One of my favorite spring plants is the Columbine plant which comes from the buttercup family. It used to be called Granny's bonnet and that seems easy to understand when you look at the flowers. The common name columbine is from the Latin for Dove. The species is Aquilegia (meaning eagle). I will leave you the riddle of figuring that out because this post is just about the beauty of variety. All of these bloom in my front yard, many just appeared!!
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| State flower of Colorado |
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| This is our native columbine which came down from Canada. |
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| This is a photo-painting...just for fun and variety! |
wow. so many different varieties. they don't do well down here because of our heat and humidity. I've tried several times to grow that little red and yellow native variety with little success. we do have one variety, the yellow Hinckley's columbine that naturalizes down here but again I have had no success with it, either getting it to bloom or getting it to come back. trying again this spring.
ReplyDeleteJust about my favorite flower but I had no idea there were so many varieties.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photographs. Your yard must be stunning.
ReplyDeleteColumbines grow wild here in Vermont. I see mostly the red ones in rocky places.
Oh how I love Spring flowers. I may need to visit Trader Joe's for some tulips for the house. Your garden must be beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI love these things. I do wish that you would tell us what they were tho.
ReplyDeleteYour read too fast. They are varieties of columbine..Aquilegia. There may be various common names, but I do not know them.
DeleteVery colorful at this time of year.
ReplyDeleteSo many colors! If they grew here, i wouldn't mind having a few of each.
ReplyDeleteMy first columbine just opened. Soon we will have a variety. Columbines are so interesting because they cross pollinate, seed freely, and you never know what you'll get from self sown seedlings. Such a great plant for variety!
ReplyDeleteAlso one of my favorite flowers, I think the dark purple is our native aquilegia, hardly have any in this new garden but used to have lots in the old Bath garden. The foliage is so delicate as well.
ReplyDeleteLovely flowers, they are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI just saw a columbine plant that was a clue in Midsomer Murders. Sadly that is as close as I come to flora and fauna.
ReplyDeleteAs Ellen Abbott noted, those darling little short-spurred granny's bonnets don't do well down here and I've failed over and over trying to grow the native red & yellow columbine. In IL I planted quite a few and they then had a lovely time hybridizing with each other in semi-shade. In Texas I feel lucky to have 2 surviving plants of Hinckley's columbine this spring. They're beautiful and graceful with long spurs, but no they supply no variety.
ReplyDeleteLuckily I seldom move the furniture and eat the same thing for lunch every day so am not too bored!
Annie
Lovewly garden variety of color, n painting. Here we are just beginning. I have to take joy in other's plants. This week, back to periodic rain every day 40 degree aches n pains. Oh well!
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