Canadian Gardening: Columbines of all sorts, 1 by Todd_Boland

Todd_Boland wrote:
DigD, I just starting checking this thread. I also have a fair number of columbines but only a few of the vulgaris types; white, pink, pale blue, deep blue, purple-blue, bicoloured blue and white, wine-red, pink-long spurred, clematiflora in white, pale pink, deep pink and wine-red. I prefer the dwarf alpine types. Among those I have A. flabellata, A. flabellata 'Cameo', A. flabellata 'Alba', A. saximontana, A. bertolonii, A. laramiensis, A. ecalcarata, A. kuhistanica, A. discolor, A. viridiflora. Stratifying now for germination (hopefully) next month are A. grahamii, A. rockii, A. canadensis, A. formosa, A. desertorum and A. jonesii. Here's a pic of A. kuhistanica...I think it is correctly A. atrovinosa. The flowers are almost black-purple.