Park Seed Delphina Light Blue White Bee Friendly Double Bloom Delphinium Seeds - Pack of 25 for Garden Planting, Pollinator Attraction & Cut Flower Arrangements

It's going to be another beautiful spring in your garden! We are delighted to celebrate 150 years of gardening friendship with you! "Your success and pleasure are more to Park than your money." The motto of our founder, George W. Park, has been the inspiration for Park Seed Company ever since its 1868 founding at the kitchen table of a 15-year-old boy who hoped to sell seeds from his own garden for a little pocket money. Mr. Park considered gardening a spiritual delight as well as a useful and pleasant activity. In early catalogs, he encouraged gardeners to form clubs and swap seeds, even printing nature poetry they had written. His catalogs united gardeners in remote rural areas, and by 1918, Park Seed Company had 180,000 customers. Today our gardeners number in the millions, yet we still adhere to Mr. Park's original motto. We may be connecting online through social media rather than handwritten letters, but the spirit and the result is the same: bringing the joys of gardening to as many people as possible.

At last, a Delphinium that's petite enough to put in containers yet strong and very heavy-blooming, with double blooms that may repeat! And the best part? This is an open-pollinated seed variety! We throw around the term "breeding breakthrough" sometimes, but it's really true in the case of Delphina!

Already a sensation in Europe, where it swept away a Fleuroselect Novelty Award, Delphina is just 20 inches high and 16 inches wide, yet branches nicely with no pinching or other help from you, and sets big double blooms of soft powder-blue with a bold white bee (central cluster of petals).

It blooms heavily in late spring and early summer, and then sometimes repeats! Delphina is easy to grow in full sun, and attracts butterflies as well as hummingbirds. Nibbling rabbits and deer leave it alone, and it makes excellent cut-flowers, whether fresh or dried.

This sun-lover appreciates deadheading to stimulate rebloom. But be sure to leave the final flowers of the season on the plant, so it can self-sow! Zones 3-7. Direct-sow these seeds into the warm spring soil or, for quicker blooms, begin indoors a few weeks before the last anticipated frost.

The seeds germinate within 2 weeks at 60 degrees F, lightly covered (or dropped into the planting holes of the Bio Dome.) After the seeds sprout, grow on in a low humidity setting with cooler temperatures. It is ready to transplant when it has 5 or 6 sets of true leaves and the soil is warm.