Re: Check out Aquilegia Images
- Subject: Re: [SG] Check out Aquilegia Images
- From: M* T*
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 02:47:54 -0400
Thanks, Claire. I'd missed this post and enjoyed those images. Love
the spurs on Aquilegia pubescen - need to find seed for this one!
The species may not be as "colorful" as the hybrids, but the flowers
have charms often bred out of the garden varieties...would not mind
growing any of the pictured species at all!
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
Editor: Gardening in Shade
-----------------------------------------------
Current Article: Plants For The Damp Garden - Primulas
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/shade_gardening
------------------------------------------------
Complete Index of Articles by Category and Date
http://mtalt.hort.net/article-index.html
------------------------------------------------
All Suite101.com garden topics :
http://www.suite101.com/topics.cfm/635
----------
> From: Claire Peplowski <ECPep@AOL.COM>
>
> <A
HREF="http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~whittall/aquilegiaimages.html";>Clic
k
> here: Aquilegia Images</A>
>
> Following the discussions on Aquilegia, this appeared today on the
Alpine
> List. I am sending it along as it show thats most native
columbines grow in
> low rainfall areas and on soils that are free draining.
>
> It may be that some of the more colorful hybrids can manage other
conditions
> but most Aquilegias are not moist soil plants. At one time I
thought
> columbines were shade plants and some here do bloom well in the
shade. None
> maintain themselves in moister or thickly mulched soil. I do
nothing to
> help them along. What comes up blooms and is allowed to seed.
>
> Claire Peplowski
> NYS z4
