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Delphinium Gallery 2004

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shadehouse shadeho8use

Getting ready for a new pollinating season.

  Two weeks later.
shadehouse   shadehouse
Another two weeks...   And two more weeks!
xmas day   trials
Xmas Day and pollinating is in full swing.   This looks like a real mixture but the delph are, in fact, in rows of all the same colour and the photo was taken looking across the rows.
trials   closeup bud
Taken across the same beds as the previous photo but from highter up and at a different angle.   A double flowered shell pink about to open.
shadehouse   closeup blue
In the pollinating house.   2004 produced some very interesting double flowered spikes such as this blue with the green tinged centre.
frilly   closeup mauve
A very pale pink with green tinged centre.   And a generously petalled mauve, again with green tinged centre.
mauve dark edges   double frilly
And then there was this little beauty!   Some fell over!
royal aspirations    
Royal Aspirations parent stock waiting for pollen.    

 

 
 
 

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