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In these pages, David & Shirley Bassett share their experiences in growing

DELPHINIUMS

Details of our new Book are given below

 

 

TOPICS

1. Summerfield Delphiniums 2. Fascinating Florets 3. Delphiniums from Seed 4. Delphinium Species 5.Delphinium Society Show

This page was last updated 21/03/08

Background: Sheep at Warriner School Farm, Bloxham, on their Lambing open afternoon, 16th March

Consider joining the Delphinium Society if you love delphiniums

 

After dry weather with severe night frosts in February our delphiniums had made little growth. Then 30mm of rain on 15th/16th March brought renewed flooding in the fields around our garden and in the Sor Brook valley. Garden work was impossible so we visited the farm at Warriner School, Bloxham, at the end of our lane to see the new life in the lambing pens and the farrowing pens for the Gloucester Old Spot pigs. There were several sets of triplets in the lambing pens, and several batches of cute piglets. Back home there are many batches of baby delphiniums indoors on the window sills, so there is new life all around us.

 

OUR NEW BOOK

"Delphiniums" by David and Shirley Bassett

ISBN (13digit) 9780713490022

was published in the UK in November 2006 by Batsford, an imprint of Anova Books Company Ltd.

It can be ordered direct from the publisher at their website: www.anovabooks.com

In North America the book is published by Timber Press and can be ordered from their website: www.timberpress.com

Alternatively, try other booksellers, eg Amazon
Extensively illustrated with our photographs, this 160 page book has a detailed survey of delphiniums in cultivation and also includes a survey of wild delphiniums from around the world. We discuss the basis of breeding cultivated delphiniums and describe how we make crosses. We describe how delphiniums may be used in gardens and give details of cultivation methods for plants in the open ground and containers. We describe how to raise delphiniums from seed, how to propagate them from cuttings and the pests and diseases that can affect them. We include details of special procedures required for growing some wild delphiniums.