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Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 09:15 pm:   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Can you tell me if you cut back the flowers as they start to fade will they rebloom?

Terryk - NY, Zone "6"
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Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 09:37 pm:   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Terry, I don't grow delphiniums myself, but I went to one of my favourite gardening books, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden, by Tracy DiSabato Aust. Her advice is to deadhead to lateral flower buds or cut off the flowering spike at a lateral leaf.After all the flowering is done, cut back to the basal foliage. Fertilize and compost for sporadic smaller and shorter rebloom. By the way, she refers to this plant as a "true maintenance magnet!

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Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 02:20 am:   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Or when they have finished flowering cut back to wherever the leaves still look decent. Then fertilize and water and you should have rebloom towards the end of summer. Emphasis on Should.

Gardenfiend - Germany, Zone "7a"
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Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 05:08 am:   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Thanks ladies for your advise and also for your searching through your books Patsy.

Terryk - NY, Zone "6"
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Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 10:21 pm:   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Gardenfiend wrote on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 11:08 pm:

Or when they have finished flowering cut back to wherever the leaves still look decent



I do find that many of my delphinium rebloom in the fall using Mara's method

SusanQ - Zone 4b-5b Wisconsin
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Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 06:57 am:   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I will have to try the cut back method so then I may have some blooming again with the flush of fall roses that always come. But let's not dwell on fall too much, let's enjoy the warmth of summer!

By the way, found out something interesting about the white delphiniums when cut and they start to fade they turn a tint of blue!

Terryk - NY, Zone "6"
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Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 05:02 pm:   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I have regularly had success with reblooming with my pacific giant 'percival'. The plant needs full sun though in order to accomplish this and sometimes if you have other plants in the way, this becomes impossible.

Hydrangea - Ontario, Zone "Canada 5b USA 4"

   

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