I will be real interested to see how they deal with our hummidity/heat issue and lack of cool nights. Many of the western penstemons burn up ion me. I have more success with them in part sun. But so far I have grown P superbus and P baccharifoliuos, P triflorus, P. cobaea. .......I have killed many others.P. pinfoliuos, Pseoudospectabilis, P. palmerii. I am not trying to be a kill joy. I am interested in successs or failure. What soil are you planting them in?

OH my favorite color! I would also love to know how it does. Would like to see pics of your big Cobalt blue garden too :-)

Gorgeous blue. I couldn't get any penstemon to last, not even the TX one. I tried a few

Are you going to cold stratify the seeds?

Yes, I plan to try the cold stratify for perhaps better germination success on these, although the packet of seed from a Canadian vendor says they can be sown in soil-less mix once weather is warm out. I don't know if they will go for me, but wanted to try. You all don't sound encouraging, but if I lose them all, I'm out 1 packet of seed only. :) I just love the color. Plan to plant a few out front in a defined bed and in my Blue garden out back in part sunny areas, dappled by tree overhang.

@abarbie4me, the bottom pic is a pot rack I don't need indoors in this current house, so I moved it outdoors when we moved in here 2 years ago and put the blue glass items you see. It's prettiest when the sun hits it, naturally. Lobelia perched on top. Plan to fill this bed with Vinca Minor when it arrives. Next is my blue birdbath. I also have some inverted blue bottles on stakes (not really a bottle tree, but I have no pic of them), and the top photo are my NZ Flax Lilies with artificial "blooms". Those 5 variegated Liriope in the second photo behind the rose bush got planted in a circle this afternoon and I plan to plant the dark green Liriope in the middle of that circle tomorrow. I got tired and had to quit. :)

This is very much a garden in progress. Have a bunch of stuff on order for this garden: Borealis Honeyberry, East Friesland Sage, 3 American Beautyberry, 2 Longwood Blue Mist shrubs for a sunny sloped spot on the East face and a Lady Banks thornless rose to train up the puny tree right of the birdbath. Planning on setting out blue Vinca Minor in one area by the hose bib in a partly

shady west side that is bordered by cement pathway and driveway, so it shouldn't get out of control. Plan to put a yellow Forsythia in there somewhere where it will get some sone part of the day. Am looking for one of the bluer Texas Purple Sage "Lynn's Legacy Cenizo" or "Candidum" if I can find them (no Sages available yet here). I'm trying to adopt the British approach and fill the space tightly with clumps of color. But I've not been in this house long and want to take my time filling those spaces up. ;) Then there's my pot of glass balls with Dusty Miller centered and finally my blue Marigold pot. I plan to stay with pink, purple blue and white flowering plants back here, but there's not much color just yet. I'm working on it at a snail's pace. :)

Hardy plumbago aka Leadwort is a nice shade groundcover that blooms spring and fall in small cobalt blue flowers.Lovely red foliage in the fall too.

Your garden shots showing the collection of blue bottles and pots are wonderful. Thank you for posting!

I agree with Pam in that the cobalt blue flowers of Leadwort aka Dwarf plumbago would fit right in. There are some photos to be seen by scrolling down on THIS LINK.

Oh, I LOVE the dwarf plumbago, Rosalee. That's a new one to me and the blooms are do intensely blue! Vinca Minor leans toward a purplish blue and the DP is a much truer cobalt blue. Like that it blooms much of the year, too. I've never seen it in the nurseries around here. Do you think I'd have to order it from somewhere? I'll have to start checking around. Would love to put some at the shaded end of the garden where the Flax Lilies are. :)

It's readily available in nurseries around here, usually in 4/5 in. pots so it may be that you just never noticed it.

What's the best way to get our hard water mineral white discoloration off my brick? A good vinegar/water scrub down? I get it all around my house from our sprinkling spray heads overspraying the brick in places.

I don't think you can do anything about it. Vinegar mix might work but will readily return if continued overspray. I live with it, sigh.