What's your best guess ==> Latin Names ?

I'm just about completed with my seed spread sheet.... down to the last 2 with very generic names, that i'm struggling with;

1) Delphinium Royal Blue
2) Super Blue Aster

any ideas what their Latin Names may be?
or i will just have to wing it ....

Thanks ....

Terese

I bet the delphinium is a Consolida... lots of them are "imperial" this, or "regal" that... Consolida regalis and C. ambigua are odds on favorites. Unless it's a real Delphinium you're talking about. Have you seen the plant bloom?

No -- I received the seeds in a swap. that Delph. Royal Blue was all that was written on the package.
same with the Aster.

I'll search it using the Consolida and see what pops up.

OH - but hopefully, if it blooms this year, i'll take pics and be able to research it better.

Thanks,

I did find 1 Dutch site that had it listed as the "Delphinium 'Royal Blue'".

>>Unless it's a real Delphinium you're talking about.

what is the difference between the real Delphinium and not real ?

obviously, this is a new plant for me.

TIA,

Terese

Me too, so I don't really know. I kind of went through this last year. But there's a genus called Delphinium that is also a synonym for some plants called Consolida. Some get really tall, like eight feet.

I saw the Dutch site too, and they say "synoniem van: Consolida...) Hopefully someone can help sort this out. Help!!!

http://www.plantago.nl/plantindex/plants/d/Delphinium/Delphinium.htm

Delphinium elatum 'Pacific Giant' cultivars at Longwood last year:

Hopefully -- the seeds I have will bloom first season ... then i'll have more info in my search.
I'm hoping the "Blue" is blue like in some of those images.... just stunning.

Thanks for your assistance Mike.
always appreciated

Gorgeous photo!!

Terese

Hey, Terese!

Your Super Blue Aster is probably Callistephus chinensis -- the annual Aster. If it is, and it's just a guess, but if it is, you are in for a treat. They are one of the most perfect cut flowers and the blooms last long on theplant, too. Plants are usually about 24" tall. Big flowers, and they seem very happy.

Annual Asters get a disease called the Aster Yellows -- the flowers become deformed from a soil born disease, so you just rotate them around your garden and try not to grow them in the same spot. (Annual Rudbeckias can get the same disease...it is the only time I've ever seen it in person, the brown/black center turns green with mold and the green mold-looking stuff expands out over the petals.

Of course it could also be a cool perennial Aster such as Aster amellus or even Symphyotrichum. Now you see why Latin names are so nice to have on the seed packs.

Suzy

thanks Suzy.

it's sorta ironic.... I've always wanted "perennial" gardens ... less work and all that... but now, when i have to wait for that 'second year' thing for the blooms... i'm not minding annuals at all.

i guess before, when i was always purchasing the plants, i was more concerned with the cost of all those annuals... now that i'm just dealing with seeds... the expense isn't there.

Thanks for all you did!! amazing job to tackle.

and thanks for the info on these seeds

Terese