Aquilegia - Beautiful May flowers

These pretty flowers also known as Columbine 'William Guiness' have self seeded around my garden, Aquilegia come in many colours, here we have pink, cream, blue and blue with cream, the bees just love them.
Aquilegia are clump-forming herbaceous perennials with long-stalked, ternately divided basal leaves and erect, leafy stems bearing bell-shaped flowers with spreading, coloured sepals and petals with spurs, on branched stems

Grow in fertile, moist but well-drained soil in full sun or partial shade


Propagate by seed sown in pots in a cold frame as soon as seed is ripe or in spring. It can also be propagated by division in spring but the plant will be slow to recover

Suggested planting locations and garden types
Flower borders and beds Low Maintenance Underplanting of Roses and Shrubs City & Courtyard Gardens Cottage & Informal Garden

How to care
Pruning
Cut back foliage affected by fungal diseases

Pests
Can get aphids, leaf-mining flies and sawflies

Diseases
May be infected by powdery mildews

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