This is my first aquilegia flower of the year. Undoubtedly there have been some that I missed along the way. I was probably admiring foals, sending WM’s into water butts, falling into nettles, eating my sandwiches, chitty chatting, digging, fighting ground elder, dancing or perhaps even day-dreaming. Either way today’s columbine was looking marvellous, as Mr K* nearly said, it is an exceedingly good flower.
*For those of you not brought up on Mr Kipling’s Viennese whirls, cherry bakewells and french fancies then I must explain. Mr K was/is a manufacturer of all things sweet, delicious and decidedly bad for you and his slogan is/was “Mr Kipling makes exceedingly good cakes”. And he does/did!
Off The Edge Gardening 
Like you I always look forward to the Aquilegia….I think my first one is going to be one I grew from Lucy’s seed, she grows the tallest largest yellow one I’ve ever seen, so I had to pinch seed. Must take picture.
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Looking forward to seeing that! Perhaps we could swap a few seed later in the year?
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As for Mr K… Mr Malc was bought up on iced fancies, but then back in those days he was a bit bigger. That’s before I started to feed him.
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I send you seed and Mr Malc and iced fancy!
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They always say a first love is always the best. This one is sweetly demure.
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What a lovely word “demure” and that it is!
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What a beautiful striking purple blossom with all that gorgeous hot pink in the background. Wonderful. 🙂
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Thank you, it did shout out “photograph” very loudly!
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Great detail. A perfect fresh flower … and I do love the purple ones
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Thank you, they are wonderful aren’t they?!
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Congratulations on the first aquilegia! What is that fabulous riot of jazzy pink in the background?
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It is an azalea, the aquilegia is a self-sown growing through it, such good taste!
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Great colour, and to many more!
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Lovely aquilegia and it looks great with the
Azalea… I’ve spotted some self seeded ones in my garden so I’m looking forward to seeing what theyre like 🙂
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That is the joy of the self seeded ones, isn’t it?
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Yep 🙂 theyre on of few plants that self seeds in my garden – working hard to improve the soil which is full of rubble 😦
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A really worthy job, everything starts and ends with the soil. Keep at it!!! 🙂
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It IS an exceedingly good flower and I have to agree with your other readers about the purple/pink combination. Wow!
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Thanks Mrs D, would make a good painting perhaps?
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Perhaps it would 🙂
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You forgot the Almond Slices. Mmmmm!
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Oh yes and they were nearly good for you because they contained nuts!
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Flowering well ahead of mine – they are getting there slowly!
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Yours will soon catch up! Have you been having frosts?
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Mr Kipling sounds like someone I’d have liked to know. 🙂
Aquilegias here are only foliage as yet.
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He is very famous here, well to my generation anyway. 🙂
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