Columbine from the Songbird Series named Robin #5
by J McCombie
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Columbine from the Songbird Series named Robin #5
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J McCombie
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This piece has been featured in the FAA Group, "Flower On Green".
The Songbird Columbine Collection is comprised of bushy columbines that grow roughly two feet tall and wide with upward facing flowers that are all multi-dimensional and multi-colored. The large 3 1/2" - 4" eye-catching flowers of columbine in the Songbird Series are kaleidoscopic and the plants are sturdy and vigorous. These hybrids are derived from the McKana Group and Mrs. Scott-Elliot hybrids and were bred by Charles Weddle of Weddle Native Plants, Palisade, Colorado. Dwarf hybrid blooms the first year from seed. Blend of yellow, white, blue and rose/white, blue/white, lavender/white bicolours. Each colour combination has it's own name of a particular Songbird. Perennial zones 3-9. The uniquely shaped flowers add a graceful air to the perennial garden. Equally suited for containers, columbines will thrive in a moist, well-drained soil. Their delicate flowers can be cut for arrangements but only last a day.
"Bluebird": Light Lavender to Sky Blue sepals and spurs/White petals,Yellow stamen; "Blue Jay": Dark Blue/White; "Bunting": Dashing mauve blue sepals and spurs/ white petals, topped with lemon yellow stamens; "Dove": White/White with yellow eyes; "Goldfinch": Pastel Golden Yellow; "Lavender and White" or "Nuthatch": Lavender/White; "Red Wing" or "Cardinal", an award winning variety: Cardinal Red Spurs/sepals topped with White to pink peals; "Robin": Dusty Rose Sepals and spurs/White to soft pink petals; "Nightingale" or "Skylark" is the traditional violet variety: Purple/Peach and Purple
Like other hybrid columbines, these are hardy clump-forming perennials that grow from small slender woody rhizomes (underground lateral stems). This perennial offers clusters of gray-green scalloped leaves that appear along slender three-parted branches.
The intricate flowers are what make these plants so special. The big blooms have five large outer petals/sepals that splay outwards and five long tubular spurred inner petals that flare at the mouth. These are either all cream or bicolored in combinations of cream and red, purple, yellow. The many flower buds open at different times, prolonging bloom from late spring into summer.
Enjoy these colorful columbine in any partially shaded border. Their delicate flowers can be cut for arrangements but only last a day.
Columbines are often recognized as a wildflower growing in the northern part of the country or Rockies where they naturally occur. And while Songbird Columbines are indeed brethren of those wildflowers, their exceptional breed has solved all of the problems that would generally occur with most columbines. The Songbirds will sing their sweet blooms for six to eight weeks, nearly three times the duration of most aquilegia. Songbird Columbine Collection is comprised of bushy columbines that grow roughly two feet tall and wide with upward facing flowers that are all multi-dimensional and multi-colored – a few of the reasons why they’re a perfect flower.
The genus name Aquilegia is derived from the Latin word for eagle (aquila), because of the shape of the flower petals, which are said to resemble an eagle's claw. The common name "columbine" comes from the Latin for "dove", due to the resemblance of the inverted flower to five doves clustered together. The leaves of this plant are compound and the flowers contain five sepals, five petals and five pistils. The fruit is a follicle which holds many seeds and is formed at the end of the pistils. Underneath the flower are spurs which contain nectar, mainly consumed by long-beaked birds such as hummingbirds.
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