Aquilegia Species, Columbine, Fragrant Granny's Bonnet

What is the scent like? What is the fragrance similar to? Is it light, honeysuckle-like? Or dianthus-like? Or something else?

Aquilegia fragrans is a medium size wild species of columbine which grows well here in my rock garden on a partshady position.

Herbaceous perennial from the Himalayas.

Has divided (2 ternate), soft, blue green leaves. Bears pendant, white or cream, ...Read Morescented, short spurred flowers which are sometimes tinted with a pinkish blue.

Flowers May-July

Likes a fertile, moist but well drained in full sun. It will cope with shade but does much better in sun.

It's a fairly short lived perennial which will sometimes self seed. It wasn't too keen on my heavy clay but it sometimes makes an appearance via the seeds of the original plant.