Butterfly Blue, a cultivar of shorter Scabiosa columbaria, was a very long time coming to market. In the 1960s Farplants grower David Tristram found it in an Irish garden, where it seemed to be in ...

SPECIES: Scabiosa columbaria Butterfly Blue, member of Dipsacaceae family native to Europe, Asia and Africa. Forty years ago grower David Tristram admired this plant in a garden in Ireland.

Laura Janney, CEO of The Inspired Garden Masterclass, loves to work with scabiosa, moreso the ‘Butterfly Blue’ variety than ‘Pink Mist’. ‘It gives you that dreamy cottage meadowy soft ...