The best part of living somewhere cold and snowy is that the wildflowers that bloom after winter bring me a sense of delight I can’t quite describe.
Here in Alaska, it’s the wild roses, bluebells, and fireweed that appear in spring which make every cold day worthwhile.
In Montana, where I grew up, it was the arrowleaf balsamroot, lupines, and wild larkspur.
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Even if you don’t live in a state with freezing cold winters, you can still enjoy some of these magical flowers that lift the spirits come spring.
Like larkspur. Oh, how I love the tall spires, with their blue, violet, rose, and white blossoms.
If you’d like to grow this gorgeous annual in your garden, this guide has got you covered.
What Are Larkspur? (And Are They the Same as Delphiniums?)“Larkspur” is such a cheerful name, isn’t it? It makes me think of early summer, dewy mornings, and everything good and wonderful in this world.
An early mention of the name occurs in John Gerard’s book, “The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes,” published in 1597.
Isn’t that spelling just epic?
Gerard refers to these as “Larks heele,” “Larks claw,” and “Larks spur.” All of these names reference the flower’s resemblance to the claw of a lark.
Can you see it?
The flower is also sometimes called knight’s-spur.
Of this bloom, Gerard writes, “The seed of Larks spur drunken is good against the stingings of Scorpions; whose vertues are so forceable, that the herbe onely throwne before the Scorpion or any other venomous beast, couseth them to be without force or strength to hurt, insomuch that they cannot move or stirre untill
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