Re: columbine
- Subject: Re: [SG] columbine
- From: G* K*
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 22:44:38 -0500
I believe that most varieties of columbines will cross with other
columbines. I grow Aquilegia vulgaris, and while most of them are purple,
an occasional plant will be white or violet. Aquilegia coerulea are mostly
blue and white, but occasional plants will be just white. Aquilegia are
notoriously promiscuous. Aquilegia canadensis seems to come true from seed
all of the time.
Gail Korn
Garden Perennials
Wayne, Nebr.
Zone 4
At 11:01 PM 6/1/01 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 6/1/01 9:04:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>ritaxis@CRUZIO.COM writes:
>
><< of life, but the folks at the UCSC Arboretum and Native Plants
> Society
> told me it was a very short-lived plant, almost an annual, so I
> started
> thinking of it differently. If I could get it to reseed in
> drifts, whatever
> >>
>
>Lucy, where do you live. I have columbine plants that are years old and have
>huge trunk root systems. They come up everywhere and just bloom beautifully.
> I usually remove the top, the stems and leaves when I weed. I take the seed
>pods and lay them in areas where I want them to come up.
>
>After the stems and leaves are removed they usually come back with fresh
>foliage and complement the rest of the garden by just being a delicate
>foliage plant.
>
>I have not had my blues and whites to cross, the blues and whites remain, and
>the seedlings are the same.
>
>Narda
>SW OH z5
