On May 5, 2006, at 7:31 AM, Mary Sue Ittner wrote: > My > Delphiniums have been blooming for months. I have found a number that > return planted in the ground, but some only survive in containers. The > snails, slugs, and birds decimate some of the species, but other > species > survive. So far D. nudicaule, D. luteum, D. hesperium, D. hansenii, > and D. > patens are returning in the ground. I am now getting blooms on all these species from the seeds Mary Sue sent out a year or two ago. And I'm wondering why she was so reticent to think of them as geophytes and tell us about them. They are wonderful; and so colorful. I had no idea they came in such a spectrum of vivid colors: yellow, orange, scarlet, purple, true blue. My Aquilegias are blooming at about the same time and happened to be in the same general area. There is a vague resemblance in the flowers (as well as in the plant style and shape), so it looks like I have all these flowers in all colors of the spectrum dancing about like butterflies in that part of my garden. Thanks Mary Sue. --Lee Poulsen Pasadena, California, USDA Zone 10a