Tree with blue flowers

I have seen a lot of these trees around at the moment and would like to no the name of them please.
Some are big 15 feet tall some smaller ones more like shrubs both with the same or similar blue flowers.

This is the shrub

 

This is one of the multiforms of Ceanothus, Californican Lilac. An American acquaintance tells me that there are more diffferent forms over there growing wild than we have in gardens here.

 

It's one of my favourite shrubs, I fell in love with them on holidays to Devon but for some reason they don't seem to grow very well here.

 

I too have this tree with blue flowers but dont know its name.

 

I've never really noticed how popular ceanothus actually was until it was in our college ident test and now i see it everywhere

 

I love them,heres mine this year

 

Thanks for the info.
What about the trees.
We have a few round here and I was going to get a photo to post but the weather is so bad I gave it a miss.
I'll try tomorrow if it ever stops raining.

 

Ceanothus do grow into quite tall shrubs, almost tree like, so the big ones you see flowering now are the same as the smaller shrubs.

 

I had a Ceoanthus in Bucks and they are very easily trained into trees basically by standarising them, ie, removing the lower limbs each year as they grow. It can be done with most shrubs and I have done it with many (standardising shrubs that is) over the years. :thumb:

 

This is the one in my MiLs garden which has grown into a lovely tree.

 

When I bought mine it was a shrub but I trained it into a standard. It is also evergreen.

 

OH NO! it's not is it? looks like i got that wrong on my ident test :(....

 

There's one of those in my mum's garden that I'm working in at the moment. Although it's in full bloom, it looks like it's under attack by some kind of blue/grey mold or fungus. Most of the branches are covered in it. Any tips on how to get rid of it?

 

Fmay it looks fantastic!! 02

 

Fmay - that tree is tremendous. I had never thought of training Ceanothus or any other shrub into a tree. Its an excellent idea.