Thanks to fashionable moms everywhere, in the 21st century blue isn’t just for boys. Not that boys have a new favorite color. But it’s now okay for girls to like blue, too. For anyone of either gender who has a thing for this band of the color spectrum, I’m da bomb. Billowing clouds of sky blue flowers, and Lobelia flowers at that. Wait a minute. Aren’t Lobelias supposed to croak in the heat? It so happens that another thing that’s gotten with the program in our new millennium is horticulture. Proven Winners wanted a heat tolerant Lobelia that was a flower making maniac. Poof! And here I am.

A compact, 8 - 10 inch tall annual (except in zones 9-11) for full sun to part shade, an abundance of blooms that never need deadheading and a mounding, trailing habit that’s perfect for landscapes and all types of containers. Ain’t progress wonderful?