AQUILEGIA: Black Barlow

Yummy colour!

Georgous colour

Is yours flowering now, Oddbillie ?
I love Aquilegias, have lots of them and although 'Winky Blue' is flowering my 'Black Barlow' isn't.
Wierd isn't it, they shouldn't be flowering just yet !

Alas, Louise, it is not. In fact, I may have overwatered mine through summer and thought I had lost it at one point!

The foliage is growing back but no flowers for a while now. Hoping for better things next year now I'm starting ro understand things a bit more:0)

If the foliage is coming back i think you'll be fine then :-)

I hope so as this one is particularly nice. It syas on the little card that came with it to cut back the leaves to ground level in Autumn to encourage rigorous growth the following year. Do you do this?

Actually i do cut them back but i started doing it because the foliage was covering the flowers around it !!!
I soon realised that by cutting it back it made a bigger and stronger clump so i've been shifting them around this year because they've outgrown their own 'areas' !

That's interesting to know Louise. I think I will cut them back for this Autumn and repot them in Spring to a bigger pot/area.

Thanks for that!

Lovely colour

like this one Dan a bit differant to the norm, they do go mad when establist, so as louise said you may have to break up the clumps, if you have them in a pot, which i havent done but think they are better in the ground, some plants can actually die in pots in winter because the frost gets to them, the ground is warmer from the summer thats why alot plant in autum so the warmth of the summer is still there till plant settles, in spring ground is cold from winter and the plant is slower to get settled, just a little something ive learned from reading on the web :o))

That's interesting San and something I'll take heed of.

I'm back in work tomorrow but off again on Thursday so will look at maybe finding a spot for it now somewhere!

they normally seed themselves to Dan, so you may find babies sprouting about lol

LoL!!

I might be a daddy.....WOO -HOO!!

lol Dan, how you going to tell Ali :o(

Good question and one for which I have yet to find an answer to....but I will:0)~

cant believe it Dan, you always have an answer lol, im dissapointed hehehehe

She knows I am a caring person and as I didn't....ahem, plant the seeds in the first place, I will therefore adopt the plants and nurture and love them as if they were my own. In time, Ali will learn to love them too and we can all be one big happy family!!!

There you go....simples!! :0)-

go on i`ll give you that one even though it did take a bit of thinking power :o)

How long did it take you to dream that one up, Dan??? LOL!