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Posted by Hawthorn_Cottage WS15 4NH (My Page) on Sat, May 21, 05 at 11:28
| Does anyone grow,'Aquilegia chrysantha',a lovely lemon one, with long spurs, if the photo is anything to go on.lt is described as tall, but how high will it grow, my garden is very exposed, and l wouldn't want anything extremely tall,also how black, is'Black Barlow', if it's only dark purple, l may not bother buying it. |
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| All "black" flowers are really dark purple, some darker than others. Only you can decide if it is dark enough to satisfy you. A. chrysantha is 2'-3' high, or up to a metre if you like. But that is just the flower stalks. Yes, they will blow over sometimes. The rest of the plant is a low rosette of leaves. |
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- Posted by DeeDs1 the far SWUK-9 (My Page) on
Sat, May 21, 05 at 17:57
| Yes I grow it, and it's a beauty. My garden is quite exposed too, on top of a hill and very windy, and it gets to about 3' maximim. I have seen some very dark purple 'Black Barlow' but it is quite variable and can be anything from darkish blue to a very dark purple. |
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| Here too - a lot of wind - but the aquilegias don't mind it at all. The chrysantha I have is only in its first year of flowering - but it's not too tall. |
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| Thankyou to all of you, who replied to my query,l shall now buy a,'Chrysantha', and l do agree, that the colour does vary in the bought,named, plants.The,'Black Barlow', l saw at a nursery, was just purple, and l do not have room for too many of the same colour,l already have a very dark purple vulgaris,and my own,'Woodside variegated',from seed, has the darkest purple flowers, whereas a bought one, is a rather wishy-washy lavender. |
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| I think the degree of 'blackness' is also dependent on contrast with other colours. For example, I have Aquilegia 'Magpie' (syn. 'William Guinness' - seed from Plants of Distinction) and the flowers are a dark purple with a purplish-white edging. It's the contrast of the two shades that makes the flowers appear convincingly black and white. |
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