I'm pleased with my Aquilegias this year

[revmichael]

OI've just taken this picture of some of them which are flowering in the front garden.

[Ivan Astikov]

Very pictureskew and photogenetic.

[Peek]

That's exactly how mine look too, lol !

We never planted our aquilegias, they just seem to have self sewn themselves, and normally I pull half of them up before they get too big, but I decided to leave them this year to fill in some gaps from plants I'd taken out.

[ivy noidea]

Mine are looking stunning this year too. The recent hot spell seems to have brought them on in leaps and bounds.

As for Peek's not having been planted by her, there is a grass verge I pass on my walk to work which is full of aquilegias in various colours in amongst the nettles etc. They look beautiful and must have been planted by the wind or the birds.

[tigerlily]

I love aquilegias, and used to have a garden full of deep purply-blue ones and more delicate white with a pink blush ones.

Gorgeous flowers!

[revmichael]

Most of mine are self seeded too.
Although there is a lovely sky-blue one (that can hardly been seen in my photo) that is a special heritage one. I've had it for quite a number of years and each year it stays true to it's original colour.

[Fi]

May 15, 2008 14:33:42 GMT revmichael said:

Most of mine are self seeded too.
Although there is a lovely sky-blue one (that can hardly been seen in my photo) that is a special heritage one. I've had it for quite a number of years and each year it stays true to it's original colour.

The colours of the flowers on individual plants won't vary, so being perrenial they are a guaranteed annual treat. However, aquilegias do self seed freely and their offspring can be any colour until, with several crosses, they return to the natural purple of the original wild aquilegias. Our garden is full of the things - they do self seed very easily - and I pull them out if they produce purple flowers. However, a few of the crosses have extremely attractive pink double, or even double double, flowers, so they are left alone in the hope that they will go forth and multiply.