Nice!

Wow! So pretty!

It was houzz member morpheuspa that was the AGERATUM aficionado.

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5958227/simple-annual-but-nice-to-have#26145572

very nice.. thx for the pix...

i could never really bring myself to call that color blue ... regardless.. whatever it is.. it is unique ...

ken

Beautiful! Rouge I just thought of you yesterday or Saturday as I was browsing an online catalog of a native nursery. There was a perennial that looked a lot like blue ageratum and I thought, hmm, I wonder if rouge knows about this.....? Lol

:)

Dee

I need more information Dee re this Ageratum like perennial!

i could never really bring myself to call that color blue

Hey @ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5, does this up close pic look more blue like?

I've always called that electric blue.

The look-alike plant sounds like mistflower:

https://garden.org/plants/view/75969/Blue-Mistflower-Conoclinium-coelestinum/

It's pretty but creeps by stolons, doesn't play well with others. Best left in the ditch, in more wild areas, unless one wants to devote a controlled area (surrounded by mowed area or hard border) to just that plant.

Yes, Tiffany, you're spot on! I just looked up the nursery again and the description does say it spreads, so use with caution.

https://www.prairiemoon.com/eupatorium-coelestinum-mistflower-prairie-moon-nursery.html

And again upon further reading, I see it's called Hardy Ageratum! At least I know I wasn't too far off, thinking it looked like ageratum lol. But yeah, probably not a good choice for the average home garden!

:)

Dee

HAHA I call that "electric blue" too!

Hardy ageratum (reclassified to Conoclinium coelestinum) is a valuable nectar-rich native here in parts of the midwest and eastward, and is beautiful. It doesn't start blooming until later in the season here in MI, though, so isn't on par with blooming power of season-long annual ageratum. I have one way out in the back of the pasture somewhere, I hope it spreads but may have trouble duking it out with the too-tall grass back there...

Agree, it's very pretty! I had no idea it was so hardy. It didn't "meet" it until moving to AL. I usually see it here in roadside ditches when the goldenrod is blooming. The colors go so well together. This pic shows both.

https://garden.org/plants/photo/319257/

Pretty! Nice photo, Tiffany!

:)

Dee

Thank you very much!

Now with Little Goldstar Rudbeckia in full bloom:

I see it's called Hardy Ageratum!

Amazing detective work Dee!

You can call it any nickname you prefer or remember, but often plants share nicknames, and it can be unclear what plant is being discussed. Like if one says daisy or lily. Too many of them to have a discussion without establishing which daisy or which lily is being discussed. The botanical name (Conoclinium coelestinum, in the case of the plant under discussion in this thread,) indicates a specific plant.

Gorgeous photos rough! Thanks for sharing this beautiful combination!

debra

"...Amazing detective work Dee!..."

Umm, are you making fun of me lol? Was I being too "duh" with that comment? I'm not sure how to read that hahaha! (Comes from growing up with brothers, I guess...)

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Dee

Never Dee! I for sure was being complimentary... I learned something from your post. Thank you.

So beautiful! I have that rudbeckia and it's a wonderful variety as it blooms for a very long time.

@bellarosa, I so love LGStar. IMO it is way superior to 'regular' Goldsturm.

Rouge21, I definitely agree - LGStar is WAY better than the regular goldstrum, which I have growing in other parts of the garden. It has finished blooming, but LGStar is still blooming despite our cooler temps.