Columns of column-bine give way to clouds of Iris

Iris Germanica ( photo / image / picture from Cayuga Morning's Garden )






Iris ( photo / image / picture from Cayuga Morning's Garden )






Yet another photo of the Iris bed ( photo / image / picture from Cayuga Morning's Garden )






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A lot of Columbine standing up and saying, 'Here we are." Lovely as a group.

Jerry

 

Those are gorgeous! Are they McKenna's Giants?

 

You know Cayuga, I have a special place in my gardening heart for this plant. They are one of the plants that I let self-sow where it will.
One gets to see such interesting mixes this way.

I find the flower construction especially attractive and almost exotic. Bees and bumble bees are quite mad about these as well.

Yours look triumphantly gorgeous standing where you have them.

Well done, you!

 

Thanks all. Leaving them to self sow is definitely the way to go. This batch actually started out as 1 purple columbine (what kind I don't know), & I have let them self sow from that one. I have tended to weed out most of the pale pink ones--too drab.

I have some rosy ones sprinkled through the garden. I plan to group them together somewhere....some day!

I do love the flowering structure of columbines. They remind me of a candelabra.

 

Beautiful!! Columbines remind me of my mom, don't know why :-o Yours are taller than mine. I have lots of new babies this year and am excited to see what color they are My senior year in high school we had a picnic at Rifle Gap Reservoir in Colorado. The ditches and fields were overflowing with the biggest, prettiest columbines you have ever seen~all wild and natural. I will never forget that as long as I live!

p.s. they blend beautifully with your iris!

 

Thanks Stratsmom...blending with the iris was actually part of the plan, but of course the columbine are always a bit ahead of the iris.

We have wild columbine in the NE, but ours are red with an inner part that is yellow. I imagine the ones in Colorado are pale blue? I bought some of the wild Colorado seeds this year to sow, but have been unsuccessful with them thus far. I know what you mean though, they are lovely.

 

Very pretty!
Columbines are one of my fave spring bloomers. Ive got a few that I just planted 2 days ago in my woodland garden Im creating. Ill post pics eventually Ive got dark pink, pale pink, white and a few dark purple. The white and purple are in front of the house though, I may dig them up and relocate them after blooming I want more colors O_O

 

Jen, you will be surprised by how many colors you come up with!! They cross pollinate for some interesting combos

 

What a lovely setting. What a wonderful garden! Beautiful piece of property......

Three thumbs up to you!!!!!!!!

 

Thanks Barb & Jen. I have some rosy ones too. If I get a chance, I'll take a photo & post it too.

If anyone wants seeds, I can collect & mail them, ??maybe mid summer? I don't remember when the seed ripens.

 

Beautiful setting for those beauties,..such a rewarding plant every year some new colour appears in my garden,..my top one last year was the Nora Barlow.

 

Glad you like colunbines too, Philip. I have always liked the look of Nora Barlow, just never have grown it.

 

Hurray for the Columbine! This year they feature in my garden for the first time, so more than likely they are here to stay. (and hopefully they'll mutate )

They highlighted the Columbine in this year's Chelsea Flower Show, there is a very sweet story to go with this beautiful flower that I'd never heard before.
The name Columbine comes from the Latin word for dove, columba, and when you look closely at the flowers, you can see 5 little doves with their heads pointing towards each other & their wings slightly spread. So cute!