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Its distinctive, hooded flowers resemble a turtle's head, making it both a whimsical and visually ostentatious plant. In zones 5 though 9, the clumpy turtlehead blooms from July until September.

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Outstanding varieties include Eryngium zabelii ‘Big Blue’ (medium height, herbaceous, with large, metallic-blue flowers and silver foliage); Eryngium x oliverianum (tall, herbaceous, silver ...

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To produce blue flowers they need to be grown in acid soil between pH 5.5-4.5. Adding aluminum sulfate to the soil also encourages blue flowers. In less acidic soils, the blooms may be white or pink.

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Roses are red, violets are blue. Except they’re not. They’re, er, violet. True blue flowers are exceedingly rare, and not for lack of effort. Plant breeders have repeatedly tried to nudge ...

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That makes genetically engineering a blue flower tricky, since you can't just make a straightforward tweak and expect a garden full of unnatural hues.