OPINION: By late November, we have all enjoyed a month or so of the fantastical display of aquilegia, nodding their pretty heads above the green mounds of summer plants just getting into gear. This ...

Think of aquilegias and what springs to mind? Cottage garden favourites happily self-seeding in beds, borders and gaps in the paving, blooming from May to July without a care in the world. Granny’s ...

Chiamata anche ballerina o colombina, l’aquilegia si distingue con i suoi fiori, talmente eleganti da ricordare le orchidee. Estremamente delicati, questi presentano una forma a corno, uno sperone ...

I have just planted out half a dozen healthy specimens of Aquilegia vulgaris ‘Ruby Port’ into our Jewel Garden. These have, as the name suggests, a rich plum-coloured flower, multi-petalled with ...

The blue columbine, Aquilegia coerulea, has the distinction of being the state flower, perhaps because it is one of the most beautiful and striking in the mountains. The central male and female ...