The blue cornflower was once a national icon representing Germany. It also appears in folklore as a symbol for young men in ...

but they do resemble little clusters of purply blue grapes, and although it may be the power of suggestion, the flowers do smell like grape soda. Several bulbs are referred to as grape hyacinth ...

The flowers are smaller and round, like tiny grapes, and the leaves are thin and ... While the standard color is sky blue or a darker cobalt, she said, sometimes the flowers are a paler blue ...

SEATTLE — Seattle gardening expert Ciscoe Morris says: "Everybody loves blue flowers and right now is ... in western Washington in early April: "Grape hyacinths love to naturalize, they spread ...

This year, the flowers were past their best when I got there, but, since then, there has been blue everywhere. A ceanothus bush planted in hope in the garden has bloomed mightily; there are ...