Aquilegia
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Aquilegia alpina
Alpine or Mountain Columbine€2.25Aquilegia alpina is a species-columbine that rivals the fanciest cultivars and has been grown in gardens for as long as the idea of gardening has existed. It is a clump-forming perennial with deep blue-green, downy foliage and vibrant violet blue nodding flowers in late spring and early summer.
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Aquilegia atrata
The Dark Columbine€2.10Aquilegia atrata is a beautiful free flowering species that is native to the alpine meadows and forest clearings of Switzerland and Northern Europe. With many branching stems of deepest coloured, almost black flowers. This is an outstanding, highly sought species that would be a showstopper in any garden.
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Aquilegia canadensis
Rock Bells, Dwarf Red Columbine€2.35Native to Canada and the US in all states east of the Rockies, this superb variety is quite unlike the usual Aquilegia. Growing just twelve to eighteen inches tall, with dark-green foliage and eye-catching, scarlet and lemon-yellow flowers which hang like drifts of softly illuminated lanterns.
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Aquilegia chrysantha ‘Yellow Queen’
Golden Columbine€1.95Aquilegia chrysantha ‘Golden Queen’, is quite simply one of the most beautiful Aquilegias. With mid-green foliage and long-spurred, golden-yellow flowers. The large blooms are upward facing and are produced generously in early summer. This is one plant that is guaranteed to create a stunning display.
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Aquilegia var. stellata 'Barlow Mix'
Clematis Flowered or Rose Columbine.€2.00Aquilegia var. stellata 'Barlow Mix' is one of the really exceptional doubles forms of Aquilegia. It is the first Aquilegia series with fully double, spurless flowers. Stylish and elegant, with a graceful upright habit they grow to around 80cm tall. It produces many stems and makes an ideal cut flower.
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Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White'
Also known as 'Nivea'€2.25Aquilegia 'Munstead White' is a handsome form, is reputed to have been specially selected by early twentieth-century garden writer and designer Gertrude Jekyll. Their abundant, bee-pleasing, white flowers will bloom in late spring and early summer are perfect for shade.
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Aquilegia vulgaris 'William Guinness'
Also known as “Magpie”€1.75Out of stock
Eye-catching, purple-black flowers with contrasting white centres appear in late spring and early summer above fern-like, mid-green leaves this variety is something special. 'William Guinness' is a superb and reliable Aquilegia variety that makes an ideal cut flower, it grows and blooms well in shady areas.
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Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata 'Nora Barlow'
Clematis Flowered or Rose Columbine.€2.45Emma Nora Barlow was a formidable woman and a granddaughter of Charles Darwin. She enjoyed hybridising plants and gave some seeds to the nurseryman Alan Bloom who named his commercial stock after her. Together they produced a cottage garden classic.
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Aquilegia x hybrida, 'Blue Star'
Long-Spured Columbine€1.50Out of stock
The 'Star' series was bred to have upward facing flowers; it is similar to the Mckana varieties but in single colours. With violet-blue petals with a pure white corolla, this early summer cottage garden favourite produces striking, long spurred blooms year after year.
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Aquilegia x hybrida, 'White Star'
Aka 'Kristal' and 'Crystal Star', Long-Spured Columbine€1.50The Star series was bred to have upward facing flowers, similar to the Mckana varieties with elegant white flowers with long spurs and tidy mounds of fern like foliage. This pure white columbine looks equally wonderful in a sunny, herbaceous border or to light up a dark corner of the garden.