Aquilegia Songbird Bunting

Dashing mauve blue sepals and spurs teamed with white petals, all topped with lemon yellow stamens. The restrained shades are simply stunning. The flowers bloom spring to summer and are great for vases.

The Aquilegia Song Bird Series are F1 hybrids* with larger, upward facing flowers with long spurs and more compact foliage than the common forms. The blooms average 7-8cm across. The Aquilegia Songbird Series holds the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit for quality garden plants.

Aquilegias are a cottage garden essential with sweet flowers and delightfully lacy foliage. Aquilegia's elegant, fern like leaves are a rare blue-green colour and are a beautiful foil for the fading spring flowering bulbs.

Aquilegias thrive in light to moderate shade, though; with sufficient moisture will tolerate full sun. Aquilegia should be planted in moist, well drained, humus rich soil.

After the initial flowering has finished, you can cut the stems back to the basal foliage and fertilise for a second flush of flowers. You can choose to leave the last flowers of the season to form seed heads for future generations of plants. Seedlings are unlikely to flower true to type as they hybridise easily

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