Re: dolphin flower

**Pat Meadows p*@meadows.pair.com**

On Mon, 30 May 2005 06:17:04 -0500, you wrote:

>A customer came into the garden center where I work and asked if we 
>had "dolphin flower." She described the plant as about 20 inches tall 
>with a long, funnel-shaped blue flower and that she used it in a 
>hanging basket. She said the plant had just been named recently, 
>although she has seen it in garden centers the last several years.
>
>I have no clue. It's not 'Black & Blue' salvia, plumbago or anything 
>else I could think of to ask her. I've searched online, too, but no 
>luck.

Delphinium?

(Just because the word sounds a little like 'dolphin' and
the description almost fits.  Although I cannot see using
them in hanging baskets, maybe people do.)

Pat

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