Out of all the plants we grow in our garden it's the Aquilegia that surprise me the most. Each year we have new seedlings and each seedling sports a different flower form or colour. These plants are notoriously promiscuous and doesn't it show!
Here's one of last years seedlings with a large dollop of Pom-pom series genetics, it's a hybrid of Vervaeneana Group (gold splashed leaves) with a Pom-pom Series type. This chap has 9 layers of petals on most of his flowers.
Baa - that's a beauty! Love the rich color too.
oh yes, oh yes!! A Beauty.
One of my very favorites, All Columbine.
Baa, can you believe they do well for me here in GA?
Very Nice!
Baa, that is beautiful. I have 2 kinds now and wonder if some surprises will pop up this year. PS, we miss you over on the farm forum.
Thanks all! After I posted this one I found a pic of the pompom parent of this one, if I can make it reasonable I'll post it up here too.
Violabird
The way these things grow here I can believe almost anything of them! *G*
Mary
I'd love to see what turns up for you.
I daren't visit the Farm Forum, the main reason being that it breaks my heart not to be in the industry anymore. I've had to take a positive step to try and put that life behind me now, but you know how it is, once a farmer always a farmer. I loved your lamb pictures by the way, I was too choked to write anything at the time.
Baa, you are having quite the mild weather right now...My cousin lives in Portsmouth and she agreed with me on that! E.
I have never worked with aquilegias, I dont care much for the regular ones, but these are stunning.
Are there others with this shape?
Roselaine
Yes it's been a pleasant spring so far.
Lavanda
Below is a true pompom, they are just called the Pompom series and were popular in Victorian gardens. There are also the stellata types (once called clematiflora), these are more available and the Barlow series (a stellata type) of Aquilegia is very popular. Doubles and trebles are quite widely available if you're looking for something which resembles a crinoline skirt.
Here's a very poor photo of a treble (another seedling from the above Pompom)
