Moonlight Blues Larkspur

Group/Class: New Millenium Series

Description:

A compact selection featuring sky blue double flowers with just a hint of soft pink, and contrasting brown bees; good vertical form, dense flower spikes and strong stems; remove spent flower spikes to promote reblooming

Ornamental Features:

Moonlight Blues Larkspur features bold spikes of sky blue flowers with shell pink overtones and brown centers rising above the foliage from early summer to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It's deeply cut lobed leaves remain dark green in colour throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Moonlight Blues Larkspur is an herbaceous perennial with a rigidly upright and towering form. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage.

This perennial will require occasional maintenance and upkeep. Trim off the flower heads after they fade and die to encourage more blooms late into the season. It is a good choice for attracting butterflies, bees and hummingbirds to your yard. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

• Disease
• Insects

Moonlight Blues Larkspur is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• General Garden Use
• Vertical Accent
• Container Planting

Plant Characteristics:

Moonlight Blues Larkspur will grow to be about 24 inches tall at maturity extending to 3 feet tall with the flowers, with a spread of 18 inches. It tends to be leggy, with a typical clearance of 1 feet from the ground, and should be underplanted with lower-growing perennials. The flower stalks can be weak and so it may require staking in exposed sites or excessively rich soils. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years.

This perennial should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This plant can be propagated by division.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.