Very nice, Carol! I've always loved delphiniums, but I don't think they would do good here, yours are lovely! Your roses are looking good!

Rosies are lovely and clean...no thrips! Really like the delphiniums.

Beautiful stripes on Julio Iglesias!

Sara-Ann - yes, delphiniums are the show cases of the garden here. They are truly beautiful!!

Kentuckyrose - Yes!! Yay for the blue cups!! I love delphiniums!!! I'm so glad they grow here.

Henrik - Yes, they look really bold there. Thanks!

Carol

Love the delphiniums and Chandos beauty is a REAL beauty along with Alnwick and Ethelburga. Just beautiful!!

Thanks, April!!

I'm so happy to have roses to contribute. I love the fragrance of all of those!

carol

They are all gorgeous..nice lovelies

Hi Carol - thanks for posting the photos of Strawberry Hill! I needed to see another one to help me evaluate my SH's progress.

Ann

Simply beautiful Carol!! I love delphiniums too but just don't have the knack to grow them. Your "shortys" are beautiful! Your roses look stunning. I especially love St Ethelburga, Alnwick, Strawberry Hill and Chandos Beauty. St Ethelburga is new to me this year and so far I think it's going to be great. I'm going to have to put blue cups back out bc the thrips are back. I thought they went away after spring? Do you know? I laid my cups on the ground so they wouldn't show up so much so not sure if they worked as good as they could have. I'm so ready for the thrips and beetles to leave me alone. Grrrrr. Judy

Fantastic photos Carol! Hooray for those blue cups... :)

Thanks Rose_crazy!! I'm really glad I got that rose!

Ann - So how is your SH doing? I've got mine tied horizontally and up on a modified tomato cage. So the canes get a lot of dominant nodes (is that the right term) instead of one at the top. Hence lots of roses!!

Judy - Does your St. Ethelburga have a wonderful smell in your hotter zone? Delphiniums form the bones of my garden. I have them in a lot of colors. I find that there's a caterpillar that comes every spring and causes black crud on the top of the delphinium plant. So I cut off the top of the plant. It grows a bit...the worm comes back. I cut off the top of the plant. Then the worms don't come back and the plant blooms. Do you think that's what's happening when you grow delphs? Yeah, the cups probably have to be up higher. I hope your plants get some relief from all the bugs!!

Jim - Thanks, Jim! Yay for the blue cups!!

Carol

Hi Carol - my two SH plants are in the ground and still tiny at just over a foot tall but it's only been a few months. I'll be interested to see how they are next year.

Check out this photo from England of someone growing 3 SHs that are now 8ft tall and held up by an obelisk. He said he would have only bought one instead of three if he'd known SH would get so big.

Strawberry Hill

Ann

Yes, they should be nice and large in your zone. Lots of pictures next year!! Yup, his SH are huge!!

Caro

'Strawberry Hill' looks luscious. Love all your pastel pinks.

The lavender delphiniium is swoon-worthy.

Irisgal - thanks so much!! Yes, SH might be my new favorite rose. It's the only rose I have that had one whole half of the bush not get ruined by hail. My lavender delphs say "nahtrually dahling - we're divahs!!" Yeah, I love them too. :)

Carol