Thursday 13 June 2013

Diana's Aquilegias

Last year I sowed some Aquilegia seeds kindly sent to me by Diana, whose blog is Kebun Malay-Kadazan Girls. She wouldn't tell me what colour they were, so I have had to be patient and find out for myself. It was worth the wait!




I had great difficulty in getting any photos of them that I was happy with. The stems of these plants are very slender, and the blooms blow about in the slightest breath of breeze - and it has been very windy here most of the time. Anyway, I think these photos demonstrate adequately the beautiful colours of these lovely flowers.


Recently I have developed a great interest in this plant variety, and am beginning to learn more about it. For instance, Sue, from Our Plot at Green Lane Allotments, recently wrote an informative blogpost explaining about the variability in flower colour of Aquilegias, and how seeds may develop into a plant which has flowers of a completely different colour to its parent. Now I understand why Diana wouldn't tell me what colour the ones she sent me would be!


Diana, I hope you are reading this. Thank you very much for those seeds!

STOP PRESS! (Late addition, just before heading off on holidays...)





10 comments:

  1. Malaysian's expression for these photo would sound like this; "Cantik!!". Cantik is beautiful in your language ;)

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  2. Very pretty aquilegia flowers indeed - and popular with the bees! Have a lovely trip.

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  3. Lovely photos, hope you have a great holiday.

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  4. The last photos are lovely - windy weather is definitely a challenge when trying to take photos! Happy holidays

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  5. These little flowers look absolutely precious, fantastic mix of colours and shapes of the petals, brilliantly cought on your photographs!

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  6. I love it that you've put a picture of YOU on the blog. Thank you.

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  7. Aquilegia are really fab this time of year; I like the colouring of yours.

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  8. I've got one which is a very similar colour in my garden. Breezy weather is a proper nuisance when you're trying to take photos of plants.

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  9. Lovely flower and great pictures :) never seen such a beautiful combination of colors on this flower until now.

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