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Post by jack66 on Apr 13, 2011 15:41:12 GMT -5
I sowed some seeds 2 years ago and today here the result but I do not know the name of this beauty.  Can you help me ,please ! |
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Post by blueadzuki on Apr 13, 2011 15:53:05 GMT -5
Easy, that's a columbine, Aqueligia vulgaris
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Apr 13, 2011 16:41:28 GMT -5
Yep a columbine. It's our state flower.  I personally like the yellow ones the best, but they seem to be more rare. |
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Post by heidihi on Apr 13, 2011 17:37:20 GMT -5
I love them!!! just beautiful ..I have them all over the garden and actually have some native ones in my woodland garden ..I am terrified they will cross pollinate some of mine have to the point I have a LOT of pale pinkish ones that are not so interesting and kind of weedy columbine I agree very pretty one! |
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Post by steev on Apr 13, 2011 20:30:44 GMT -5
There's a very nice small-flowered red one that grows wild along the Marin coastal area here in No Cal. Columbines in general are one of my favorite perennials, and self-seed adequately, as well.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Apr 14, 2011 6:04:47 GMT -5
I've tried to grow those a couple times without any luck, SO far. I wasn't able to guess. The colors reminded me of a fuchsia or an orchid but obviously that was not what it was.
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Post by atash on Apr 14, 2011 12:14:06 GMT -5
There's a very nice small-flowered red one that grows wild along the Marin coastal area here in No Cal. Columbines in general are one of my favorite perennials, and self-seed adequately, as well. Aquilegia formosa. It's a common, widespread, and variable species up and down the Pacific Coast, with several different forms. I have one in my yard. |
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Post by gakaren on Jul 7, 2011 22:16:31 GMT -5
MNJ, I am also in zone 8...right on the middle line between A/B...I have found that with our hot sun during the summers columbines need some shade in my area. I've planted them in with my hostas and they are doing fine....hardly any sun all day!
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Post by mnjrutherford on Jul 8, 2011 4:17:35 GMT -5
Do tell? I'll have to keep that in mind! I don't have any hostas just yet. We've been focused on food crops so far. We are just now beginning to work with flowers for the sake of flowers. I hear you have some fires going your way? We have one going a few miles away and the smoke is sucking the energy from us and making allergy symptoms go crazy.
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Post by raymondo on Jul 8, 2011 5:38:43 GMT -5
I don't have any hostas just yet. We've been focused on food crops so far. There are those that would likely consider hostas a food crop. |
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Post by ottawagardener on Jul 8, 2011 7:32:36 GMT -5
Hostons - the spring shoots of hostas - are used as a spinach substitute. Just ask Stevil (whose written about it), a HG member. It's surpising (or not) how many ornamentals are useful if not edible. |
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Post by mnjrutherford on Jul 8, 2011 8:23:51 GMT -5
I REMEMBER THAT! LOL Now that you've reminded me of course. ;o) Hostas are very popular around here as ornamentals. I should ask around to see if anyone has ever eaten them. I should also look up Stevil's comments on the matter.
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Post by seedywen on Jul 8, 2011 19:09:41 GMT -5
Aquilegias are notorious for natural hybridization.
Wouldn't worry about knowing the name. As May West once said, "Call me anything, you like. But just call me:)
I've had columbines in this garden for twenty years. The self-seeded plants come out in all different shades of white, pink, and purple, singles and doubles. Even 'Nora Barlow' shows up from time to time.
Also have translated the wild, red columbine from forest roads to my garden. Let it go to seed, hoping the plant would colonize or at least mingle with the domestics. The plant lived a few years in my garden. Then disappeared. Funny that.
Same story with quite a number of plants, I 'introduce' to the garden. Some take, some disappear. So now I'm more content to introduce plants to a new environment, with less attachment to the outcome. For years, I had a kind of '3rd Strike' rule. Would plant a purchased, traded or dug up from the wild in my garden, give it what amounts to my limited idea of 'optimum' conditions and if it transpired after the third planting, no more tries.
Now I'm more a one time...lucky. There's dozens or perhaps hundreds of plants especially edible varieties that have demostrated their ability to survive in my particular garden, through 20 years of conditions and care/ or lack thereof.
So if a plant can survive...welcome to the Hood!
If not, I enjoyed meeting you, if even for a single season.
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Post by steev on Jul 8, 2011 22:07:40 GMT -5
I've never seen my attitude toward women so well expressed.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Jul 9, 2011 9:57:10 GMT -5
I would KILL to have lupine growing in my garden! I've planted more seed for the damn things than I can count but has a single one grown? H E double TOOTHPICKS NO!
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