Columbines

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Colorful Curious Columbines! Colorful, whimsical jester hats, the curious Columbine is a gorgeous spring addition to the landscape! Members of the Buttercup family, and also known as known as Granny's Bonnet, these lovely perennials rarely get too large or cumbersome! These delicate-looking plants are actually hardy native wildflowers found rambling throughout the Northern Hemisphere! The Columbine is known for its five-sectioned spur-petalled flowers surrounding a central, cup-shaped corolla. Often two-tone and look like Fairy hats! The backs of each curled horn-shaped petal have a cute backward-extending spur that makes them irresistible to kids! The flower's stamens are attractive, and their centers sometimes take on a honeycomb look. Nature Hills offers a wide variety of these adorable blossoms in single and double forms, in reds to wine, pinks to purple, blues, lavenders, yellow, and bi-colors! Columbine's lovely flowers appear in late spring to early summer. Each spring, the rounded, deeply lobed, notched, and delicate compound leaves are in both soft-green and blue-green hues. Emerging from a basal rosette and becoming lush green clumps that are quickly followed by the unique blooms! Easy-Care Columbines Doing best in sunny areas that have some relief from the worst of the afternoon sun, Columbines also handle partial shade wonderfully! Provide a well-drained, moist, and organically-rich site and a 3-4 inch layer of mulch around the outskirts of their rosette to keep the roots cool and leaves clean from mud splashing on them from rain. Water new plants regularly, as well as plants in hotter climates. They can die back in the summer when the going gets tough and wait for cooler days. But once established, Columbines can be rather drought-tolerant. If you deadhead the blooms as soon as they fade, you may enjoy some rebloom a bit later in the season too! If you don't mind, let them self-seed and naturalize. (Please note that the seedlings may not exhibit the sam