My favourite aquilegia plus the best of this months blues.

Aquilegia are one of my favourites: they look good, self seed and with luck will produce something new as a result of cross pollination. See my latest blog for one that has appeared in our border. The one in your pic is lovely. I think that once established, it will continue to flower rather than revert. But any seedlings, particularly if you have other aquilegia around, are unlikely to be true to form. Still, the aquilegia lottery is fun as you never know what the off-spring will look like!

lovely flowers, i really like that aquilegia and the rose looks good too.

Some very nice flowers there.

I love that rose - there are a lot of David Austin roses that I would like to see in my garden - I can always live in hope !

have you ever been to david austin roses mariek?

Thanks for your comments. Mariek, all the David Austin roses I sent for from the brochure .I did it year by year plus alot of garden centres do D .A. roses.

Hi Sticki - No I haven't, but I can imagine that it must be gorgeous when the flowers are all out.

Hi Rose - Yes I have a DA catalogue and am thinking of ordering some this autumn although one of my local GC's sells a few. I've started a "Rose" savings jar !

Blue is my fav colour :) You have some nice blue flowers. I'm pleased your aquilegia has kept to it's form.

its a lovely place to visit if you can make it ~ not huge but they have 2 sections ~ one part is a garden full of roses, all labelled, you can walk along, enjoy the roses and decide which you like, then you can go into the other part where they are all set out in a grid and you can select what you like. there is also a nice shop and i think a tea room but we didnt [sadly] have time for that.

A good looking Rose, don`t think you can beat David Austin roses. As Sticky says its well worth the visit.

I love that Aquilegia, it's a beauty! : o )

I agree, that Aquilegia is gorgeous, and as for the rose...I can almost smell it! It's just a typical cottage garden rose, isn't it, it deserves something like that beautiful aquilegia clustered around it's feet, just lovely!

Thanks once again for all your comments .Have you had another go with your seed potatoes, Stick. Let me know how you get on.

Gorgeous Aquilegia...I have bought 'Yellow Queen' this year...just beginning to open now...