Hmmmm ... I guess it may depend on location, since some of the ones people have listed as NOT blooming the first year have bloomed in their first year for me - Dianthus, Asclepias, and Rudbeckia. I did have to wait for the following: Aquilegia Belamcanda chinensis (Blackberry Lily) Echinacea Geum Shasta Daisy Gaillardia Kniphofia Penstemon Hey, after looking at snow for two months or more, I'm happy to look at some green, blooms are just icing on the cake! Bonnie

Thanks for all the comments. I'd be interested in seeing how this one performs later in the season when temps are more consistent in the 70's to 80's. Still lots of buds on this one. 3 scapes and lots of buds. The other dl Gaskins sent as a gift plant is CITRON ENCHANTER. Noticed today it has a scape coming up so I think by late June I should have some pics of that one too (I hope). Julia

As my Irish ancestors would say "Get away with ya and yer blue delphiniums". Like Debra said, those of us in warmer zones definitely have plant envy when it comes to delphiniums....I really like Fern Stone. What a bright cheery red to be your first bloom. Here's to lots more to come....Maryl

Whoa. RRD is in the Dallas Fort Worth area. It was there in scattered gardens (Jim and Eve Estes had it on one plant) and I had emails this spring from a garden just north of the metro area where a man was going to loose over a hundred roses to RRD. It got into his garden and he didn't get it identified for a while and it got firmly entrenched. He finally found a nursery where they'd identified it for another client the previous week and then he found the ebook. Until then, he had been told it was a nutrient deficiency and had been encouraged to fertilize heavily to cure it; that didn't work. Ann