Hedges Blue Blossoms at www.japanese-home-gardens.com

Sao Miguel calls itself "The Green Island" in tourist folders but its fabulous hydrangea highways, thick hedges blue blossoms with blue blossoms lining the roads on both sides mile after mile, make it a blue-green island for two or three months from about July 1. I have never seen anything in my travels at all like these island roads. They resemble green tunnels through luxuriant shade trees arching overhead, with a blue and white "dado" on either side.

To top it off, in mid-August the flowers appear. They look like small artichokes (a very close relation) and are obviously thistles of a sort with many individual purplish blue florets. The spines around the blossoms are sharp. Blossoms continue to the end of October and plants withstand frost at least to - 28°F.

hedges blue blossoms make excellent garden barriers where walls and fences are undesirable. They provide a natural backdrop to other plants, and thorny hedges blue blossoms are effective obstacles against domestic and farm animals. hedges blue blossoms can be either formal and close-clipped or informal and irregular in outline.