My garden # 7 or handsome Delphinium is a king of my garden!

Hello dear friends!

Today I want to tell you about one of my favorite flowers that grows in my garden. This flower is called Delphinium!

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Delphiniums belong to a small number of plants that have an unusually clean and pleasant sky-blue or intense bright blue or violet flowers. Sometimes there are forms with white or pink flowers. I have two Dolphinium bushes in my garden, dark blue and light blue.

These flowers are high enough and they need support. Several times their stems were broken due to heavy rain and hail. Delphinium flowers are very fluffy, so when they get wet, they become very heavy and the stem does not stand the load.

Delphiniums are used in landscape design very often. Groups of 2-3 plants look very beautiful if they are planted near veranda or gazebo or on a lawn in the center of the clearing. In mixed plantings from perennials, the delphinium is planted in the background. The delphinium combines with lilies, phloxes and roses very well.

Cut off inflorescences of the delphinium are very interesting in independent bouquets and remain fresh for 10-12 days, if the inflorescence is cut of when only half of the flowers bloom in it.

I like this flower because it is very bright and beautiful, but the most important thing is that it does not require serious care. It grows well in any land, but sometimes I feed it with fertilizers.
These flowers grow both in the wild and have selection varieties. I dream of having a few bushes of different shades, so that in my garden there would be even more bright colors!

Information from Wikipedia:

The leaves are deeply lobed with three to seven toothed, pointed lobes in a palmate shape. The main flowering stem is erect, and varies greatly in size between the species, from 10 centimetres in some alpine species, up to 2 m tall in the larger meadowland species.

In June and July (Northern Hemisphere), the plant is topped with a raceme of many flowers, varying in color from purple and blue, to red, yellow, or white. In most species each flower consists of five petal-like sepals which grow together to form a hollow pocket with a spur at the end, which gives the plant its name, usually more or less dark blue. >Within the sepals are four true petals, small, inconspicuous, and commonly colored similarly to the sepals. The eponymous long spur of the upper sepal encloses the nectar-containing spurs of the two upper petals.

The seeds are small and often shiny black. The plants flower from late spring to late summer, and are pollinated by butterflies and bumble bees. Despite the toxicity, Delphinium species are used as food plants by the larvae of some >Lepidoptera species, including the dot moth and small angle shades.

All parts of the delphiniums are poisonous!!!

Therefore, if the family has small children or people with allergic diseases, then the delphinium, alas, will have to be abandoned.

I hope you were interested! Try planting Delphinium in your garden, you will like it, I promise! :)