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krancmm said: Wow, those are the nicest Canterbury Bells I've ever seen. How did you figure out that they liked being in pots in the ground, along with delphiniums? What size pots do you use?

Thanks!

They're the only ones I've ever had, or maybe I should say, my first. I'd been trying to grow them for years and finally got lucky! I had a lot of trouble with rot (I guess??) before this. Last year I stuck the pots in the ground about halfway and surrounded them with compost as a way to try to keep them alive while we were away on vacation - and there they stayed. The pots are saved nursery pots - I'd say from 6" to 8", but deeper than wide. The roots that want to do so, grow out the holes in the bottom of the pots, down into our dense clay, and the crown stays good and dry is my best guess as to why it worked.



I lost the nursery Delphinium 'Butterfly Blue' over the winter (not in a pot ), but my seedlings are beginning to bloom now. Are they just sturdier, do you think?