Cameo Series Blue & White Columbine
Aquilegia flabellata 'Cameo Series Blue & White'
A favorite for late spring color...nodding two-tone flowers of blue and white. Blooms are long lasting. Perfect for borders or mass planting. Perennial.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | a-kwi-LEE-jee-a fla-bel-AH-tuh |
| Key feature: | Compact Habit |
| Plant type: | Perennial |
| Garden style: | Cottage |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Herbaceous |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 3 - 7 |
| Light needs: | Full to partial shade |
| Water Needs: | Needs wet or constantly moist soil. |
| Average landscape size: | Moderate growing 6 in. tall, 1 ft. wide. |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Growth habit: | Compact |
| Flower attribute: | Showy Flowers |
| Special features: | Attracts Birds, Attracts Hummingbirds |
| Landscape uses: | Firescaping/Fire Wise, Rock Garden, Woodland Garden |
| Flower color: | Blue |
| Blooms: | Early spring |
| Foliage color: | Gray-green |
| Item no.: | 0272 |
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Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep extentsive root system. Cut back hard and feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. Trim off dead flowers to encourage reblooming.
Design Ideas
Columbines are wonderfully versatile and fit into virtually any kind of garden. Their origins in the western woodlands make them perfect for semishaded conditions beneath native tree canopies as well as under shade and street trees. Adaptation to wild garden settings and compatibility of the hybrids with natives adapts well to informal naturalistic settings. Bright new colors are equally at home in cottage and country gardens. For small spaces and minimal yards these flowers offer a lot, both their delicate flowers and foliage along with the remarkably wiry stems, all best appreciated at close range.
Companion Plants
Colubines blend beautifully with Vesuvius Coral Bells, (Heuchera x 'Vesuvius'), Stop Light Foamy Bells, (xHeucherella 'Stop Light'), Firewitch Cheddar Pink, (Dianthus gratianopolitanus 'Firewitch'), Farmington New York Aster, (Aster novi-belgii 'Baldco') and Sunshine Selections Lenten Rose, (Helleborus x hybrida 'Sunshine Selections').
History
This large genus of perennials is native to the North Temperate zones including a large percentage from North America. Modern hybrids are traced back to two species: A. caerrulea, a native of the Rocky Mountains and A. chrysantha native further south and ranging into Texas. But this species is unique, derived from Japan where it is known as the Japanese fan columbine.
Lore
Columbine has always been associated with doves, known as columba in Latin, and so became a symbol of the Holy Spirit in Medieval Europe.
A favorite for late spring color...nodding two-tone flowers of blue and white. Blooms are long lasting. Perfect for borders or mass planting. Perennial.
Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep extentsive root system. Cut back hard and feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. Trim off dead flowers to encourage reblooming.
Design Ideas
Columbines are wonderfully versatile and fit into virtually any kind of garden. Their origins in the western woodlands make them perfect for semishaded conditions beneath native tree canopies as well as under shade and street trees. Adaptation to wild garden settings and compatibility of the hybrids with natives adapts well to informal naturalistic settings. Bright new colors are equally at home in cottage and country gardens. For small spaces and minimal yards these flowers offer a lot, both their delicate flowers and foliage along with the remarkably wiry stems, all best appreciated at close range.
Companion Plants
Colubines blend beautifully with Vesuvius Coral Bells, (Heuchera x 'Vesuvius'), Stop Light Foamy Bells, (xHeucherella 'Stop Light'), Firewitch Cheddar Pink, (Dianthus gratianopolitanus 'Firewitch'), Farmington New York Aster, (Aster novi-belgii 'Baldco') and Sunshine Selections Lenten Rose, (Helleborus x hybrida 'Sunshine Selections').
History
This large genus of perennials is native to the North Temperate zones including a large percentage from North America. Modern hybrids are traced back to two species: A. caerrulea, a native of the Rocky Mountains and A. chrysantha native further south and ranging into Texas. But this species is unique, derived from Japan where it is known as the Japanese fan columbine.
Lore
Columbine has always been associated with doves, known as columba in Latin, and so became a symbol of the Holy Spirit in Medieval Europe.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | a-kwi-LEE-jee-a fla-bel-AH-tuh |
| Key feature: | Compact Habit |
| Plant type: | Perennial |
| Garden style: | Cottage |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Herbaceous |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 3 - 7 |
| Light needs: | Full to partial shade |
| Water Needs: | Needs wet or constantly moist soil. |
| Average landscape size: | Moderate growing 6 in. tall, 1 ft. wide. |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Growth habit: | Compact |
| Flower attribute: | Showy Flowers |
| Special features: | Attracts Birds, Attracts Hummingbirds |
| Landscape uses: | Firescaping/Fire Wise, Rock Garden, Woodland Garden |
| Flower color: | Blue |
| Blooms: | Early spring |
| Foliage color: | Gray-green |
| Item no.: | 0272 |
