Favorite Blue Flower Bulbs--TOW

Lee Poulsen wpoulsen@pacbell.net
Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:28:32 PST
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://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

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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