Aquilegia 'Strawberry Ice Cream'

Aquilegia 'Strawberry Ice Cream'

Aquilegias are charming, old-fashioned cottage garden plant with bonnet-shaped flowers, often two-tone and with long graceful spurs. Flowering in early summer, they fill the seasonal gap between the last of the spring bulbs and the first of the summer flowers. Self-sown aquilegias look wonderful naturalised amongst shrubs and roses. However, the plants interbreed freely and seedlings rarely resemble the parents. To keep chosen varieties pure, prevent self-seeding by deadheading shortly after flowering.

Aquilegia 'Strawberry Ice Cream' bears lilac petals with white tips from May to July.