The
columbines are blooming now and I'm braving the blowing fluff from the cottonwood trees to take photograph them. Sneeze, sneeze, sniff...
I started several of these
Potentilla x "Helen Jane" two years ago. They have an intense raspberry-pink flower. In good soil and full sun, the largest plant has gotten about 90 cm wide by 50 cm tall. It is not a compact plant, being rather open, but not quite "sprawling".
This is the neighbour's dock across the street. I'm assuming the grandkid's bicycles are destined for a splash in Lac La Ronge.
Here are the
three sandcherries we planted two years ago. My grand plan is to facilitate cross-pollination between all the cherry trees/shrubs in the yard: Nanking cherry (
Prunus tomentosa), Pincherry (
Prunus pensylvanica) ,
"Carmine Jewel" dwarf sour cherry and sandcherry (
Prunus x cistena).
The dwarf sour cherry apparently can self-pollinate, but I understand that the other trees all have better yields when cross-pollinated. I'm not sure if the Nanking cherries are going to make it this year though, as they haven't leafed out yet! Good grief!
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Love the pictures. What columbine varieties do you grow?
Thanks! I have had a red and white Aquilegia x caerulea "Coral Star", and an "Origami Blue and White" and I believe my tall pink double-flowered one is an Aquilegia vulgaris "Nora Barlow". The rest are unknowns. Altogether though, the columbines cross and self-seed and sometimes come from the garden center without labels. I have yet to get an alpine aquilegia or the variegated foliage types. I hope the songbird series seedlings will be nice.
I stumbled across a link to our site from another gardening site, and I've been reading for a couple of weeks now. I keep coming back to this entry because I love the coral star columbine. In that photo anyway, it appears to be such a pretty shade. I have blue & white, pure white, and Nora Barlow, but nothing quite like that. It's lovely.
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