Tall Delphinium blooms like dancing blue elves

About the author: One Hand with a Brush, One Hand with Flowers, landscape architecture major, has deeply loved plants and nature since childhood, hopes to always work in a plant-related field, in this world only beautiful flowers and delicious food are not to be let down, Weibo @One Hand with a Brush, One Hand with Flowers

As someone who visits a botanical garden wherever I go to play, when I went to Shenzhen, I had of course long since put Fairy Lake Botanical Garden on my itinerary, looking forward to it, excited, wondering what kind of beautiful treasures would be waiting for me there?

When I arrived at the botanical garden and looked at the attractions on the map, the name "Butterfly Valley Hidden Orchids" immediately caught my eye. Surely a place for growing orchids must hide no small number of surprises, so I would go there first.

Approaching the scenic area, before I even saw the orchids, my eyes were first captivated by blue flowers.

Moving blue-purple flows through the flower border; this is the stage of blue elves. Whether a few stems or a whole clump, in the bright weather that blue-purple shone and sparkled, the entire flower cluster was lit up, and even the blue sky lost its color. The blue elves in the flower border laughed and played, as if waving to me, telling me of the warmth of spring, sharing a brilliant time together.

I could not help stepping forward, wanting to grasp the water sleeves she tossed my way. Delphinium elatum, I called out your name; would you answer me? A perennial herb of the Ranunculaceae family, Delphinium genus, also known as spike delphinium, larkspur, and so on. "Que" and "yan," such light, nimble names, as if flying; I truly fear that if I do not linger a while longer over your beauty, you will whoosh away in flight.

With "tall" in its name, among herbaceous plants it naturally does not grow short, with stems 70-130 cm high. The pentagonal reniform leaves remain lower down, while the long raceme extends high above the top of the plant, the flowers packed densely against one another. Yes indeed, the most beautiful part should be held up high. The blue varies from light to deep, with more or less purple, and a pure white center; whether lightly made up or heavily painted, it is always just right.

Such a large cluster of flowers is also a somewhat sweet burden. Some flower stems cannot bear the weight and tilt and bend, the beauty lying drunk, with dusty miller as a pillow and dianthus as a blanket, which has a charm all its own. Besides being used in flower borders, Delphinium elatum can also be used as a cut flower. If you grow her in your own garden, the bent-over ones are just right to cut and put in a vase; indoors and outdoors, spring light everywhere.

The beauty lying drunk, with dusty miller as a pillow and dianthus as a blanket...

After enjoying the blue, it was time to enjoy the orchids. Here is a Dendrobium thyrsiflorum, with clustered flowers; some say she looks like pineapples hanging one by one on the tree, very cute indeed. Here is another photo of the misting in the shade garden, just like a fairyland.

But no matter how many more flowers I saw afterward, none could compare with this blue elf, which instantly crashed into my heart. Blue elf, may I invite you to dance a praise dance of spring?

The photo shows the "Butterfly Valley Hidden Orchids" scenic area

Author: One Hand with a Brush, One Hand with Flowers

Images: Jiang Someone / One Hand with a Brush, One Hand with Flowers

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