Re: Aquilegia vulgaris

I can't answer your overwintering question, but your pest was probably a
small green caterpillar (that's what attacks my columbines every June). 


At 10:34 PM 10/2/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello fellow plant lovers!
>
>    I'm living in USDA zone 5.
>
>    I have 2 specimens of Aquilegia vulgaris (I presume this is the
>species, I could be mistaken), an unknown variety of columbine, in plastic
>pots.  I purchased them this spring with the intentions of keeping one for
>myself and sending the other to a friend.  Unfortunately they had their ups
>and downs, and several times through the course of the year some pest
>completely stripped the foilage from their leaves.  
>
>    Now with winter fast approaching, I'm faced with the deciscion as to
>wether to drop them into the ground and hope that their root system is
>sufficient to tide them over to spring, or to bring them inside with my
>tender perennials and allow them to spend the winter under artificial (high
>intensity discharge) lighting.  The temperature indoor will likely be 55-65
>through most of the winter.
>
>    Does columbine require a cold, resting period in order to grow well?
>If so I might be ensuring their deaths by bringing them inside.  If they'll
>manage inside though, then perhaps I can have some extra growth on them by
>spring, and a head start on the coming seeason.
>
>   Any experiences out there either way?  Much thanks in advance for your
>time in reading this and in responding.
>
>Thanks for flying!
>Glider
>
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