Thursday 7 May 2015

7 May : Aquilegia

The aquilegias have burst into bloom all over the garden, intricate layers of curves and frills. Extremely elegant in shape and the most delicious shade of shell pinks, it is impossible not to love them but I do wish they would be more predictable. I have tried to move them and to sprinkle seeds but they just turn up capriciously where they want. I am not an obsessively controlling gardener but growing aquilegias is like herding cats.

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  1. My quest to establish aquilegiias in a garden that didn't seem to want them is now in the ascendant. Little crowds of people...William Guiness, Nora Barlow, Winky et al, all nodding their heads at each other.

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    1. I have a garden full of pink aquilegias and a single purple one which is growing exactly where I want to dig *gnashes teeth*

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  2. Under the pear tree amongst the forget-me-nots and irises - mystery aquilegiias. No idea where they've sprung from!
    Holly hocks I find equally strong minded - won't grow where you plant them; grow where they will.
    Liz

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    1. Oh no! I have just planted a number of hollyhocks - I will be very displeased if they are wayward.

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