On Nov 18, 2004, at 6:20 PM, Mary Sue Ittner wrote: > I nominated Delphinium for purple favorites and there are a couple of > native ones, D. decorum and D. paryii that are almost blue or part > blue that I really like. Also there is one that is really a gorgeous > color of blue that I received from NARGS seed as D. menziesii, which > it is not. I don't know what it really is, but I decided to add it > again as a sp. to the wiki, along with a picture of the roots, tuber? > when dormant. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… This is the one I got at a local nursery a few years ago! I didn't know it was geophytic. But it was so true blue I had to get it. I thought it was some commercial hybrid of some sort. Mine was short and became covered in these flowers--there was no flower "spike". --Lee Poulsen Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10