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richard-in-cincy

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I am in Lexington, Kentucky for the weekend and my friend has this beautiful plant that has fine filigree leaves and is covered with gentian blue flowers in the shape of the flowers of a delphinium. It is not spikes of flowers like a delphinium, just a compact shrubby plant covered with these precious blue flowers. I have never seen this plant before and she doesn't remember the name. The plant ID tag has long ago been discarded.

Does anyone know what this plant is? It is absolutely gorgeous.

This plant needs a home in my garden.

 
Miss Lola, thank you...

that's not it unfortuntley. The plant has fine filigree leaves and beautiful gentian blue flowers that look like delphiniums.

 
Richard, are the leaves: (more)

filigree but palmate ("Hand" shaped)like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphinium (Look on right of page)

Or does the leaf have more of a elongated shape with multiple leaflets?

And what do you mean by filigree? That the leaves are fringed or deeply cut?--or somewhere in-between?

From what I have read on the web, a larkspur is a delphinium and vice-versa.

Try this flower, go to the address below and then scroll almost halfway down the page; it is the biggest picture on the page. Look at the intense blue flowers in the picture with the finely cut leaves--they are larkspur (a form of delphinium). Is this your flower?

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/cottage/msg0409055710560.html

 
the leaves are similar to a fernleaf bleeding heart, small and fringed

there are no spikes like a delphinium or larkspur would have. It is individual blossoms at the end of stems that look exactly like single delphinium flowers.

 
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