I bought the Connecticut Yankee Delphinium because it was not as  tall as the dramatic and more familiar delphiums, and knew that it did not need staking.  That is the attribute that famous photographer Edward Steichen was searching for when he hybridized the Connecticut Yankee. Steichen had a passion for delphiums and grew five acres of the flowers at his Reading, Connecticut home. He  was so passionate that he brought them to the Museum of Modern Art in New…