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Delphinium identification please
« on: July 30, 2009, 02:30:34 PM »
Anyone grow or know this pretty little delphinium please ... about eight inches tall at present and flowering for the first time?
Many thanks in anticipation.
I must add that the first image is much closer to the actual colour of the flower than the second more 'lurid' shot.

DELPHINIUM SP.?
« Last Edit: July 30, 2009, 02:32:55 PM by ranunculus »
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Cliff Booker
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Re: Delphinium identification please
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2009, 05:37:40 PM »
Have you a pic of the leaves? The flower looks like what I have grown before as D.vestitum.
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Re: Delphinium identification please
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2009, 07:40:14 PM »
The bit about the black 'bits' fits:
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Re: Delphinium identification please
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2009, 01:29:09 AM »
Glorious colour combination, Cliff.  Love the black bee on that beautiful purple. :o
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Re: Delphinium identification please
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2009, 05:52:04 PM »
Many thanks Simon and Giles - I would love to post an image of the foliage but there is so little of it that it really wouldn't help.  I am quite prepared to go with your suggestion Simon and thank you for the speedy identification ... no idea where the seed came from - my label states Ranunculus sp.!!! Sown 2006.   :D
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Re: Delphinium identification please
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2009, 07:24:25 PM »
No problem. If it is D.vestitum,it is one I grew a long time ago and I am sad to have lost.
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Re: Delphinium identification please
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2009, 11:35:41 PM »
The foliage on D. vestitum is quite unusual for a delphinium - almost round, very furry.  Here are a couple of photos, if it is helpful to compare.
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Re: Delphinium identification please
« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2009, 08:20:59 AM »
Many thanks Lori ... I will investigate and report back, though, as I have mentioned, there is precious little foliage to be seen at the moment.
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