There's something rather special about sky-blue flowers, and a towering delphinium brings a concentrated hit of this most elevating colour up to eye level. Caught against a blue sky in summer or autumn, they're breathtaking.
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| Summer Skies - Sky Blue seedling |
Just look at that blue! I was amazed at how truly sky-blue this summer
skies seedling is. No Photoshopping the colours here! That's the colour of the sky and
the colour of the flowers; an almost perfect match in tone and intensity. for the week this was in flower I steered all visitors to my garden to these flowers, with a whispered "just look at those flowers against the sky." After the flower spike formed Summer Skies picked
it up mildew on the leaves, but cut back to the base after most of the flower spikes were spent, the trio of
summer skies planted together in an ericaceous pot (for the lilies, not
the delphs) have formed flowers almost ready to open this week (sept
14th). Just in time to compare themselves to clear autumn skies.
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| Pandora |
The darker blue of Pandora if enhanced by a beautiful eye: black striped with blue. A nice pyramid shape too.
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| Blue Lagoon |
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| Summer Skies |
Blue Lagoon: Sky blue with hints of mauve and below, a similar colouring from a summer skies seedling. Note the pinked petal tips on the summer skies vs smooth points of Blue Lagoon.
This Summer skies was chunkier and more well filled than Lagoons first flowering.
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