Propagation: What have you wintersowed so far #4, 1 by

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Now this one A. 'Red Star' is a hybrid and tend to revert. Sometimes the seedling from this one set different bi-colored flowers. Will see what comes up this year.

I have tried others such as A. 'William Guiness' . It bloomed one year then disappeared.
Also started the Barlow mix with the double flowers. They too disappeared.

A few years ago I bought many different varieties of Columbines. They were commercial seeds. Always came up, though slow to germinate, and bloomed as they should. The plants died out and self sowed which were different from what I sowed. When I researched this genus of plants, it was stated that many hybrids in this family revert, and are short lived although they self sow freely.

I have on the north side of my garage a border of the yellow one shown above. It is the only one that comes up the same every year. The plants seems to be more long lived than the hybrids. I have had them growing there for 4 years without a change.

Caption: A. 'Red Star'