Delphinium MAGIC VITA 'Blue and White'

Larkspur is a favourite perennial where varieties with blue flowers are most popular. Though, in modern gardens and better garden centres you can find new varieties with pink shades or even purple-red shades as well as white. The name delphinium was used to describe the shape of the flower bud which looks like a dolphin (rather fat one).

Magic Vita larkspur is a series selected from Magic Fountain™ series. It features plants of shorter habit and excellent health, especially when it comes to powdery mildew in summer. Flowers are semi-double and open from June until July, and if the plant is pruned back after flowering it can produce a few flowering stems in late summer or early autumn.

Magic Vita Blue and White has indigo blue flowers with a blue and white bee in the centre, where ‚bee‘ stands for a composition of several dwarf petals that look like a bee sucking the nectar. The basal leaves are mid green, matte, up to 20 cm across, palmate, 3- or 5-lobed. Stems are shorter, only about 40-50 cm tall but they are produced in larger number making a bushy habit.

Grow larkspur in any well-drained, humus-rich garden soil in full sun. It will benefit from mulching as it likes constant moisture. The plant contains toxin which may cause severe discomfort if ingested, or, to some, it may irritate skin. The plant is short-lived unless you dig out the clumps in the spring, divide them and plant back only the young and healthy ones. Use a high phosphorus fertilizer every year for profuse flowering. Fully hardy to min. -34°C (USDA zone 4), possibly more.

Last update 19-06-2015