Not a title I was expecting to write, but I had to share this snippet from one of the nurseries taking part in the RHS Chatsworth Flower Show. This peacock was (metaphorically) strutting its stuff as part of the silver-gilt winning display of elatum delphiniums by Home Farm Plants of Covington.
Home Farm Plants is a family run nursery that uses traditional methods to grow delphiniums and other cottage garden perennials for sale to visitors on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Their website also mentions that they offer pick your own seasonal cut flowers at certain times of the year. I wish, wish, wish they were close enough for me to take advantage of that!
If you missed my earlier post of highlights from the show, you can find it here.
Shared as part of Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Susan Rushton 
That’s a really cool and beautiful peacock.
I’ve been wondering since how it was constructed.
Oh what a beautiful peacock. 😀
I’ll never look at a delphinium in the same way again 🙂
this is lovely and very clever
I’m glad you thought so.
Very cute. I love the idea of a “pick your own” flower place. I hardly ever buy cut flowers because of the packaging and transportation, but would love to be able to go and pick some locally.
I can imagine it is very tempting when you’ve finished to pick just a few more stems… then just a few more…
At least, unlike pick-your-own fruit places, the owners don’t have to allow for the stuff that’s consumed while you’re picking 😀
I wonder if there are eat all you can, buffet style fruit picking places?
The strawberry gardens here are a bit like that. There’s not much the owners can do short of installing surveillance cameras, so I guess the build the buffet into the price of the fruit you take home.
Amazing!!!
Thank you!
What a perfect way to display such a showy flower! Beautiful! Your mention of the cut-your-own nursery brings memories of going with my mother to what we called the peony farm, where people could cut their own. What luxury!
That would be my idea of a luxury. The chance to take a few pictures would be too!
Clever way to show off their beautiful delphiniums! 🙂
Delphiniums can be quite rigid looking at the shows and I can’t imagine them being easy plants to move around. It would be lovely if one year the RHS would allow nurseries to combine the plants they grow themselves with any other plants they like to see them growing alongside.
That would be interesting and give a good idea of how to get the best from plants…
When I read the title, I wasn’t sure what I was going to see when I clicked on your post. Fabulous!
‘Peacock’ would be a good name for a particularly showy delphinium – a blue and green one, perhaps.
Magnificent! The poor birds should be jealous.
It would be interesting to see what a lady peacock would make of this.
But a fun title nonetheless.
A chance to be fun and factual at the same time!