[pbs] Favorite Blue Flower Bulbs--TOW
Lee Poulsen
wpoulsen at pacbell.net
Fri Nov 19 13:28:32 EST 2004
On Nov 18, 2004, at 6:20 PM, Mary Sue Ittner wrote:
> I nominated Delphinium for purple favorites and there are a couple of
> native ones, D. decorum and D. paryii that are almost blue or part
> blue that I really like. Also there is one that is really a gorgeous
> color of blue that I received from NARGS seed as D. menziesii, which
> it is not. I don't know what it really is, but I decided to add it
> again as a sp. to the wiki, along with a picture of the roots, tuber?
> when dormant. http://www.ibiblio.org/pbs/pbswiki/index.php/Delphinium
This is the one I got at a local nursery a few years ago! I didn't know
it was geophytic. But it was so true blue I had to get it. I thought it
was some commercial hybrid of some sort. Mine was short and became
covered in these flowers--there was no flower "spike".
--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10
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