Columbine (Aquilegia hyb.) is a wonderful cottage flower.
It offers height for the early summer garden, which is prefect for peering through when planted at the front of the boarder. Its dainty blooms dance on the breeze... and its colors and forms seem endless. And, as is true of most historical cottage flowers, they grow from seed very easily, given some nurture.
Here they are dancing in our
Shade Path garden. They are a great succession planting, filling the gap from
Narcissus 'Thalia' to the start of the
foxgloves (which you can see shooting up in this May 30th photo).
The only named variety I have, Aquilegia 'Nora Barlow'.
View from the sidewalk with the Aquilegia in the background of the beginning foxgloves. This tree is also slowly being covered by a climbing hydrangea (
Hydrangea anomala petiolaris) and Clematis 'Perle de
Azur'.
See more of the Shade Path in May... or June last year.
Yours are beautiful. And I have noticed that they are lovely everywhere this spring. Maybe they like this cooler weather.
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I have really come to appreciate these only just this year. Great pictures.
ReplyDeleteI like the foliage as well as the flowers. The Nora Barlow is especially gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteYour columbine are so lovely. I have Nora Barlow with its pretty dropping heads. I really like the first one you have pictured. Very pretty.
ReplyDeleteI've only had luck with two cultivars. Yours photos are lovely as is your garden.
ReplyDeleteThese are so pretty! I don't have any in my garden, but have vowed to change that next year!
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful columbines, love them!!! Always love wondering through your garden ;)
ReplyDeleteI love all the different columbines you have!!!
ReplyDeleteThey are so beautiful!
Sweetness! I just took a bunch of pictures of my violet columbines that I seeded throughout the backyard, they are so nice to fill in, plus they came true from seed - very frugal! They're actually blooming, unlike most of the plants that are waiting for warm weather. Love those columbine . . .
ReplyDeleteYou have so many nice combinations of plants ! Congrats !
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