Dense clouds of puckered deepest blue and white flowers open over a long season, especially if plants are dead-headed. This is one of the most distinctive and best-known of the old fashioned forms and was rescued from obscurity here. ... Learn More

The distilled essence from our beds of Aquilegia 'Alchemists Mix'. We have separated out the most different and impressive of the dwarf golden and variegated leaf forms, some of which have pom-pom flowers and are fragrant. These utterly new plants are definitely the pot of gold at the end of this line of breeding. ... Learn More

Seeds collected from our 'bizarre aquilegia' and 'unusual oddities' beds in the trial grounds, including some new very dwarf variegated and coloured foliage forms. No-one has ever seen plants like some of these before, so do our further trialling for us. Let us know if anything amazing turns up! ... Learn More

This is the true alpine columbine which grows on Europe's high meadows and mountain slopes. Large navy blue flowers on dividing strong stems able to stand the strong winds appear in May, June and July. ... Learn More

Disproportionately-large, pure white flowers appear in profusion on numerous stems in late spring on this scarce form of this vigorous plant. These plants are quite promiscuous, and assisted by bees, will happily hybridise with any other aquilegias growing in the vicinity. ... Learn More

Dark purple to black flowers with unusually prominent yellow stamens open from May to August. This lovely, long-lived, true alpine species, grows in high rocky places, sometimes in limestone areas, but makes a superb garden plant. ... Learn More

One of the very smallest and rarest of this lovely group of plants, this tiny delight bears short stems carrying disproportionately large, ink-blue flowers, above prostate, miniature, rubbery, blue-grey leaves. ... Learn More

The sprays of deeply doubled, darkest purple flowers quite amazingly become invisible any time after dusk here! As black as you can get in aquilegias, or any flower for that matter. ... Learn More

Compact heads of semi-doubled and single flowers open en-masse in early spring. These dark flowers make an impressive impact when grown with lighter coloured flowers. They will gently self-seed if allowed making impressive drifts. ... Learn More

This little gem is almost certainly the tiniest "growable" aquilegia in the world. Proportionately large blue and white spurred flowers, at least one inch wide, grow on thin delicate stems, over a tiny rosette of delicate blue-green maidenhair leaves. This tiny treasure is a vigorous, easy-to-grow and stable hybrid of the two legendary and more-difficult-to grow plants, Aquilegia jonesii and Aquilegia saximontana. ... Learn More

Large deep blue flowers open on long stems above strong clumps of strong green maiden-hair foliage. This selection from Pink Flamingo is very vigorous and will happily self-seed making attractive drifts wherever it is allowed. ... Learn More

This dwarf plant features bi-coloured flowers of dusky plum-purple and soft creamy yellow, over a mound of ferny light-green foliage. Perfect for the rock garden, for the border's edge or even in containers and troughs. Columbines have been grown in gardens for centuries, and in warmer countries hummingbirds will often drop in to sip nectar from the flowers. ... Learn More

The nodding bi-coloured flowers of this striking plant consist of burgundy-brown skirts with creamy-yellow centres. This outstanding, very hardy and long-lived introduction was originally collected on Japan's Mount Konsai. Just a few seeds collected. ... Learn More

Selected here many years ago, sprays of icing pink pom-poms hover gracefully above the burnished, bright golden foliage. This lovely form looks fabulous as a massed planting and is completely trouble-free, improving yearly. ... Learn More

An elegant and beautiful plant carrying sprays of deep red-spurred, lemon-yellow flowers. The bright cloud of blooms atop a patch of these is an unforgettable sight. ... Learn More