odd aquilegias.
fidgetbones
Posts: 16,714
in Plants
I have been looking at the touchwood site for aquilegias. I thought I would post some photos of mine.
0
fidgetbones
Posts: 16,714
fidgetbones
Posts: 16,714
fidgetbones
Posts: 16,714
Posts
The first one is Nora Barlow. The second has black barlow at the front of border ( sorry no close up). 3 is what I call raspberry ripple. 4 is pink pom pom. Apart from the original Nora Barlow, they just appeared in the garden
How exciting ! I am nurturing 3 v small Nora Barlows at the moment (another one of my "free" magazine offers) - so now as well as the plants themselves, I can look forward to some crazy offspring. Will plant them close to some of my existing aquiliegias so they can be nice and promiscuous
Mostly Nora Barlow seems to come true to type, but then I get these odd ones popping up. I suppose it helps that I am not very good at weeding.
They cross-pollinate like mad with the native ones and any other species in the neighbourhood although most don't turn out as pretty as those - you have some nice ones there, fidget! Breeding them is a lot of fun (bit of a hobby of mine) but I find most seedlings are not worth keeping so I wait for the first flower and weed the duds out.
Stunning, all mine just turn a pale pink!!!! I bought a great one from crocus earlier in the year think it was a William Guinness but it had triple flowers!will its in a pot so will see what happens next year as it was v stunted ( it was only .75p per plug!) hopefully I can have some more colourful ones in the garden!! They do spread like mad though but this also probably has something to do with my toddler pulling the flower spikes off and shaking them over the beds cause " they go chitt chitt mummy!!"
I've germinated a large selection from Touchwood this year, might have over-done it a bit.
A. viridiflora produces some interesting results. It's not a robust plant like the A. vulgaris but has a strong influence on crosses with that and canadensis and that other yellow/red one who's name escapes me for the moment.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Nut,did you sow in spring or autumn.? I don't know whether to sow some now for better germination
I sowed the bought seed at the beginning of january this year fb. In the cold GH. This was on the advice of Carrie Thomas at Touchwood.
I always sow my own when it's ripe though. It germinates very quickly and the plants are big enough to go through winter without protection. Bought seed sown in autumn sometimes germinates very quickly and you're left with babies to see through the winter.
You could try some of each and do a controlled experiment
In the sticks near Peterborough
Oh good nutcutlet - I've just collected my own seeds and was wondering whether to sow now. I've also collected some tree lupin seeds (lots in the wild here in Suffolk), so guess I'll sow those too.