I LOVE growing giant flowers! Last year it was the fairy infested foxglove, this year it’s the delphinium.
While wading through this unbelievably beautiful jungle makes my heart skip a beat, I think I may have gotten a little carried away with our fertility program this spring ; )
If you too want giant flowers, here’s the secret. Lot’s of high quality compost! We top dress with 3-4″ in the spring and again in the fall. A healthy dose of an organic granular fertilizer at planting time. I love Nature’s Intent 9-3-4. And if you can make or score some compost tea, apply it every week either as a foliar spray or a root drench.
That and lots of love is all you need to grow giant, 10ft tall delphinium and any other monster flowers your heart desires!
This beauty was a recent entry on The Seasonal Bouquet Project a few weeks back. To soak in the magic that was harvested this week, including my all time favorite peony, head on over and check it out….
WENDY on
Beautiful. When should I transplant delphiniums into unheated hoophouse, zone 6.