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FREE: Organic ✽ CANADIAN COLUMBINE ✽ 15 Seeds ✽ Native Hummingbird Plant

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The listing, Organic ✽ CANADIAN COLUMBINE ✽ 15 Seeds ✽ Native Hummingbird Plant has ended.

Be ready for the HUMMINGBIRDS! Here is a chance to grow your own columbine VERY EASY! These are seeds from my magnificant, tall Canadian Columbine plant. These are a wonderful back-of-the-border garden perennials for sun or part shade. They are large and the 1st plant in my spring garden to welcome the migrating hummingbirds. The flowers have beautiful, medium spurs of red, with yellow sepals. They nod down-ward above sturdy, lacey foliage. Columbine grows in almost any soil. They are reliable bloomers, and naturalize well by self-seeding. Dead-head for prolonged blooming. Very little care is needed for these tall beauties and they are very hardy. I believe the "strong shall survive" in my garden. You will appreciate my motto!

Family: Ranunculaceae
Genus: Aquilegia
Species: canadensis
Category:
Perennials

Height:
12-18 in. (30-45 cm)

Spacing:
9-12 in. (22-30 cm)

Hardiness:
USDA Zone 3a: to -39.9 °C (-40 °F)
to USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 °C (15 °F)

Sun Exposure:
Full Sun
Sun to Partial Shade

This Auction: You will be receiving 15 seeds from my
garden. They will be sent First Class mail. I am happy to say that my seeds tested 99-100% germination within 2 weeks at a temp of 65°F in the spring of 2012. Excellent for beginners!

Propagation Method: From seed, sow seeds indoors 6 weeks before last spring frost. Sow 3-5 seeds per pot. NOTE* Do NOT cover these with soil, as they need sunlight or artificial light to germinate. About 10 days before the last spring frost, begin hardening the plants to the outdoors. Transplant your plants to a sunny location.

Questions & Comments

in the norteast it is called honeysuckle

Nov 9th, 2012 at 7:21:55 PM PST by

That is funny. Honeysuckle is something entirely different here, although loved by the hummingbirds as well. A plant may have a hundred nicknames, but all have only 1 latin first and last name. If you ever question what you are actually looking for, always find out the plant's latin name. :)

Nov 10th, 2012 at 8:02:53 AM PST by

That's a good point! I have to keep that in mind! Iv many times gotten worried about the different names- same plant/ same name-different plant issue while searching ,learning & harvesting wild & domestic herbs & trees. ( omg! Trees have got to be some of the worst for that! ...& herbs!!! Lol!!!) but the Latin names - I never thought about looking those up! Your sure about the fact that they are ALWAYS true to the Latin name right?! (though I imagine for science purposes they HAVE to be!) this will be extremely helpful! I get nervous when it comes to making teas & herbal remedies when the names do that! =•)

Nov 11th, 2012 at 4:36:21 AM PST by

Scientist or botanists, whoever they are, have changed the names before. They even disagree sometime. So nothing is 100%, but pretty close. You should always know the latin name. I make herbal teas & remedies. That is my home business. There are plants that have the same first name and look the same. The latin last name is the difference between edible and poisonous for some plants. Wonderberries for example.

Nov 11th, 2012 at 6:17:01 AM PST by

Just wondering... Isn't the honey suckle yellow/gold to orangish in color? That's what always comes to mind when I think of them.. Although they are shaped very similar to the wild columbines. Or am I mistaken? Thanx! =•) I never can learn enough so I sometimes ask to many questions! Lol!

Nov 11th, 2012 at 4:41:14 AM PST by

I know of 2 types of honeysuckle, vines and bushes. The bushes are native here and have little flowers. They can be pink, white, yellow... I have 2 honeysuckle vines. The blooms are red and white on one, and pink and yellow on the other.

Nov 11th, 2012 at 6:05:52 AM PST by

Fanned an watching

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