I’m sure many people do a double-take when they first see this unusual delphinium. While the ruffled flowers are a bold, sweet colour – we might call it light red, perhaps, or coral or salmon, with just a hint of a green stripe – they are contrary to what we’d expect.
I’ve spotted Delphinium ‘Red Lark’ at a couple of flower shows this summer and have admired its fullness – how the rosettes overlap to amply cover a sturdy spire.
It’s in the tradition of cultivars that go against what we see in our head when we imagine a type of flower – a rose that is black or bluish, an apricot daffodil, a green carnation, a pink bluebell.
So I can imagine this being one gardeners will love or hate. Unlike some of the softer pink and greyish lavender delphiniums, it seems strikingly modern.
Shared for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Susan Rushton 
So lovely 🙂
I’m glad you liked it.
Beautiful 😀
Thanks, Cee.
So unusual. Love it ❤️
Certainly an eye-opener!
Pretty. One would have to choose its companions wisely due to its unusual hue.
It could well clash with cooler colours.
It’s gorgeous! I am excited as I have recently sown some seed of a red one (‘Fox Orange-Red’) for next year. 😃
Good luck with them!
Thanks!
It’s definitely different, but you would have to choose other plants carefully.
It was in with a rainbow of colours, if I remember – quite bold contrasts.
Love it! But I certainly did a double take when I saw it was a delphinium.
Me too!
Being startled is part of it, yes? Hanging out with flowers is not for those who love the humdrum, and this most certainly isn’t. Nothing bashful about this beauty!
You’re right. Flowers never want us to pass them by, or so it seems.
I love this! I bought some at my local garden center and had them next to some roses and achillea. Sadly, delphiniums don’t last long in this climate so they’re really like annuals for us. Gorgeous while they lasted, though!
‘Gather your rosebuds while you may’ ought really to have been about delphiniums!
Well, this looks lovely. I tend to disapprove of ‘mucked about with’ flowers – think double snowdrops, frilly daffodils – but I might have to make an exception in this case.
These are most certainly mucked about with (probably in more ways than one).
Lovely
Thanks, Derrick.
I’ve never seen a delphinium that colour, and although I love the usual shades this is beautiful too 🙂
It is almost fluorescent.