Gardeners throughout the world love these majestic flowers but few are aware of the range of colour and form that are now available with the burst of new cultivars, several of which have been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Not just blue, but red, pink, violet, yellow and white forms are available. Two leading experts on raising and introducing delphiniums bring all their expertise and enthusiasm to this much-awaited guide, which includes:
- Garden delphiniums: an introduction
- Wild delphiniums * Cultivated delphiniums
- The Breeding of cultivated delphiniums
- Using delphiniums in the garden
- General cultivation: soil requirements
- Propagation
- Pests and diseases
- Breeding new delphiniums and growing delphiniums in containers
- ISBN13 9780713490022
- Publish Date 28 October 2006 (first published 8 February 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pavilion Books
- Imprint Batsford Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English