Plant ID Please

Brought these a couple of years ago and they look like Bluebells, I forgot to take a picture whilst they were in bloom.

Never noticed them before but they have just produced a load of seed heads which are black and loads to a pad (seems to have 4 - 5 seeds pods per flower head if that helps)

I done a quick search and they might be called AQUILEGIA but not 100% sure if that's correct.

Thanks for any help you can give

 

Yes you are correct intel it is undoubtedly an aquilegia

 

Seed heads look simliar to Bluebells to be fair, but you are right, Aquilegias.

Very poisonous seeds mind.

 

Hi, They will readily seed themselves where they or you can collect them and sow them in trays. They will not flower next year now, they would have had to be sown in the spring. They will flower the year after.

 

I know little about these but I have checked some seed sites and also another forum and it looks like we are just at the end of the window to sow these.

But my single plant has loads of seeds so it's worth giving it a go I guess, don't have anything to lose


Thanks for all the replys btw

 

it's amazing when you start looking, after I found out that these were called Aquilegias, I remembered that I brought a plant about a month ago from Columbia Road flower market, called Aquilegias Red Hobbit, these now have seed pods as well so just sowed them this morning, hopefully these will take without having to put them in the fridge first?

 

Just think what would happen if nature took care of seed sowing.

The seeds are there now, ripe and ready to fall to the ground.

So given the chance just follow what naturally happens.

Scatter your Aquilegia seeds now, where you want them, while they are very fresh .
Leave alone. Next year you will have more beautiful plants.

Some seeds germinate only after a cold winter, which is why some seeds are put with sand in a fridge, to mimic the same conditions. Not all seeds need this!

 

Thanks for all the replys.............If anyone is interested there are a couple of
good threads on these plants

http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/growing-aquilegias.34656/

http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/...-by-aquilegias-especially-doubles-with-yellow.