Aquilegia viridiflora

love this!!

I think I have just grown some like this from seed (chocolate soldier)but I'm blowed if I can remember and all I put on the label is 'aquilegia'. I must learn my lesson I never remember anything in the garden!! I also had some pale lemony ones in a seed packet and goodness knows where they are now! However, the leaves are quite brownish on the seedlings so I'm hoping that is them!

Good luck - I like this, as I agree with Homebird. :-)

This is nice Spritz, I particularly like the colouring on the leaves.

it needs careful placing though, what have you got it with? very nice

It's in the island bed - so the colour is perfect there. :-)

Most unusual isn't it?

Yes - but I do like it. It's a small plant. You have to get down to peek at it. ;-)

That's different! Some of the new var. of aquilegia can be a little difficult to keep. I still have my old standard, but it's with my cousin at present. Won't be for long though... if we ever get spring, that is. :-)

It's strange over here at the moment, Lori - we've had very warm weather, and the plants are confused. I have flowers open that shouldn't be yet. And there's you, with spring still to come. Funny old world, isn't it!

This plant survived the winter - I'm going to try to collect seed from it if I can.

I find it a little confusing that some plants do not produce seed anymore. some of the new patented varieties have been altered genetically and they are lovely creatures but can only be propagated by cloning... I keep remembering a tv commercial from my youth that said: "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!" I've heard a lot of talk about the dangers of Genetically altered food crops too and have to wonder where it will all end. Someone at one of the universities should build a seed ark. I know there are sites on the internet devoted to "heirloom" seeds. Is all this "progress" really necessary, do you think?
As to the weather???????? I give up! lol...

Me too - plants are coming into bloom far too early, and not lasting. We do have at least one seedbank over here - Kew Gardens. They keep some at Wakehurst Place in Sussex, I believe.

I've never been happy about genetically altered food...I won't be buying it!

There are some plants that don't produce seeds - the double flowered ones. I wonder if they were bred or natural?

If you use soya in any form you may be eating genetically modified food! There are genetic patents now. It all sounds like a bad Science Fiction plot, doesn't it? They have altered the corn (Maize) crops over here. You see the corporate signs on the fields...and it makes me wonder about the cross pollenization that occurs with regular crops in adjacent fields??
I shall have to check my notes, as I think I heard a lecture on the newest method (this is 1970's) of propagation called meristematic culture..where the individual cells of the meristem are separated into x number of sister plants grown from the individual cells and nurtured in agar agar until they are large enough to put in soil based medium! IF that is what they were doing 40 years ago...imagine what could be the nub of propagation practices today!?
With regard to double flower sterility...I know that in the case of petunias they continue to blossom trying to produce seed! so there definitely was some "fiddling" done with their genetics! Also..although they don't produce seed they do produce viable pollen!

No, we don't eat soya, I'm glad to say Lori.

I have a Lychnis coronaria - double flowers - which is sterile. My husband is very puzzled as to how it reproduces itself - I had to tell him it didn't. It is a very beautiful plant, and I have to tell myself that it doesn't matter how it's propagated, and just enjoy it.