In season: aquilegia
Cottage garden
Many flowers are described as cottage garden classics, but few have as solid a claim to this status as Aquilegia vulgaris, or columbine or Granny’s bonnet as it is variously known. Recorded growing in domestic garden settings in writings such as John Gerard’s Herball (1595), and in art, A. vulgaris is our native columbine, but there are in fact 80 species of this herbaceous perennial.
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Photograph by Michelle Garrett
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