered hardy Bletilla orchid.

A great stalwart for the shade garden with heart-shaped leaves and forget-me-not-like flowers.

Brunnera macrophylla Alchemy Silver is a vigorous, floriferous selection with impressive, flashy silver leaves that have green veins.

A huge Brunnera like 'Jack Frost' on steroids. 'Alexander's Great' has amazing size and presence in the shade garden.

Brunnera 'Alexandria' is the all-silver version of the giant 'Alexander's Great' with heart-shaped silver leaves and blue flowers.

Brunnera macrophylla 'Diane's Gold' has chartreuse to gold foliage that holds its colour all summer.

Brunnera macrophylla 'Emerald Mist' has subtle silver markings on heart-shaped leaves with blue flowers.

Brunnera 'Green Gold' has gold-green foliage and forget-me-not-like blue flowers that light up the shade.

Brunnera 'Hadspen Cream' has creamy white variegated foliage that shows off the blue flowers to perfection.