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     DELPHINIUM                                                                      Ranunculaceae

Delphinium alpestre          sold out 

( North America ) A dwarf and very choice and attractive Delpinium from Colorado. Small, blue-tinged, cut foliage beneath short, four-inch spikes of grey-blue flowers.


dn_brunonianum Delphinium beesianum         1ltr...£3.00 

 Long-spurred blue, purple and mauve flowers with a white lip, are held in open, many-flowered panicles over roundly lobed leaves.


Delphinium depauperatum         1ltr...£3.00 

A North American species, which can, in a rich soil, reach up to four feet when in flower. Dissected, fleshy leaves beneath branched flowering stems of individually large deep blue flowers. 


dn_blue Delphinium grandiflorum 'Blue Butterfly'         9cm...£2.50  

A sprightly little plant; blue-green, dissected leaves and large, bright blue, spurred flowers on short stems. Six inches in flower and will gently seed around.


Delphinium 'Pacific Giant'         2ltr...£2.75 

An attractive but variable strain, ranging from pink and white to violet and sky-blue. Semi-double flowers on stout three to four foot stems, make an admirable display in the Summer border. 


Delphinium recurvatum          9cm...£2.50  

An attractive species; the flowering stem branches low down creating a mass of rounded, pale blue flowers over quite tough, fleshy green leaves. 


Delphinium semibarbatum         1ltr...£3.50 

( syn. D.zalil ) 


Delphinium tatsiense         sold out 

( China ) Compact-growing species, reaching, at most, eighteen inches when in flower. These vary from pale to very deep blue and are produced in many-flowered corymbs in early Summer.


Delphinium uliginosum          sold out

Pale green, trifoliate leaves and short, dense spikes of deep purple-blue, long-spurred flowers on twelve-inch stems. From moist meadows in California.


Delphinium variegatum          sold out 

Eighteen-inch stems of very large, rounded, long-spurred, deep purple-blue flowers over compact clumps of dissected foliage. 


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