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Please save me the job of working out what this is, its a pretty little flower I've not seen crop up in our beds before.
They're very nice and in two different colours
They're very nice and in two different colours
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Last edited by Jimny14; 01-06-2018, 08:50 PM. -
They are Aqueliga or colombine. They look like some of the long spur hybrids there others known as Grannies Bonnets and the flowers tend to hang down.Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet -
Awesome, thanks. And to think I've got a packet of seed for aqueligia that I never got round to planting that I decided I'd scatter around in late summer like naturally scattered seed from the plant n see if they come up.Comment
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I second roitelet, definitely aqualegia/columbine.
You can sow seeds now and you will have flowers next year, you can also save seed from your current plant when seeds dry after flowering, or let it disperse seed itself and you will have some more seedlings come up
Last edited by chillithyme; 02-06-2018, 06:32 AM.Comment
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I've never sown/planted any here, but they pop up all over my garden, in several pretty colours. The only one I dig out is a washed out, pale, dirty pink - luckily got none of those this year, just purple, mid pink and white They are perennial so you can move them around if they grow in the 'wrong' place, as well.
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Beware: once established they spread like weeds (pretty ones)Comment
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Thanks everyone, I'm not too concerned about them spreading, the look I'm going for in our garden is quite informal cottage garden.Comment
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