Larkspur stands for the glossary entries with “R” and for all plants with special large flowers that are wonderfully suited to real small highlights in our gardens to grow up.
The delphinium has earned its representation through its persistent growth habit, and because the long-lived Perennials grow into such stately flowers that are truly unparalleled with their imposing flower spikes seek. Larkspur needs a very humus and nutrient-rich soil, if this is kept reasonably moist, the delphinium is otherwise easy to care for. If it's in full sun, it's often so willing to flower that its white or blue bis purple flowers twice a year (but then it has to be cut back after flowering in early summer). become). Depending on the variety, larkspur can reach any height between 0.5 and 1.8 meters, it flowers from June until September.
Gladioli and sunflowers also give us strikingly large flowers at some height above the ground, both tall flowering plants that have been somewhat forgotten and far too rarely our home gardens adorn. Then there are several varieties of lilies and dahlias that develop surprisingly large flower heads, hydrangeas with theirs ball-shaped or plate-shaped huge umbels, and the butterfly bush and many other plants with long panicle flowers.
But the “R” category does not only include delphiniums, of course, but also radishes, ranunculus, borage asters, everything for your own cultivation Rice plants, an explanation of resistance in plants and contributions to radish, rhubarb, rhizome locks, bark balm, marigold, rosemary, rose and copper beech, for example. Any more ideas? Mail us!
