Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Caryopteris Dark Knight is a compact mounding shrub growing 3-4’ tall and wide. It has fragrant, deep blue-purple flowers backed by silver-gray foliage.

Both magnificent choices for autumn colour. The deep blue flowers are late to come out and we need them. Bees love them. Make sure they are well mulched after hard frost. And when they start ...

If you like the color purple, look no further than the sturdy deciduous perennial Caryopteris. Native to the mountain slopes of eastern Asia, but equally at home in our Mediterranean climate ...

No need to fertilize or spray anything on them. Caryopteris (also known as bluebeard and blue mist shrub) are sun-loving and drought-tolerant plants once established, so the site you've picked ...

the blue mist shrub, is full sun and good drainage ... Though a shrub by definition because of its woody stems, Caryopteris dies back considerably in winter and looks pretty ratty by February.

There are just six species in the genus named Caryopteris, and one is the small shrub many of us enjoy in our gardens. It has frothy, rounded blue flower clusters in midsummer. Its common names ...