BLUE POTATO FLOWERS

[Tom Wagner]

Go around any potato garden and blue will always be the least well represented of all colors. Most of the flowers described as 'blue' are, in fact, shades of mauve, violet or purple.
True blue in potatoes is extremely rare. However, a little blue will go quite a long way and planting blue flowered potatoes will add its striking nobility and dignity to any garden.

Instead of planting (Solanum rantonnetii) blue potato bush creepers for blue flowers ...why not plant real potatoes that you can have your "Cake and eat it too" sensibilities.

I named a granddaughter of SKAGIT VALLEY GOLD variety potato...BLUE MAGIC...not for the tuber color but for the near blue flowers. Of course, I crossed it with pollen from Skagit Valley Gold. One reason I made the cross of Blue Magic x Skagit Valley Gold is to get a seedling tuber with blue/purple skin and a flesh color to match the anthers. The color of the flowers of SVG is mauve.

Judge it for yourself...is it 'blue' enough?