Aquilegia Songbird Series Mixed

A colourful mixture for spring and summer. The flowers bloom spring to summer and the blooms are beautiful in 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, as they begin growing in early spring.

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.

Aquilegias are suitable for growing in a lightly shaded border, massed plantings or in large containers. Keep good air flow around the plants to avoid powdery mildew and it's a good idea to keep an eye out for aphids.

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