Tree with blue flowers

Fmay ... thats it.
Thats what i have been seeing.
Really lovely.
I'm going to get one.
When the best time to plant them ?

 

Yes, Fmay, that is a lovely Blue, I am also training mine into a tree, not in full bloom as yours is yet but getting there.

 

Lyn, if you can buy one now it will be in a container, plant anytime but not if it's hot, wait for a dull rainy day and keep the rootball complete.

 

Just seen this thread, this was mine last week, but unfortunately the recent bad weather has removed all the lovely blue flowers.

As LOL said, just keep pruning the lower limbs back and it becomes a tree! This one is nearly 15 years old.

 

I remember being amazed the first time I saw one of these trees in Bristol - I never knew you could get such a BRIGHT blue blossom in so much profuseness.

I agree - the standard tree photos make it look absolutely superb.

They like full sun - mine doesn't get enough and really needs re-siting. This will probably be the death of it though - I guess they wouldn't like being moved once they have become established...?

 

Beautiful shrubs/trees everyone, I won't show you mine now as it is scraggly, needs a good hair trim!

Slinky - that is a giant shrub!

fmay - your MiL's is lovely, and what a lovely background too!

DAG - yours is amazing! I've never seen one like that before.

How do you all get them to be so full? Do you feed them anything special? Mine just sits against its sunny south wall and gets water.

 

Hi Cookie Monster, this smaller bush type that I also have on the other side of the garden was ripped right out of the ground partly by the builder and then by a storm about 18 months ago, but I just stuck it back in again and as you can see it has come to no harm so I think you can move them if you can take most of the root with it?

Kedi, I don't feed them at all only prune them about twice a year, and some years take a tree saw to it when it gets out of hand as the tree on the other side tries to grow over the fence and into next door!

 

Beautiful Dag, I think they are just stunning. How old is yours, Im just trying to get some idea how long I will have to wait for mine to get to that standard. 02

 

Hello takemore02withit, the first one is nearly 15 years old, and the second is nearly 10 years old, I think.

But they look quite good after 4 or 5 years from memory. Only thing is that the lovely blue flowers drop off after a few weeks with the first downpour or strong winds, which happened with the recent weather. But there again it is evergreen of course!

 

Mine is in for a radical cut-back as soon as the flowering period is over. It seems like I can't do anything wrong by chopping off the straggly pieces.