delphinium belladonna

My friend Berthele came to visit me this week and thanks to her plant madness this jewel lives in my balcony now.

Name: delphinium belladonna "Knight's Spur"

A blue apparition, iridescent transparencies, sugar petals, a witch's hat. The blossoms look like comets frozen on their celestial race or like chubby birds with long tails.

Highly toxic and  charming, this plant is the material of sorcery stories and of metal magic.

Thanks Berthe for your boundless passion.