John Ingram wrote, >Jane, > >You've mentioned several times about your bulb frame. Can you give a >little more description? To me a "frame" is a small structure and I >couldn't imagine a Delphinium blooming in it. > >I think of a cold frame type structure made from 2 x 12 or 1 x 12 with old >window panes on top that are raised durung warm weather. I think this >would work for a lot of your smaller bulbs, narcissus, romuleas, crocus, >non hardy misc. things and such but not the taller things you have tlaked >about. My bulb frames are rather large, about 5 feet high at the ridgepole of the newer ones and about 3 feet high in the older ones, and are described and pictured in the recent Timber Press book "Rock Garden Design and Construction. However, Delphinium luteum (native to your adopted state of California, John) is only about 20 inches tall in flower. There are many small Delphinium species -- they're not just the familiar massive border perennials. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA