 It occurred to me today that it was rather odd that my abundantly blooming delphiniums seem to be doing an excellent job staying upright. Normally by this point, the blooms are so heavy, a little rain will send them bending over in loops.Upon closer examination I noticed the secret to their upright success: two stems seem to have grown up fused together as one in a very thick stem right from the ground (conjoined delphiniums) and then split apart to form two bloom heads. It's an extremely efficient system. Wish I could get them all to do this. |
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Wow. Neat. I've never seen that before.
I wish I could get mine to do that, too! I am using twine and a bamboo stick.
Wonder if that plant will do that next year?
Forgot to say I love that color, I have three different lighter blues. That is what I wanted.
Don in Iowa had an Oriental lily do much the same thing! Weird!
I will have to watch if this happens again next year: that would be the Ultimate in Weirdness.
Hmm... I know that having foliage too close promotes disease, but I wonder if you could train two stems together from the time they are short, then let them grow apart when they get closer to bloom height? Sort of like using each other to "stake" them?
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