Dear All, Since blue is one of my favorite colors I've really enjoyed reading about everyone's favorites. A couple of them were my favorite purple flowers, but I expected a little overlap. I agree with Lee that there are some borderline ones and that many that are mentioned as blue don't really seem blue to me. Like many others I have been trying to grow Tecophilaea cyanocrocus and it has been very slow to bloom for me from seed and even from corms changing hemispheres. Last year I did see one bloom, but it didn't last very long so I was a bit disappointed. For two years I've had blooms from Tecophilaea cyanocrocus var. leichtlinii, the one that is blue and white and it bloomed longer so is a bit higher in my esteem. I nominated Delphinium for purple favorites and there are a couple of native ones, D. decorum and D. paryii that are almost blue or part blue that I really like. Also there is one that is really a gorgeous color of blue that I received from NARGS seed as D. menziesii, which it is not. I don't know what it really is, but I decided to add it again as a sp. to the wiki, along with a picture of the roots, tuber? when dormant. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… I keep struggling to grow some of the Aristea from seed that are supposed to be blue. A. bakeri has survived our dry summer just fine in the ground so it looks like a keeper and I thought the flowers a nice color of blue when it bloomed this spring. Like Sheila I adore Leucocoryne. Last year Lee Poulsen translated a key for us we found on the Internet. Mine were just about through blooming at the time, but I think the blue one I really like which is not the one I find the easiest to grow is L. coquimbensis. It is blue around the edges with a white center. I believe I got it as L. ixioides. The L. coquimbensis that Bill Dijk gave some of us turned out to be L. vittata (Tepals with undulating/wavy and erose edges, violet-purple color, with an obvious/blatant violet central line.) It made my favorite purple list. I don't think anyone has mention Pasithea caerulea which is a very nice blue and there are a couple of Orthosanthus which are nice too. Bellevalia dubia has nice blue buds when it first starts to bloom and then becomes brown. Like Liz I like Salvia patens even though I have to grow it in a container as my soil is too dry in summer for it to do well. (I've tried.) Finally I don't grow these, but we admired the Iris siberica we saw in the U.K. in May. I've added two pictures to the wiki of ones we saw by name at Wisley. My books say those are often hybrids. There was one called Navy Blue which was a really pretty color. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Mary Sue Mary Sue Ittner California's North Coast Wet mild winters with occasional frost Dry mild summers