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One thing about us:Southern Livingeditors love plants.
With that in mind, we asked our editors what plants they love.
There are so few blue flowers in the garden, and these are showy.

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My grandmother grewblue hydrangeas, and they always remind me of my grandmother, Mama Mae.
Steve Bender, recommends chaste tree, one of his top all-time trees.
He says, Chaste treeis one of my favorites.

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One of the reasons why is because it’s one of the trees that has blue flower spikes.
Blue is a very rare color actually in the plant kingdom.

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