How to Get Blue Phlox

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Blue flower colors can be hard to find to add to cut flower bouquets. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Blue flower colors can be hard to find to add to cut flower bouquets. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

How to Get Blue Phlox

It can be challenging to find blue flowers for home decor bouquets. When I think of blue flowers, bluebells from Texas come to mind but they don’t grow well in Missouri. Virginia bluebells do bloom here in spring but they disappear by June.

By happenstance I discovered that with a little patience I can have blue phlox for flower arrangements.

These lovely blue-toned flowers are actually native Missouri pink phlox, the original flower species that is the basis of all hybrid phlox varieties.

The blue cut flowers come from native Missouri pink phlox. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

The blue cut flowers come from native Missouri pink phlox. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

If you leave the pink phlox inside in a flower vase with fresh water every day or so, the pink will fade to a blue, giving you the option to add a blue-toned flower to your cut flower arrangement.

This is such an easy way to get a hard to find blue flower for home decor!

Charlotte