Aquilegia has unusually shaped flowers. They open in a lush colored cap over the shrub when there is a shortage of other lushly blooming plants in the garden.
Aquilegia is in the Buttercup family. Breeders liked this plant so much that they bred a large number of ornamental varieties with different colors.
There are 102 species recorded in the genus Aquilegia. Thanks to this, it is possible to create a fabulous flower garden on the garden plot.
Knowing the main secrets of care, it will not be difficult to achieve constant lush flowering of aquilegia.
Aquilegia is a herbaceous plant. It has a rhizome consisting of cord-like sprouts. The height of the flowering plant is about 50-70 cm.
One drooping flower blooms at the end of each shoot. There can be 10-12 of them on the plant. The buds of aquilegia open one by one from June. Each flower of an aquilegia lives for a week and then the next one replaces it.