Caryopteris divaricata Blue Butterflies Colored Foliage For a truly tropical look

For a truly tropical look in a temperate garden

This Hosta 'Tokudama' hybrid makes a stunning clump of blue-green cupped foliage

or keep your fern depressed

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From late summer

Caryopteris divaricata Blue Butterflies Colored Foliage For a truly tropical lookWe have been taken with the floriferous herbaceous perennial, Caryopteris divaricata 'Blue Butterflies' in our trials! This vigorous 6' tall, deer resistant, summer flowering perennial, selected by Japan's Shinri Wakaiki, is topped from August through October with hundreds of small blue flowers that resemble trichostema (blue curls). Caryopteris 'Blue Butterflies' is a great summer border plant, but well drained soils are particularly important for