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Aquilegia 'Cap de Rositier' |
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I'm not sure if this is a named cultivar of common columbine or a hybrid. It came to us as seed from the HPS/MAG seed exchange, collected from the Phildelphia-area garden of Charles Cresson. He traces its origins back to "Malcolm Whipple's Long Island garden" in the early 1980s. I've not been able to find other references to this variety online.
Whatever its heritage, this is a pretty little columbine. Like Nora Barlow types, this one has double flowers - but in the finer details, this is a more refined plant. Even though I list the color as "pink", that's just the overall impression from a distance. in reality, the flowers are cream-colored, with rose streaking along part of each petal. The flowers overall are very regularly shaped, almost like little dangling balls. Requires up-close inspection for the full effect. So far, it has reliably come true from seed I collected from our garden's plants – even though we grow plenty of other columbines.
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. One or more images of this plant are included in my stock photo catalog About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| TJ | May 25, 2008 | great pictures - you include foliage in your pics which is something other websites don't always do. |
| Mandy Taylor | Jun 19, 2008 | I love Aquilegia, and have not come accross one like this, it is very beautiful and I am going to try to find it, I really enjoy your web site as you provide much more information than most, which as a horticulture student helps immensly, thanks! |
- Seed from HPS/MAG '05/06 exchange. Pot outside 2/15/05; seedings in May of '06
- Seed from '07 garden. Baggy 35F (3w) - 70F (12d) - 70F with light (5w; no G)
- Seed from '08 garden. Baggy 65F (73%G, 13-20d)
- Seed from '09 garden. Baggy 70F (40%G, 9-18d)
- Seed from '09 garden. Baggy 70F (24%G, 11-28d)
- Seed from '12 garden. Baggy 70F (no G, 30d)
Easy, but loses viability slowly over a number of years.
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