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Purple Varieties
... beautiful deep purple with a white eye obtained by crossing the Blackmore & Langdon purple ... sepals coloured pink and one plant produced a stem with the whole bloom coloured pink. S. Oberon flowers two to three weeks earlier in the season than most other purple varieties. The colour is then a pure velvety purple but as the flowers age, or later in the season, some blue develops on the sepals ...
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... that give the flowers their attractive appearance. These are sepals or tepals, although they are commonly called petals. Their function ... wild delphinium there are five sepals, but garden hybrids can have from five to fifty sepals! Removing the sepals reveals the true petals ... stalk or filament. Initially green, the anthers become black or purple at maturity and split to release pollen grains when the ...
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DELPHINIUM SEPALS
... Page Fascinating Florets 3. SEPALS The purpose of the coloured sepals of delphiniums is to attract insects or humming birds ... Despite the failings, looking closely at the sepals shows that the edges of the sepals are more heavily pigmented than the ... sepals are eventually a deep inky blue. Interestingly, the spur is just a very short knob and the purple anthers are prominently exposed. The sepals ...
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Breeding White Delphiniums
... pollen from a blue or purple delphinium, the resulting seeds are most likely to give plants with blue or purple flowers. To be ... does not always have a well-formed eye and the distinction between sepals and petals is then blurred. Lilian Bassett White Ruffles As was ... different from the cell layer responsible for the colour of sepals and petals. A crucial point for the stability of such 'sports ...
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DELPHINIUM SPECIES
... to about 30cm tall. With their slender long spur, the large purple-blue florets (left hand picture below) that opened in late ... that faded to pale grey (right hand picture below). The lateral sepals reflexed strongly back as the flowers aged. These seedlings were ... delphiniums. The flowers were large with bell-shaped flaring of the sepals rather like that of a campanula. This is seen for florets ...
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DELPHINIUM SOCIETY MAIN SHOW 2006
... ' from Stan Ellison won FIRST PRIZE, while the smaller bloom of purple 'Summerfield Oberon' from Keith Boxall had SECOND PRIZE. These blooms ... have pronounced deepening of the colour towards the edge of the sepals was awarded a SECOND PRIZE. Class 15: One spike, pink. One ... . Three entries. FIRST PRIZE went to a fine set of dark purple florets from Stan Ellison, seen below, SECOND PRIZE to huge florets ...
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DELPHINIUM SOCIETY SHOW
... this class were of an excellent standard with some spectacular long blooms of the popular purple cultivar 'Bruce', seen in close-up in the right hand picture. One lovely long bloom ... Cracker' with pale violet flowers having pronounced patterning of the colour intensity in both the sepals and eye petals. The entry from Keith Boxall was third. Class 13: One spike seedling ...
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Delphinium requienii development
... about half the length of the sepals, which are pale pinkish-violet in colour with purple veining on the back surface. The prominent group of dark purple stamens add to the curious charm ...
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GROWING DELPHINIUM STAPHISAGRIA
... smaller flowers of D. requieni. Flower development is interesting in that sepals are greenish yellow on opening. Colour then develops quite slowly, starting ... edging, moving inwards along the veins and spreading out until the sepals are completely blue. The petals forming the eye also become ... of the plants that grew outdoors in strong sunshine became quite purple, so it is easy to see how one can be ...
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Delphinium nuttallii development
... the bloom of older plants is also seen in D. trollifolium. Flower colour varied from purple to deep violet with some plants having flowers of a brilliant gentian blue. A notable ... plants grown. In particular, the Flora indicates that the raceme is compact with pedicels often < sepals, which was certainly not the case. It seems unlikely that this was a consequence of ...
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