delphinium Blue

LATIN NAME: Delphinium

COMMON NAME: Delphinium

The delphinium is a handsome, upright, tall, leafy, perennial herb of the cool, open places, and its fine, deeply lobed, palmate leaves and its fine, long, upright spikes of the many showy, blue, purple, violet or white, spurred flowers have made it a treasured and magnificent plant of the border. It grows as an upright, tall, leafy, perennial herb, reaching up to two metres or more, with the upright, leafy stems bearing the alternate, deeply lobed, palmate leaves and, through the summer, the fine, long, upright spikes of the many showy, blue, purple, violet or white, spurred flowers, followed by the small, dry, many-seeded follicles. It is a species of the flowering herb in the buttercup family, and it is native to the cool, open places of the northern hemisphere, while it is treasured for its fine, showy, upright spikes of the blue flowers, and it is known as the delphinium.

In the buttercup family it is the tall, blue-spiked delphinium of the summer border, a plant whose upright towers of spurred blossom have been the pride of the garden for the ages.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The delphinium carries some compounds of the buttercup family, and the chemistry of the plant has been examined with the greatest care by the researchers across the world. The botanists have mapped its place in the buttercup family and the cool, open-place flora, and the horticulturists have bred and grown the tall, blue-spiked form as a treasured plant of the border and the cutting garden. The plant is best appreciated as a subject of study rather than a casual remedy, and the growers of the border perennials keep it in the front rank.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the summer border, the delphinium is the tall, blue tower of the garden. Its spurred flowers feed the bees, and the upright, leafy stems give the border a bold, vertical line. It has been treasured across the world as one of the great border flowers and a favourite of the cutting garden, and it grows well in the rich, moist, well-drained ground of the sunny, sheltered spot. Tall, blue-spiked and magnificent.

Mix the fine seeds with a little moist sand and give them a cold, damp rest in the fridge for a few weeks, then sprinkle them over the surface of pots of gritty, free-draining soil and just press them in without covering them, keep the pots in a bright, open spot and water them gently, and they’ll be up before long.