Columbine - Aquilegia species - How to grow Columbine flowers
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- Опубліковано 4 гру 2012
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Columbines are perennial (sometimes treated as a biennial) woodland plants that bloom in spring and early summer. There are around 60 or so species within the genus Aquilegia, which gets its name from the Latin word for 'eagle,' aquila. It's a member of the Buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. This plant shares many flowering and morphological traits with other members of this family, including the fact that many contain cardiogenic toxins. The common name also comes from the Latin, columba for 'pigeon.'
Columbines grow well in partially shaded moist but well drained soils. They do okay in full sun up here in New England, but would need extra water. Planted as seed in year one, they form a nice rosette of slightly blue-green leaves with interesting shape and texture. In the second year, the blooms appear which can reach a height of two-and-a-half feet, but more often just eighteen inches. Columbines are hardy to USDA Zone 3, so even those of my readers up in the snow belt of Connecticut can grow these.
There is a wide range of flower colors available in columbine, as well as doubles (with multiples of the flower petals). These last I've tried and I'm not ecstatic about the look in Columbines. I love the simple flower for a number of reasons, partly because it's easier to see the recurved petals that give it the genus name. I'm not a complete Luddite as regards plant breeding, but in this case, give me the simple forms. Yellow, purple, carmine, pink, fuchsia, blue and white can be seen in the columbine garden.
The blooms last for several weeks in April and May then fade to nothing. The foliage remains interesting in the garden during the summer, adding that blue-green foil for other flowering plants and foliage types to preen and prance amongst. Add a mix of columbines to the woodland area, the cottage garden and the cutting garden. Columbine flowers make a nice display in a medium-sized vase.
Aquilegia/Columbine seeds are available here amzn.to/2sgdKwc
I've JUST started growing my own columbines from seeds. I'm hooked. Thank you for this in depth video. It covered a lot of ground. Hearing what to arrange with it in the garden is exactly the kind of info I'm looking for.
Glad it was helpful!
Absolutely love these flowers! We grow them all over our garden.
Trying to find references to draw Columbine, this flower is very complicated to draw and now i'm here listening to how to grow Columbine, amazing
Thank you so much 😀
I love these videos. Hope he makes more this year!
Thanks for watching! We are making more!
mine flowered and kept flowering into October. the guy at the nursery said they only bloom in the spring. but he was wrong. now I want to grow some from seed. Even if they don't bloom this year.
is so beautiful plants love
Thank you very much 😊
I have these in the garden in the UK, they are very popular with the bees in Spring, second only to Raspberries in the garden this year in terms the number of visiting bees.
I have a very pretty white one that looks like a mini Ranunculus 😂💕😍
When I bought my house twenty years ago, I bought from a local nursery and planted a columbine unlike any I've ever seen. It is not a typical columbine flower. The flower is fuzzy, powder-puff like, but the leaf is absolutely a columbine leaf. I had it in white and in purple, but one year after I cut it back, the purple didn't come back the next year. Have you ever seen a columbine like this? I'd love to get more, but I've never seen it again. I'm subscribing to you. I'd love to hear what you have to say. Ah! You're in New Haven. I'm in Danbury.
There is a good chance that you had Meadowrue which has foliage that is very similar to columbine but has the puffy flowers you describe and has varieties that include white and purple. We plan on doing a segment on Meadowrue soon. Thanks for watching!
@@Gardenclips I'll check it out. I do know the label said Columbine. Thanks.
I’m in Wolcott Connecticut
So where’s the part that explains about how to grow columbine?
I hve the common columbine ❤
Can these plant's grow inside you know or they have to be outside only to make it !
I cannot see any Aquilegia spezies... there are only upward facing cultivars and hybrids...
My columbines are growing so large that they are tipping themselves over. Should I be cutting them down shorter on a regular basis, or is there another way to keep them from tipping over like this???
So how do you get the seed to geminate? No mention of the most critical part.
@bhatkat - I just water mine, I haven’t fertilized mine.
Can it grow in climate above 30°c??
I think u can grow it first in early fall indoor , and it will flower in spring ..as i do .i'll give it a try😊
Pretty pictures but no information about seeding or planting
Why those in my garden are all face down?
You are growing other sorts, probably Aquilegia vulgaris. These upward facing ones are unusual: basically nurseries overcame issues of selling aquilegia plants by breeding sorter plants, then compensating with upward facing flowers!!
I suggest renaming your title. There was nothing on how to actually grow it.
exactly where are the seeds
Lot's of detail on everything but 'how to grow' them.
This video gives information about Columbines, but nothing about growing them.
I need to see how it's supposed to be pruned, CLOSE UP.
No such luck on that, either.
Um, nothing in this video talks about how to grow columbines.