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Columbine, Blue Star Seeds
Aquilegia caerulea
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Elevate your garden with our Columbine, Blue Star Seeds.
These columbine seeds produce beautiful, deep blue, star-shaped flowers in your garden. Long stemmed, pastel blue and white flowers with attractive mounds of airy, fern-like foliage add a touch of elegance to any garden. Perfect for beds, borders, rock gardens, and as cut flowers!
- SKU: 143526
- Common Name: Columbine | Granny's Bonnet
- Botanical Name: Aquilegia caerulea
Growing Information
Safe
for Bees
Good For Pollinators
Grows
Best In:
Partial Shade
Days to
Germination:
30 - 50 days
Water
Needs:
Average 2.5-5 cm (1-2") per week
Growing Height:
60-75 cm (24-30")
Key Features
- Plant Type: Flower
- Plant Lifecycle: Perennial (returns every year)
- Fill Weight (grams): 100 mg
- Approximate Seed Count: 50-60
- Characteristics: Low maintenance | Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds | Cutting flower
- Planting Method: Start Indoors
- Color: Blue | White
- Water Needs: Average 2.5-5 cm (1-2") per week
- Hardiness Zone(s): 4 to 9
- Harvest/Bloom Season: May to June
- Landscape Use: Border / Edge Planting
- Growth Habit: Clump forming
- Resistance: Deer|Rabbit
- Tolerance: Drought once established
Instructions
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Growing Instructions:
- Planting Depth: 6 mm (1/4")
- Seed Spacing: 1.3 cm (1/2")
- Plant Spacing: 25 cm (10")
- Instructions for Nutrient Care: Feed plants SUPERthrive once per week. Mix 1.2 ml (1/4 tsp) per 4L (1 gallon) of water in a watering can and apply solution to the base of the plants.
Start Columbine seeds indoors 6-8 weeks before the last frost in your area. Follow the seed depth and spacing guidelines indicated below. Once all danger of frost has passed, seedlings should be hardened off before planting into their growing location. Seedlings should be transplanted according to the plant spacing directions below. Pick a location sheltered from the wind and receives at least 6 hours of sun per day. Regularly monitor your plants and ensure that the soil remains moist, but not soggy while they establish themselves in their new environment.
Click here to read more information on planning and planting a garden.
Suggestions
Growing Suggestions:
- Columbine plants aren't too particular about soil as long it's well-draining and not too dry.
- Regularly removing spent flowers, known as deadheading will promote continuous blooming and encourage the growth of fresh buds. This practice can extend the flowering period as long as 6 weeks into midsummer.
- Harvest flowers for indoor arrangements when they are half open.. Click here to learn more about harvesting flowers.
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