Beginner Gardening: bicolor delphinium question, 1 by rubia16

rubia16 wrote:
I have an uncle who lives in Richmond and I remember the heat and the humidity. You had to almost swim through the air and it was hard to breathe.

Here we are extreme the other way-- those delipiniums survived a -40 winter this year (a couple weeks of that!) and you can't even dig the earth until May (if you're lucky.) We are always behind everybody else plant-wise. But we are ahead of everybody else on the first freeze (usually mid to late Sept.) Some of my plants are confused and think it is fall already-- ths year has been strange.

I looked at the New Zealand seed site! That are fantastic! And I spent a lot of time looking at all the pictures. They have many double flowers and brilliant blues and purples. I love the ones called "pagan purple." Gorgeous.

I have another kind of delphinium that is more bushy (as opposed to a spire) that also had the two-blue color. However, on this one, the lighter blue almost forms a spot.