Promised Caryopteris

This is a Caryopteris. I shot it to accompany a first-person essay about the fact that this is the only true-blue flower, not purple-blue or blue-purple. All of the photos I found on photo agency sites were too purple so I biked out to the Arnold Arboretum in JP to find this one. It was the bluest one I could find. What can you do?

See it the one that published with the article here: http://features.csmonitor.com/gardening/2008/09/30/amid-fall-hues-a-splash-of-blue/

And a few of my other picks that didn't run:








I thought the bee was kinda cool, but I guess it distracted from the story.

All taken on a sunny fall day at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in Jamaica Plain, Mass.