Delphinium 'Pacific Giants'

💙🤍🖤 #delphinium #delphinium-pacific-giants

Wonderful! 💙💙💙

Gorgeous giants 💙💙

Dannnng.....boyyyy! That's beautiful.

That’s a really nice one. My only one, Faust, looking promising this year but a long way from flowering yet.

@kez001uk stunning 💜❤

Wonderful 💙💙💙 Miles ahead of mine!

Stunning! Beautiful colour!!

Wow what a fabulous colour....must try them next year I’ve never had any success with them....💙🤍💙

Beautiful

Love these 💙💙

💙 fabulous Kez 😀

💙✨💙 #delphinium #delphinium-pacific-giants

Those buds almost look like berries. Looking very promising 👌💙

Mine are at the same stage as yours 💙💙💙

Ooh, the team is back. #pacificgiants 💜💜

@jeatacake they’re almost as pretty as the flowers 💙 one plant I get excited to see every year 😁

@pelly won’t be long til we both have flowers 😍

@novicegardenlover and hopefully with a vengeance! Need to make up for a disappointing last season! 😂

They're great plants. As usual, mine are dilly dallying! 😀

@jeatacake I think your plants are just more relaxed and less anxious than mine 😉🤣😂

I think bone idle & lazy might be more accurate! 🤣🤣🤣

@jeatacake 😆😆😆

My delphiniums are only 6” out of the ground 😔 what do you feed yours on ?

#delphinium #delphinium-pacific-giants

I have some seedlings for this one 🌱

WHOWWWWWW ❤️🥰

Looking promising 👍 Mine are (as usual) very slow to get going.

@pelly you’ll love them Jane! There’s some beautiful colours in this mix 😍 look forward to seeing yours 😁

@Sesiltamen thanks Silvio 😊 your English seems great to me!

@jeatacake always excited to see these on the way. The only one so far - the others are on a normal schedule with yours 😉

It won’t be until next year Kerry. I meant to sow them last autumn so they could go in the ground this spring but I only remembered them a few weeks ago. They’re still tiny seedlings 🌱

@pelly 😂 I always forget the late sowings too 😜 will be worth the wait 😋

I remembered my foxgloves and one or two other bits but not these 🙄

@pelly 😜 least you’ll have them early next year 😁

Beautiful blooms. 💙 the name sounds like a sports team #pacificgiants

@novicegardenlover it really does 😂 an American football team in the making 🤣

That colour!! 💙💙💙

Great colour & the perfect blue 💙💙💙

@anges thanks Ange 😁 it’s one of the best blue flowers I’ve come across 💙

@jeatacake thanks Jeff ☺️ gotta love a blue delphinium 😋

@gjones thank you Katy 😀

I totally love the colour! 😍💙

Wow! That's almost a florescent blue 💙 One of mine has only just started to throw up its flower stalk

@natii thank you Natalie 😀

@columbiariver it’s a really vibrant blue, just love it 😍

@gjones thanks Katy 😁

@jeatacake it really is electric! And hoping to get plenty of seed 😋 yay! I’m glad to hear it’s finally doing its thing 😁

@columbiariver can never have too many 😉 I’m going to try save seed so you’ll be welcome to some 😊

Cheers Kerry. Mine's really putting on a growth spurt now, maybe after all the rain we've had?

@jeatacake as annoying as it was the rain really has made a difference to the garden. Everything seems to have shot up 😜

If soo has an effect, as during a long dry spell, growth slows right down. Maybe good timing too if we're getting a mini heatwave 👍

@jeatacake like last year when it hampered so much of the summer flowering plants 😫 dreading Saturday and it’s 30 degree heat 🥵 just hope it doesn’t do too much damage to our gardens 🤞🏻

It will only be for a few days this time they reckon & there should still be plenty of moisture in the ground from a the fairly recent rain 🤞

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The colour is perfect 💙💙💙

@gjones it’s so so bright. Electric 💙

@wagsmomthompsonbtinternetcom thanks Elaine 😁

@anges isn’t it 😍💙

Looking magnificent 💙👌

@jeatacake thanks Jeff 😁

Beautiful !!! 😍😍

💙luv the deep blue colour @kez001uk

@sherrisgarden thanks Sherri 😀

@ukjohnny thank you John 😃

@phyl1978 thanks Phyllis 😄 really is a perfect blue 💙

That's a great colour! 😍😍

That looks exciting

@ublaszko the metallic sheen is so pretty but misleading 😜

@Hayley.R would love if they had petals like this but they open bright blue. Still gorgeous but very different 💙

That would have been fab if the petals were like this on the inside 😆😆

@ublaszko I tried working out which one it is from looking back at last years. They’re actually quite dark and have a fair bit of ‘shimmer’ but nothing like the buds 😖

Jealous! 😍😍😍 Mine isn't showing a flower spike so I think I'll have to wait until next year. I love how rich the colours are 💙💙

@ublaszko thank you ☺️ did yours not flower at all this year?

Nope but I only bought it in June. I was hoping I would get some flowers towards the end of the summer but I don't think so now. I bought them as a young plant from Wilko so theoretically should be ready to flower this year.

@ublaszko I remember mine not flowering the year I got them but they flowered 3 times last year and are on their second now. I hope yours has a late flower spurt 😁

That sounds good! Thank you 👍👍

You definitely have the magic touch with delphiniums! 👌

@gjones thank you 😄💙

@jeatacake you’re too kind ☺️ I’m going to try grow these from seed next year so we will see if it’s my magic touch or @thompsonmorgan1855 plant power 🤣

They are moderately easy to grow from seed, but unlikely to flower until year 2, but worth a go 👍

@jeatacake I’m used to that with aquilegia 😂 learning to be a patient gardener 😇

#wildlifewednesday

@gjones thank you ☺️ was a complete accident but got my first flying shot 😁

Great shot!

@seclarke thanks Stacey 😁

@cyndi thank ya Cyndi 😋

Wow! What a great photo Kerry! That’s so beautiful. 😍

Brilliant capture Kerry 🐝💙

Fab photo 😍

At the right moment 👌👌👌 Superb photo Kerry!

That's lovely Kerry, perfectly timed!

Great photo Kerry 👍🐝👌💙

@Yollymac thank you 😁

Love how they turn blue as they fade 💙

Nice one 👌 Another 2nd flowering?

Very pretty 😍😍

Beautiful colours 💜

@gjones @pelly @suerichards thank you all 😁

@jeatacake thank you Jeff ☺️ another second flowering 😁 second flush is better than the first on quite a few of my plants

Noticed that with a few on here recently. No such luck here 🙄

@jeatacake always next year 😁

I'll be having a good early chop next year! 😁

@jeatacake seems to do the trick 😋

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Wow it's stunning! 😍 I love the deep colour 😊

That blue...😮💙

@natii @wagsmomthompsonbtinternetcom thank you both 😊 These are so striking and even better in their second flush!

@gjones unashamedly blue aren’t they 💙

@kez001uk fab 💙💙

@anges thank you 😋

Absolutely stunning flower . I love it 😍😍

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@eireshan @Hayley.R thank you both. Gotta love a blue flower 💙

Just love these 💙

@jeatacake thank ya 😄 they’re so bright and cheery

Very welcome. They sure are 👍💙

I have one flowering for the second time and my others all have their second spikes too 💙💙

Did you cut them back straight away after the first flowering? Never got mine to flower twice.

@gjones second bloom and is looking better than the first ☺️

@pelly they seem to come through faster on second flush. Just glad they returned for us 😁

@jeatacake I did. As soon as they lose their flowers I cut the spikes but after they’re all gone I cut everything down to soil level. Had new leaves within a week or so 😛

Cut the flower spikes at the very bottom Jeff, that should encourage new ones @jeatacake 👍👍

Thanks ladies. I shall remember that next year 👍 @kez001uk & @pelly

You're welcome Jeff @jeatacake 😊😊

Second round of flowers 😁

@gjones they’d go lovely with your blue one 💙

Very nice. You don't see many white ones 👌

@jeatacake it’s always the first to flower too 😋

Before the other coloured ones?

@jeatacake yeah the purple are usually next and the deep blue last. From 4 flowerings they’ve always kept routine 😂

That's brilliant if you're a delhinium fan, to have a succession of flowering 👍💜💙

@jeatacake are you not a delphinium fan? Were one of the first successes I had so a little attached to the returning beauties 😁

Oh I am, I love them, but mine didn't flower so well this year

@jeatacake I’m sorry to hear that 😟 they’re really special when they are at their best 😊

They are 👍

Chopped right back a few weeks ago and already a new flower spike

Cut back a week ago to just above soil level 😲

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That’s a stunning colour !

@jeatacake @Hayley.R it’s bold to say the least 😛

The colour 😍😍😍

Amazing !! 💙💙💙

No idea why the flowers are so far apart this year 😕