This week it’s:
IF you want to add height to a perennial or mixed border, then look no further than the delphinium. It soars above other flowers, each of its 6ft (2m)-tall spires coated in up to 100 frilly blooms. For structure and old-world English charm, you can do no better. And I haven’t even mentioned the colour blue!
From gentian and indigo-blue, to royal, sky, ultramarine and navy, no other flower group provides us with such a diversity of this one primary colour. Today, though, there are pinks, purples, whites, creams and shades of red, too. Delphiniums are doing their thing right now, so let’s look at some facts
Delphiniums are in the large buttercup family. Their cousins include clematis, aconites, hellebores, anemones and thalictrum.…
