My favorite woodland flower just may be the wild blue phlox. Each spring its delicate pale purple flowers composed of five fragile petals welcome me on just about every hike I take into our Loess ...

Blue phlox, particularly cultivars like 'Blue Moon,' does best in perpetually moist soil and full shade throughout hardiness zones 3 to 8.

So, for an attractive blue attention getter, try Cape Plumbago in your yard, your patio, or your deck. If you have questions, call the AgriLife office in Odessa at 498-4071 or in Midland at 686-4700.

The “sun” garden glitters by day and glows by night. Interspersed among phlox, catmint, purple Japanese irises, and red bee balm are sparkling blue and yellow glass flowers and solar-powered globes ...