Touchwood Aquilegia seed list


Aquilegia Mixes All seeds are £2 a packet, discounts for 6 packets or more
Black Magic Mix (from 22'mother plants)	All the 'blackest' ones: singles, doubles, clematis-flowered, 'Black Barlow', 'William Guiness'and it's double form, are all here. Spellbinding! NOTE FOR ALL MIXES: Resulting plants should not be labelled, for example, 'Touchwood Eventide'or even 'Eventide'as they will be a total mix, of some recognisable named cultivars together with un-named forms.
White Magic Mix (from 25 mother plants)	You've guessed it: all the white forms to enlighten your garden. Singles, clematis flowered, and all kinds of doubles including some very special ones. 'Magically'you can select all the white seedlings at first leaf stage, just discard any with any purple in the petioles, leaving just those with a whitish green stem. (Such selections may also be marbled colours, ie ones with white mixed in with the dominant colour)
Touchwood Elite Mix (from 50+ mother plants)	This is the mix you've always longed for, with seed selected from everything in the Touchwood collection, EXCEPT for single, plain pinks or purples (unless scented). Start your own collection!
Touchwood Supreme Mix	Anything and everything in this mix!
Starshine Mix (Stellata mix from 11 mother plants)	Do you know these unusual forms? The flower has become flattened and star-shaped or 'clematis-flowered' Many visitors cannot believe these are granny's bonnets! Many colours, singles and double clematis flowered.
Barlows Mix (from 8 mother plants )	Barlow forms are like spiky pompoms and are actually a full double stellata form. These, too, are ancient forms that have been cultivated for many centuries. Includes Nora, Blue, Black, Purple, Christa, and Rose Barlows
Aquilegia Denim & Ice ( Marbled Blue Mix ) (from 13 mother plants)	A selection of marbled or streaky blues and purples colours from Demin (light indigo) to Ice (hint of a tint of blue). Includes named varieties. Select seedlings with no purpleyness on leaf-stalks, ie just like white ones are.
Touchwood Blushes (from 40+ mother plants)	All the pinks, from the palest pearls to the richest crimsons and rubies are all here.Includes singles, all sorts of doubles, bicolours, clematis-flowered, 'Nora Barlow'and 'Rose Barlow'.
Touchwood Eventide (from 35 mother plants)	Here we have the blues and purples: the colours of dusk and evening.Singles, varied doubles, bicolours, clematis-flowered and Barlow types. Unbelievable variety …and some scented ones too!
Touchwood Fancies (from 35+ mother plants)	All the many and varied double forms, from white to black, through pinks, clarets, purples and bicoloureds. Pleated, frilly, clematis-flowered, Barlows, feather-dusters. Oh, and variegated foliage ones! Special and spectacular! Do you know when I was a little girl I used to pull the flowers off some of the Granny's Bonnets and stand them up on the grass-suspended over a crossed stick and pretend that they were ladies at a dance, I would imagine that they came alive at night. They were always dead by the next day, but I spent many happy hours. I never had pom pom ones though - I would have been thrilled with those. I will make an order soon. Our seasons are reversed here obviously - do I sow in spring or autumn? I am so happy to have found you! 'Happy gardening, Ellen Rowatt, Australia.
~Aquilegia DOUBLES Mix	Let's try another mix of doubles from another supplier, unfortunately they had no photo. New for 2013
Touchwood 'Crinoline Ladies' Pompoms mix from 6 parents	These cultivars have been grown in cottage gardens for centuries. The best are bicoloured, tight round pompoms. I've also included very full doubles that are pompom shaped when viewed 'face-on'. Aquilegia flowers have 5 petals. Double forms have 10 around the flower in a circle (whorl), and more whorls of 10 within those. Pompom forms may have 10 x 10 petals, yes, 100 petals instead of 5! The photo, left, shows how these petals are stacked one-inside-the-other so each spur nestles in the spur of another. New for 2013 Sold out 2013
~ 'Pom-Poms Mixed' from Plant World.	Aquilegia seeds & pic from Plant World. I've had a lot of pom-poms from this mix in the past. New for 2013
Touchwood Duets (from 55 mother plants)	A gorgeous mix of all my many bicoloured flowers. Singles and doubles, beautiful and impressive. Also now available as seeds from just singles (Delightful Duos) or doubles (Double Delights), see 2 entries below.
'Delightful Duos' Mix (from 25 mother plants)	Single forms with dramatic bicoloured flowers. Note, if you want bicoloured long spurred flowers, choose McKana or Dragonfly Mixes.
Touchwood 'Double Delights' (from 30 mother plants)	Aquilegia seeds from double flowers with two colours.
Touchwood Harmony Mix Yellow bicoloured mix (from 6 parents) New for 2013	These are unusual, they are the sorts of colours found in large, long-spurred aquilegias, but these are often only vulgaris-sized blooms. Some may hold their heads hanging like the vulgaris cultivars rather than the long-spurred ones, which face outwards. Yes, you've guessed, these are hybrids. Because of this, you'll be likely to get some very different and unusual offspring from this seed mix.
Long-Spurred Mix (from 35 mother plants)	McKanas, Dragonfly, coerulea hybrids, Songbird series etc. Usually these are bicoloured, having either white or yellows as the second colour. The yellow, of course, can be any shade from creamy to orangey.
Aquilegia Touchwood PHARAOH'S TREASURE Yellows mix from 17 parents New for 2013	What a great selection …from all types of yellow singles with a few doubles added for even greater effect. Most parents were long spurred Aquilegia chrysantha types including blushed yellow ones, some will be smaller flowered or even nodding blooms.
Touchwood Glimmers (from 35 mother plants)	A selection of all the pale colours (including white), which stand out so well in the garden. All sorts of flower forms and bicoloured ones.
Touchwood Riches (from 20 mother plants)	All the darkest, deepest, richest colours. From 'black' through ruby and claret and purple and indigo.
Touchwood Simplicity Mix (from 14 mother plants)	I thought I'd a comprehensive list of mixes …then a gentleman asked me for one from just the elegant, simple single flowers! So here it is! Also see long-spurred sorts, eg McKana and Dragonfly Mixes.
Touchwood Fragrant Mix (13 mother plants)	A mix of seed from the fragrant forms in my garden.
~Aquilegia ex 'Fragrant Fantasy' Sold out 2013	Seed & pic from Plant World. Let me quote what Ray Brown says on their site: A new and lovely range of columbines bred from some of the most fragrant species in cultivation. The perfumed flowers come in all shapes and sizes, from tight pom-poms to long-spurred singles and in a wide variety of colours. New for 2013
~Aquilegia 'Perfumed Garden'	Large, scented flowers. Photo and seed from Plant World. New for 2013
Touchwood Gold (from 16 mother plants)	Giving a long season of interest are these gold-splashed and golden leafed forms. Easily selected even at seed-leaf stage. Seed from a wide selection of flower colours and forms, each one will delight both you and your friends.
~Aquilegia Touchwood Liliput Lovelies! Dwark mix ex at least 11 types	I've finally got enough seed to offer to people wanting diminutive plants. These are from tiny up to 'Winky' & 'Spring Magic' heights (12"/30cms). Ideal for the rock garden, troughs, pots and the front of the border. Mainly species but with some dwarf hybrids. Includes A. pyrenaica discolor and flabellata of all sorts and occasional others.
~Aquilegia Biedermeier Mixed	That's different: upwardly facing flowers on this dwarf mix. No need to tip this chins of these beauties, they gaze up adoringly at you gazing down adoringly on them. Oh for goodness sake Carrie, that is just too twee and sugary even for you. Photo by Robert Höck.
~ Aquilegia coerulea hybrids	Huge yet delicately balanced flowers, many bicoloured types. Lovely long-spurs on these American hybrids. Aquilegia coerulea itself is a clear blue and white, far clearer than the blues found here in our British natives. It is the state flower of Colorado and can colour the countryside in swathes of dancing blue in the spring. Now that state is where Bob Nold lives. He has written the only book on Aquilegias (Columbines: ISBN 0-88192-588-8). No wonder! For those of you with the book - I love the no-nonsense guide to the 'mysteries of growing columbines' as revealed on p13.
~Aquilegia 'Dragonfly Hybrids'	LARGE flowers. American brightly-coloured hybrids that are a couple of feet in height rather than about three. Beautifully held flowers, so that they seem to dance and jitter on the plant. I 'm really pleased with mine …and others have said the same to me.
~Aquilegia McKana hybrids mix or choose McKana Giant hybrids	Loads and loads of colours in this large-flowered, long spurred mix. Yes, many more than shown in the photos. Brilliant!
~Aquilegia Rosina's Extra Specials Mix	Here's something different, from another keen gardener comes this collection. They are much larger packets of seeds as the viability is a little lower than mine as these are a year old. Rosina has an extraordinary aquilegia collection, and offers me all her 'left over' one year old seeds …BUT ONLY of her extra special forms. Includes golden, variegated leaved forms and a HUGE range of flower forms. Do have a go.
??? Touchwood Lottery Mix more generous amounts (from 15 parents) ???	Each year as I collect seeds from my National Collections I find that there are plants that have lost their labels. Oh dear what could they be? Up to now they've gone into the general mixes but what a waste of what could be extra-specials! Want to take a chance? There's bound to be winners hence I've called it the Touchwood Lottery Mix!	? ! ?
Aquilegia ex Spring Magic Mix (from 3 parents)	These 3 plants are growing in one large container. The photo captures them just about to burst into flower: one of the earliest in the garden.
~Aquilegia flabellata mix Sold out 2013	A. flabellata forms and hybrids (eg Mini Star and Cameo ranges) Be lucky and get unusual forms amongst them! These are short plants, very dainty and beautiful. Some will be exceedingly tiny indeed, rock garden delights, and most will be bicoloured with white petals and, most commonly, blue (or another colour) sepals.
Aquilegia pyrenaica mix includes subsp. discolor & hybrids Sold out 2013	Sturdy hybrids of the dwarf alpine often just known as A. discolor. Discolor means 2-colours so guess what you'll get! Photo is of A. pyrenaica itself, by Robert Höck.
~Aquilegia Species Mix at least nine types	I have a few different species of aquilegia in my garden that don't offer enough seed individually to offer to you. I've mixed this seed and added some of the other species found on this webpage, given a stir, made a wish and here they are! Be surprised ….and pleased! Singles, sometimes bicoloured and all sorts of shapes and sizes. Note, the photos are for rough guidance only
Connoisseurs Choice Very Special mix from 37 parents	Can't choose? How about this then: Connoisseurs' Choice. Very special mix from many very special, but low yield plants …the mix changes each year and is a marvellous opportunity to discover something very different and beautiful. Note: the photos may not depict actual plants harvested from, but gives an idea of the wealth of unusual forms that it contains.
Aquilegia Strewing Mix	HUGE packets that you can grow by scattering direct on the ground where you wish them to flower. Includes Touchwood Supreme mix with current plentifuls, as well as some of last year's spare seeds. Remember, they'll take 1-2 months to germinate!
FREE SEEDS …	Buy any 8 mixes, and choose another …free NOT including my special mixes below eg VOLCANO! and Shooting Stars mix	Go on, have another look at all the mixes above
Shooting Stars Mix Yellow doubles from Touchwood from 10 parents	Yellow doubles mix.
Dragon's Breath Mix from 10 parents	From the land of dragons, comes seed from the remarkable collection of red & yellow doubles at Touchwood. To get an idea of the range of flowers included in this mix, see the ones pictured above as red & yellow doubles. Having NOTHING to do with aquilegias, here's a link to WALKING the DRAGON , an article I first wrote for a family newsletter about a special walk here in Wales.
VOLCANO!	'Volcano!' Mix from Touchwood. Doubles with yellow in, including yellow doubles & apricotty ones. The photo well shows what my new aquilegia hybrid national plant collection is all about. Spectacular, aren't they?
Touchwood 'Sunrise Surprises'	Pink & yellow doubles mixed Seed from all sorts of pink and yellow doubles including the blushed yellow ones. New for 2013
Touchwood '??? Mix' Blue / indigo & (usually creamy) yellow doubles mixed New for 2013	Will you help me choose a name for this mix? Do you prefer 'Blue Moon' or 'Mystic Moonlight'? Or do you have a suggestion or two to offer? The blues and indigos, currently, are ones that open creamy yellow and ages lighter.
Touchwood '??? Mix' Purple & yellow doubles mix New for 2013	Will you help me choose a name for this mix? Do you prefer 'Crown Jewels', 'Emperor's Glory', 'Magic & Mystery' 'Merlin's Delight', 'Touchwood Treasures' ''Sultan's delights/secrets/specials/glory/ selection/ daydreams' 'oo la la!', 'Dancing girls', 'Frivolity & Fun' 'Wizard's Delight', or 'Merlin's Magic'? Or do you have a suggestion or two to offer that captures the rich colour mix? These and the next mix look rather similar. And, yes, it IS difficult to separate some purples from 'blacks', but generally to the eye (rather than camera) in daylight, these are more purple, and 'Night Lights' are darker.
Touchwood 'Night Lights' 'Black' & yellow doubles mixed New for 2013	Burgundy / black & yellow doubles. Seed from those closest to black that I can get with yellow accompanying it. Sometimes the yellow fades to creamy with maturity of the individual flower.
Touchwood 'Black & Bruises!' 'Black' / blue / purple & yellow doubles mixed New for 2013	What beautiful colours bruises go after some days, not just 'black & blue' but rich purples, burgundies and yellows. I think that the name of this mix (of the 3 above mixes) captures the striking colour effects of old bruises, without having to undergo the original pain!
I think your website is brilliant, your passion for the plants really comes across and selections are first class. Now I've found you, I'll know where to come again in the future. Kind regards, Mike Brown, Surrey 2011 Oh, your seedlist makes me sick, I have looked through it twice already, but there is absolutely no space for more aquilegias …or is there? What an effort you put into the list! The collection list, starting of with white and getting darker and darker for example, all the text describing all the entries …Susann, Sweden'I wrote earlier that my seed sowing skill is limited 'well, I am really rather pleased. I've ended up with over 20 plants each from the pink, white and black stellata seeds. I've 15 'Green Apple' plants too. Unfortunately, I only got five 'Firewheel'plants, but that's fine because I'm sure the little devils will produce some very interesting babies none-the-less! I'm planning a new border just for my babies! Thank you so much. With very best wishes Julia Alder August 2010 Thanks for the info Julia …very good for me as the Green Apples and Firewheel ones are seeds BUY IN! so the best germination was with my own seeds …probably because they are fresher one. And now that I know that Firewheel seeds were rather poor germinators I'll be able to put more in a packet next year. Green Apples is my own seed this year 'You will be pleased to hear that I have supplied most of Birkerød with lovely Touchwood aquilegias. Best wishes, Lise Sonne Rasmussen, Denmark 2012


Species and Named Cultivars All seeds are £2 a packet, discounts for 6 packets or more You should always have at least 20 seeds/packet often many more, it depends on the generosity of the plant or plants
Aquilegia species ex 2106 yellow New for 2013	Let's start the species list with unknown or unconfirmed species …not wanting to mislead and wrongly label, I offer packets of seeds from these parent plants. Lovely triternate foliage (looks delicate and rather like a maidenhair fern). Short, 12" / 30cms, delightful upfacing small flowers.
~Aquilegia pale yellow from Jyl New for 2013	I'm trying this myself, will you join me? Jyl explains the colour as a cream yellow with darker yellow blades, even though the photo has come out rather silvery. From a strong plant, 3' tall and very long-blooming.
Aquilegia species ex 2066 Orange & yellow Sold out 2013	Outfacing New for 2013
Aquilegia species ex 1780 Red & yellow Sold out 2013	Nodding New for 2013
Aquilegia species ex 2071 Red & yellow Sold out 2013	Nodding New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1472 & ex 1556	Here's some I grew from skinneri seed, which it isn't. What is it? I don't know …but isn't it lovely? I've popped it here with the species types, so order it by number and put red and yellow species type. The pics show flowers from the two different plants.
Aquilegia red and yellow species type double Sold out 2013	Here we have a 'natural' double form of the above type.
~Aquilegia alpina Sold out 2013	My friend Eddy took these photos in the French alps: Queyras.
Aquilegia atrata	Atrata means 'dark, and that's just what you'll get! Attractively exerted stamens. Last years seeds, double-sized packets. Sold out 2013
~A. bertolonii	Full sized flowers on diminutive plants …look closely at the photo on the right, you are seeing the whole plant …see the black rim of the pot? Photo, left, is by Jyl Tuck.
~Aquilegia canadensis Sold out 2013	Another from North America. Red and yellow. Did you know? The straight spur, which are particularly wide at the base is an adaptation to its pollinator …the humming-bird. So are the exerted stamens …which brush their pollen on the humming-birds neck as it uses its tongue to lap the nectar. One of the reasons for growing this, therefore, is to attract 'hummies' to the garden. It's not yet worked for me. Photo by Susann Nilsson (right) and Höck (left)
Aquilegia chrysantha cultivars Hi Carrie …Yesterday I sat in my very small garden and thought 'I wonder if I can get some yellow aquilegia? … …good grief I am completely and utterly blown away by your website. Absolutely fantastic and so inspiring and the answer is obviously yes!! So here's my list …'Anne Laney, Berkshire	Well named- as chrysantha means yellow. These have totally 'stolen the show' for me during their long flowering season. Seeds from long-lived cultivars in my garden.
Aquilegia chrysantha 'Yellow Star'	I'm really pleased to offer this favourite cultivar, I bought plants in 2011 at The National Botanic Garden of Wales. Many apologies, I offered this as 'Yellow Queen' last year. My mistake. I don't know the differences between them.
~Aquilegia coerulea	Huge clear-blue and white flowers Photo by Susann Nilsson
~Aquilegia ecalcarata Sold out 2013	Also known as Semiaquilegia ecalcarata. Small, exceedingly dainty maroonish flowers. Look …no spurs! Delightful. 8-15"
Aquilegia ecalcarata hybrid ex 1822 a-g 2-tone purple, yellowy inside New for 2013	Seed came from a friend, all seedlings were like this, with spurs on smallish plants. I love the yellowy colour inside, let's see what the next generation will look like.
Aquilegia ecalcarata hybrid from 'Elegant Ruby' x ecalcarata New for 2013 & VERY special!	This one will definitely throw different offspring. The mother parent was a golden leaved ruby single, and the father was A. ecalcarata. ALL offspring of this cross looked the same, all having the habit, size and look of A. ecalcarata, however the flowers are a good dark shade and have spurs. The next (f2) generation should be extremely interesting …I'm looking for the golden leaved sorts. There is also likely to be variation in colour, flower shape, time of flowering, heights etc etc AND new genes from any crossing done by the bumble-bees!
ex 1241 Pink clematis-flowered ecalcarata short	A. ecalcarata hybrid. I had been calling this pink form a stellata, but now I've learned that that is ONLY to be used for A. vulgaris forms of this shape.So, please do not use stellata yourself to describe these forms of A. ecalcarata or any other Aquilegia species. Now, what to do, let's revert to the common-useage description of such forms in A. vulgaris and call them clematis-flowered. So, here I offer a pink, clematis-flowered form of Aquilegia ecalcarata, that is probably a hybrid.
Pink clematis-flowered ecalcarata hybrid ex 1888/9/90 2' /60cms New for 201	From one similar to the above, came all these rather taller, 24-30" (60-75cms) plants all looking remarkably the same. Note 1890 is slightly darker than 1888 and 1889 (see photo below), ask for which you want. These are probably very similar to A. 'Apple Blossom'
~Aquilegia flabellata	Blue-purple, rather bell shaped flowers on plants to about 2' high. Photos by Susann Nilsson Sold out 2013
~Aquilegia flabellata var pumila (or nana)	These are quite short (6-7") plants, very dainty and beautiful. Rock garden, or in a pot: bicoloured blue and white petals. Delightful. Seed & pic from Jyl
~Aquilegia flabellata var pumila f alba from Jyl Tuck	The white form of this aquilegia, also known as A. flabellata 'Nana Alba'. Jyl Tuck explained: 'it grows to 12"-18"'tall, is early, long lived, with strong fan foliage-- living through our -20F winters with ease'.	(Carrie's note, this is rather tall for pumila, though less than expected for ordinary flabellata, I'm trying them all, will you?) Photos by Jyl Tuck
~Aquilegia flabellata 'Ministar' Sold out 2013	Short plants with large flowers in a clear blue and white.
~Aquilegia flabellata Mixed Sold out 2013	A. flabellata forms and hybrids (eg Mini Star and Cameo ranges) Be lucky and get unusual forms amongst them! These are short plants, very dainty and beautiful. Some will be exceedingly tiny indeed, rock garden delights, and most will be bicoloured with white petals and, most commonly, blue (or another colour) sepals.
~Aquilegia formosa ALSO var truncata	Beautiful red and yellow flowers on this plant native to western North America. Naturally pollinated by humming birds …hence those dangling golden stamens all positioned ready to dust the hummy's chin with pollen. But I've never seen one visit my plants …even when I've been an 'early worm'. Oh well, instead I can use them in a traditional way, as a love charm. Hope hubby doesn't mind! Also available as the variety truncata, where the inner petals are shorter (truncated). If you want these, order Aquilegia formosa var. truncata.	Aquilegia formosa
~Aquilegia fragrans	I love this plant so am sowing seeds from other people's plants to get a wider gene pool. Photo & seed from Plant World.
~laramiensis	Photo by Susann Nilsson
~Aquilegia longissima	Lovely yellow flowers with the looooooooooooooongest spurs! They can be 150cm (6") long. How on earth do any insects manage to get the nectar at the very end of the spurs? They are pollinated by moths with very long tongues indeed! I keep trying but can never get the true A. longissima..I suspect those are the ones that die during their first winter here. Let's try again.
~Aquilegia olympica	A species from the woods and meadows of the Turkish mountains.	Photo left by Höck. Seeds, & photo top from Jyl Tuck.
~Aquilegia oxysepala	Another species Aquilegia with maroon and mustard flowers. Nold, in his Columbine monograph, states: "This species, which differs from A. buergeriana in its strongly hooked spurs (which Susann Nilsson's photos admirably show) and barely exerted stamens, grows to 80cm. I had these seeds for myself from a new, untried source, there are some spare. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex ?xpuyearana New for 2013	I was thrilled to be given seeds of this hybrid to try, and really like the resulting plants, both were rather short, say 12'/ 35cms with slightly-purpley-red with yellow long-spurred flowers. I read in 'Columbines' monograph that A xpuryearana is from a crossing of A. hinckleyana and A. Canadensis. Also known as 'Blazing Star Columbine', they should be red & yellow but I'm unsure about their usual height. Mine don't seem to be as bright red, nevertheless they make handsome plants.
~pyrenaica subsp discolor syn A. discolor Sold out 2013	A. Pyrenaica subsp discolor: Extremely popular and often just known as Aquilegia discolor, a dainty rock-garden plant with blue-and white flowers. Photo and some of the seeds are from Jyl Tuck.
~Aquilegia saximontana	Blue and white alpine. From a friend, I have a few packets to spare. First come first served. Photo rhs by Höck. Photo lhs and seed supplied by Jyl Tuck.
~Aquilegia sibirica	My Swedish friend Susann introduced me to this species …her favourite with its almost red stems and blue and white flowers. She explained how it blooms so early and produces a real bouquet of flowers …and she sent me this photo. I was hooked! Guess where it's a native of? Yup, the species name says it all! About 60cms tall, and, in this form, blue and white flowers. New for 2013
~Auilegia ex viridiflora Sold out 2013	Olive and chocolate. Beautiful. Scented. I love it. Photos by Höck
Aquilegia ex viridiflora hybrid 1774	Rather unusual slatey-purple shades in this hybrid of viridiflora. Untried yet from seed …
Aquilegia vulgaris	Our British native, from which all the cultivars have been derived. Blue single flowers, seed originally from Chiltern Seeds. SORRY …no seed 2013, BUT I have PLENTY of seed collected from several blue flowered plants which may or may not be true to the wild type.
Aquilegia 'Black Barlow'	The blackest colour and the strangest flower. Mystical.
Aquilegia 'Black Barlow' type with wiry stem	This looks like 'Black Barlow', but the flower stem seemed thinner (yet strong).
Aquilegia Black Barlow TYPES	These flowered like (or rather like) 'Black Barlow' but came as different parents …or lost label parent. So expect some black Barlow offspring together with other interesting sorts!
~Aquilegia 'Blue Barlow'	Lovely spiky blue flowers. Collect the whole Barlow range, they are such good value in the garden.
~Aquilegia ex 'Bluebird'	'Bluebird' is one of the f1 songbird series, therefore will not come true from seed. However, you should get some really lovely offspring. 'Bluebird' itself is short (8-12'/ 20-35cms), and I found it rather difficult to keep during its first winter, only a greenhouse plant made it in 2011-12. New for 2013
Aquilegia 'Blue Fountain'	A marbled-bluey-purple double clematis-flowered form. Introduced by Touchwood, and causes quite a stir, as no-one appears to have seen anything quite like it. Sorry, marbling doesn't show up in the picture! Featured in my 'Six of the best Aquilegias' in Gardeners' World magasine, May 2007
~Aquilegia 'Blue Star' or ex 'Blue Star'	Long spurred blue and white. If labelled ex 'Blue Star' the seed will have been collected from my 'Blue Star' plants rather than via a wholesaler.
~Aquilegia 'Bordeaux Barlow'	I do love these deep, dark colours.
~Aquilegia 'Burnished Rose'	Golden leaves and pink double flowers. Seeds & pic from Plant World. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 'Chaffinch'	'Chaffinch' is one of the f1 songbird series, therefore will not come true from seed. However, you should get some really lovely offspring. 'Chaffinch' itself is short (8-12'/ 20-35cms), and was a slightly darker dark-pink than State series 'Montana'. New for 2013
~Aquilegia 'Christa Barlow'	A beautiful spiky pompom sepaloid double, blue with whiter tips.
Aquilegia Clementine Series ex blue Sold out 2013	Seed from the blue coloured form.
Aquilegia Clementine Series ex purple	Seed from the dark purple coloured form. New for 2013
'Crimson Star' syn 'Rotstern'	Crimson and white bicoloured, large-flowered, long-spurred hybrid. Amazing in bloom!
'Double Rubies'	Seed & pic from Plant World. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 'Elegance'	Amazingly elegant and graceful in growth, one of my favourites. Each flower perfectly poised on a dark coloured stem. Bred by Touchwood,'and introduced in 2008 Gold leaf, with a 'black' flower …the 'William Guiness' colour. Offspring can be selected at seedling stage for golden leaves.
ex 'Elegant Opal' Introduced 2011	Gold leaf, elegant white flower. Bred at Touchwood Before now I have offered seed from some of the un-named new colour forms that I have bred from 'Elegance' from 2011 I am naming them for the first time. Do grow the whole elegant family in your border they look great growing together!
ex 'Elegant Moonstone' Introduced in 2011	Bred at Touchwood Gold leaf, elegant marbled blue flower. Just like moonstone, some have more blue colouring than others.
ex 'Elegant Ruby' Introduced 2011	Bred at Touchwood Gold leaf, elegant ruby flower. Have you guessed yet? yes I'm naming all these after gemstones …they are so desirable, precious, and stylish …and each has a gold setting! Why not collect the full golden gemstone set?
Aquilegia ex 'Elegant Ruby'	Note: in February 2011, the 1st publication of 'Elegant Ruby' was in the RHS' The Garden Magazine. Included was the statement 'noticably long spurs'. However that is incorrect, and I requested acknowledgement of the printed error. For future reference, I also state it here.
~Aquilegia ex 'Firewheel'	Stellata form in fiery red. Seeds & pic from Plantworld. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 'Flamboyant'	Introduced by Touchwood. Scented pink and white double. My original plant started as a 'pink tatty' flower, second year was flamboyant pink-& -white longish spurred double, and third year showed tripling and even 5-tiers in a flower. Featured in 'Six of the best Aquilegias' in Gardeners' World magazine, May 2007
~Aquilegia ex 'Fragrant Fantasy' Sold out 2013	Seed & pic from Plant World. Let me quote what Ray Brown says on their site~: A new and lovely range of columbines bred from some of the most fragrant species in cultivation. The perfumed flowers come in all shapes and sizes, from tight pom-poms to long-spurred singles and in a wide variety of colours. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 'Golden Guiness' Sold out 2013	Woweeee! Golden leaf and (just about) black-and-white flowers. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 'Green Apples'	Another Barlow sort, introduced by Plant World. A white Barlow flower but the buds and young flowers are a distinct green. I hope to have both this and 'White Barlow' growing together in my collection. Why don't you do the same? The seeds are very different, black compared to 'White Barlow's greeny colour.
~'Heavenly Blue' 'Sky Blue' 'Blue Dream'	Known by all three names. Deservedly popular. Sky-blue and white, large-flowered, long-spurred hybrid. A clear sky blue. RECOMMENDED
~Aquilegia ex 'Iceberg'	Bred and introduced by Plant World, a large, fragrant blue and white (or blue and pale blue) aquilegia bred from the perfumed fragrans species. Seed from Plant World New for 2013
~'Koralle'	Really exciting, a red and yellow bicoloured, large-flowered, long-spurred hybrid. Absolutely amazing, do grow it. MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, a real show-stopper.
~ Aquilegia 'Leprechaun Gold'	Variegated leaf and double violet flowers. Lovely deep red flower stems. Photos by JELITTO New for 2013
'Lime Frost'	With variegated leaves and double indigo flowers, I'm unsure how this cultivar differs from 'Leprechaun Gold' or 'Woodside Blue'. Do you know?
Aquilegia ex 'Maine'	'Maine' is one of the f1 State series, therefore will not come true from seed. However, you should get some really lovely offspring. 'Maine' itself is short (8-12'/ 20-35cms), and a lovely pink and light yellow/cream. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 'Maxi' syn. 'Yellow Star'	A LARGE yellow cultivar. The 2 flowers at the bottom of the photo are 'Maxi', the 2 at the top are other chrysantha cultivars. The size difference IS real, although there's also perspective happening here to make the top ones look smaller.
Aquilegia ex 'Mellow Yellow	With a yellow leaf, and single or double, milky-white flowers, this brightens up a dull spot.
Aquilegia ex 'Montana' New for 2013	'Montana' is one of the f1 State series, therefore will not come true from seed. However, you should get some really lovely offspring. 'Montana' itself is short (8-12'/ 20-35cms), and a slightly lighter dark-pink than 'Chaffinch'.
~Aquilegia 'Nora Barlow'	Unusual sepaloid double where each 'petal' shades from deep old-rose-pink through cream to the green tips. An old, beautifully and regularly formed variety. Can 'Nora Barlow' really be an aquilegia?
~Aquilegia 'Oranges and Lemons'	Introduced by Plant World, a range of red, orange and yellow flowers over a very long season indeed. Photo and seed from Plant World. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex State Series 'Oregon' Sold out 2013	Seed from one of the amazing range in the State Series of knee-high, large flowered, long spurred American hybrids. I understand that the State Series are f1 hybrids, so what you will grow from these seeds WILL NOT BE 'OREGON'. Having warned you of that, hopefully you'll get a good range of garden-worthy plants.
~Aquilegia 'Perfumed Garden'	Large, scented flowers. Photo and seed from Plant World. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 'Red Hobbit'	Wonderful red-& -white long spurred aquilegia. Cheerful in the garden, and attracts a lot of attention.
Aquilegia ex 'Red Star' Sold out 2013	Understandably a great favourite in the garden.
~Aquilegia 'Rose Barlow'	A type of stellata form …a Barlow shape so it's a very spiky double pompom type in pink. Featured in 'Six of the best Aquilegias' in Gardeners' World magasine, May 2007	Aquilegia 'Rose Barlow'
~Aquilegia 'Rose Queen'	Lovely long spurred sort in pink and white.
Aquilegia ex 'Skylark' New for 2013	'Skylark'' is one of the f1 Songbird series, therefore will not come true from seed. However, you should get some really lovely offspring. 'Skylark' itself is short (8-12'/ 20-35cms), and has an unusual shade of purple-maroon set off with a white centre.
Aquilegia ex 'Snowballs' New for 2013	Lovely white pom-pom flowers. Shorter plants. Introduced by Plant World.
Aquilegia ex Spring Magic Pink & white Sold out 2013	Spring Magic is a magical range of dwarf (8-15") aquilegias that have large, long spurred flowers held just above the foliage, very lovely and well proportioned. The plant supplier called it rose and white, but I disagree …it's a pastel pink rather than a darker rose pink.
Aquilegia ex Spring Magic Rose & Ivory	I love this colour combination, do you? Note in 2010: just as well I love it as this year my new 'light red and yellow' spring magic seedlings flowered …exactly the same shade. Different seedhouses description for the same item. Ho humm. Still …they did repeat flower …making them one of the earliest AND latest flowering aquilegias in the garden!
Aquilegia ex Spring Magic Blue & white	The most popular of the trio
ex Spring Magic White	Lovely.
ex Spring Magic Yellow	Wasn't I lucky to find these? Another Spring Magic winner!
ex Spring Magic Mix from 3 parents	Photo captures them just about to burst into flower: one of the earliest in the garden. These 3 plants are growing in one large container.
Aquilegia ex 'Strawberry Icecream' New for 2013	Pink & white pleated double. Possibly the aquilegia that really got me started on the hunt for more and more cultivars. Introduced by Plant World. Seed from my 'best' plant will be used first, then the other plant, which is still very good but not quite as perfect! 'Strawberry Icecream' was featured in my 'Six of the best Aquilegias' in Gardeners' World magasine, May 2007
Aquilegia 'Sweet Dreams'	Bred by Touchwood 2008 was the first year of presentation of this 'new baby' of mine. I have the greatest of pleasure in introducing this most beautiful cultivar. 'Sweet Dreams' combines my finest pretty pastel pink stellata with the blessing of variegated leaves. The prettiness of the pastel pink is conferred because it shades from old-rose pink through cream to green tips. And yes, it DOES have a central raised area to the flower, which adds greatly to its charm.
'Tower Light Blue'	Lovely pale marbled blue double
Aquilegia ex 'Virginia' New for 2013	'Virginia' is one of the f1 State series, therefore will not come true from seed. However, you should get some really lovely offspring. 'Virginia' itself is short (8-12'/ 20-35cms), in the always-a-winner combination of blue & white.
Aquilegia 'White Barlow'	The Barlow sorts are justifiably popular. The dense spiky flowers show up well in the garden …and the paler the colour the more outstanding it is …which makes this one very visible indeed and bound to excite comment. But will people believe it's an aquilegia?
Aquilegia 'White Star' Also known as 'Kristall' & 'Crystal Star'	Long spurred white: dreamy, creamy blooms. Note, seedlings WILL have purpleyness to their stems, unlike vulgaris whites and the other white long-spurred type that I offer.
Aquilegia 'William Guiness'	Aquilegia 'William Guiness', also known as 'Magpie', such a perfectly fitting name for the (just about) black-and-white flowers. This is justifiably many people's favourite aquilegia. Do grow it if you don't already. Featured in my 'Six of the best Aquilegias' in Gardeners' World magasine, May 2007
Aquilegia ex 'William Guiness' doubles	Just in case you already have the single … …here's the double version. Just wait 'til your friends see! …and have you seen the golden leafed version: 'Golden Guiness' double forms? Last years' seeds, so double-sized packets.
Aquilegia Winky ex pale pink Sold out 2013	Especially bred to cheerily look up at you! Shorter plants about 12-20" high. A bed of these looks fantastic …I think it's the closest to 'bedding' with aquilegias that you can get! Though of course you don't need to use them like that …just in the normal way or about 3 in a large pot looks great. Last years' seeds so double-sized packets
Aquilegia Winky type ex purple Sold out 2013	Upward facing blooms. Last years' seeds so double-sized packets
Aquilegia Winky type ex white	Upward facing blooms. New for 2013
Aquilegia Winky ex red & white	Upward facing blooms.
Aquilegia Winky type ex indigo & white	Blue with white is ALWAYS a winner! Upward facing blooms. sorry no pic New for 2013
Aquilegia Winky ex red & white double	Upward facing? Of course! New for 2013
Aquilegia 'Woodside Blue'	Double indigo flowers over variegated foliage. There are new cultivars out called 'Leprechaun's Gold' and 'Lime Frost', which has the same description. Does anyone know if they are the same or otherwise how they differ? I can't find much difference, can you?
~Aquilegia 'Woodside White''	Double white flowers, variegated leaves. Cool and lovely. Photo from Plant World. I have a fewseeds for 2013 from an untried source. Interested? '
Looking for even more inspiration? Robert Hock's Aquilegia video on YouTube shows many named forms, visit and enjoy the show!


Described forms All seeds are £2 a packet, cheaper for 6 packets or more
This section starts with singles, long-spurreds, then doubles, then stellatas, then coloured leaf forms. Similar colours have been grouped together within those sets.'Note: 'ex number' is the number and description is of the parent plant …it's hoped that some, at least, will come true.
Aquilegia white flower usual 3' or choose 2'	A single white, ever popular. Select seedlings without any purpley hue to the leaf stalks of the seedlings. Seedling plants flowering in 2008 were noticed to have three main heights. I assume therefore, that I have a shorter type (2'ish) a normal height (3'ish) and a hybrid.	AMAZING FACT: Aquilegias are also known as 'columbine' which is French for 'dove'. Can you see the 5 doves sitting in a circle having a good old natter 'tete-to-tete'?
Aquilegia white flower Short plants All are 12-24" Choose ex 1119 ex 1762 or ex 1324	ex 1119 was from 'short almost bell-shaped white' Poss flabellata type ex 1762, 18" tall was from a lost label so parentage therefore unknown New for 2013	ex 1324 short white is shortest, dwarf sized ex kuhistanica New for 2013
Aquilegia ex delicate white single New for 2013	Whites always show up so well in the garden, shortish: 20-30" high, these are particularly delicate white singles
Aquilegia ex white single MIX including unusuals New for 2013	Collected from various white-flowered plants including those with a hint of cream or pink (right) to them
ex slender white Few seeds	I grew this originally from so-called A. coerulea seed …to which its shape and colour bear no resemblance! For years, although visitors praised it's sleek lines and slightly creamy whiteness, I only collected seed as a mix of all my white singles. Then I decided to see if it came true from seed. It does! Just as well, as meanwhile my parent plant passed on. Do grow it, it's quite delightful! The photo here compares it with the 'normal' white vulgaris flower, which is whiter, shorter and wider.	DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS? If so please let me know.
Aquilegia ex 1513 Creamy single	Creamy flowers, mid-sized with a scent. This is a hybrid, so don't know what the offspring will be like.
Aquilegia ex 1505 Creamy single	Creamy flowers. This is a hybrid, so don't know what the offspring will be like. Flowered first time 2010 and made a real impact over a long period. Possibly a self-sown seedling from chrysantha, but flowers are vulgaris-sized.
Aquilegia ex 1970 Yellow single Sold out 2013	From a pinky-orange & yellow double came this charming, nodding yellow single. Love it! New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1506 Blushed yellow single	This is a hybrid, so don't know what the offspring will be like, it's possibly a self-sown seedling from chrysantha, but flowers are mid-sized. More below of similar with greater pink tints in them in the bicoloured list.
Aquilegia ex 324 White flushed pink	Drat, no pic. Starts white then develops a delicate pink flush
Aquilegia ex 1450 Off-white	Pinky, off-white single. Sold out 2013 …well I can't find the seeds!
Aquilegia ex 1170 Lightest marbled red.	Largish flowers on this plant of a rare lightest marbled red. 'marbled' is how I describe reds and blues that are blended with white to give a colour that is different to eg lightest pink. As white is blended with the colour you can select at seedling stage: look for no purpleyness to the leaf stem.	OOPS in 2013 it had mainly DOUBLE flowers!! after 2 years as a single flowered plant!
What colour is pink?	How do I describe flower colours? I do the best that I can, and hope to get it right most of the time, eg that a dark pink is described the same whether it's in my front garden or the back garden! But what I call dark pink may not be what you imagine as that. Here I have taken a photo that should help. Starting at the BOTTOM is what I call palest pink, and going CLOCKWISE there is pale pink, pink, dark pink and finally ruby. Is that helpful?
Aquilegia Palest pink single	Shows up really well. A delicate beauty
Aquilegia Light pink single	Quiet charm, that lights up the garden.
Aquilegia pink single	Good sugar-pink colour.
Aquilegia ex 1511 delicately held pink single	Nice dark stem, ex A nigricans New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1867 Tall 2-tone pink	Tall plant 2-tone pink (apricotty-cream) flowers with longish spurs. 'Rescued' from my plant sales area, so don't know the parentage! Very long season of flowering. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1897 2-tone pink Sold out 2013 New for 2013	Largish flowers on this atrata x coerulea hybrid …and some were doubles
Aquilegia dark pink single
Aquilegia ruby single	Good ruby (crimson) colour
Aquilegia ex 1277 unusual red	Slightly curly petals & sepals that only open as wide as the photo shows. A seedling from 'Flamboyant'! New for 2013
ex 613	Much loved plant. I'm sure we'll get loads of interesting offspring. COMMENT 2009. OFFSPRING REALLY GOOD. Not the same at all, but I kept most of them as very desirable traits.
ex 1551 Light-edged, reddy spreading New for 2013	Surprisingly coloured seedling from 1030, a purple and white double stellata type. Longer-spurred. The photo LHS shows it with a similarly coloured astrantia. Goodness knows what offspring will be like …
ex 1806 Ice-blue-grey single	One of the marbled blue shades that I so love, here in ice-blue with a grey tone (probably a purpley cast to it). New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1293 Sold out 2013 2-tone marbled blue single	Pale 2-tone marbled blue single. THIS was one plant that everyone wanted when they saw it …I had to quickly get it into my border so that I didn't have to keep saying 'no' to visitors! Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets.
Aquilegia ex 1442 Light marbled purple single	Definitely desirable!
Aquilegia ex 1760 Pale marbled blue single	Surprising seedling from a cross I made of 821 (creamy-white and blue double) with 835 (pink & yellow double). This seedling has leaf stems with no purple hue to them, so I knew it would be rather different to its parents. Goodness knows where the marbled blue shade came from! Offspring may be very variable, let's find out. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1246 Marbled blue variable	A real show-stopper. Joyful & lovely. Most flowers are single, but with a smattering of doubles to add even more interest.
Aquilegia ex 1788 Blue-purple thin blades New for 2013	I love those very unusual long thin blades (the part of the petal that is lowest on this photo, the 'inner circle' as seen from below. Seedling from 999 which also has long thin blades but is nearly black in colour with a white edge.
What colour is blue?	How do I describe flower colours? I do the best that I can, and hope to get it right most of the time, eg that a good blue is described the same whether it's in my front garden or the back garden! But what I call blue may not be what you imagine as that. My photos of each plant should help, but remember digital pics enhance blueness. Here I have taken a photo that should help. Starting at the TOP LEFT is what I call blue, and then good blue (yes, those are subtle differences). Bottom row is purple then indigo-purple. Is that helpful?
Aquilegia ex 1574 Sold out 2013 Early good blue single	Shorter, at 14-18'/ 30-40cms this very early single probably came from seed of an alpine form, but this is far taller. I hope that offspring will include the trait of early flowering as well as colour and flower form …they are held nearly horizontally. New for 2013
Aquilegia blue single	The original wild form is this shade. So this is great for the wild garden as well as anywhere else. The shade is on the purple side of blue.
Aquilegia ex 1146 Good blue single	This plant has a really good blue colour to the flowers. (not really apparent on the photo …sorry) Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets.
Aquilegia ex 859 Scented 2-tone blue	Came from fragrans seed.
Aquilegia 'ex 678 Sold out 2013	2-tone blue lightly scented Strong and floriferous plant. Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets.
Aquilegia indigo singles	Nice dark blues.
Aquilegia ex 1827 Tall indigo, lighter inside New for 2013	Hmm, looks purple on the photo, oh well! Expect very variable offspring as this is a deliberate cross of yellow-leaved 'Elegance' with an unknown pollen parent …unknown because the label became unreadable! There's definitely a yellow hue inside the flowers, so I expect that the cross was with some type of flower with yellow in it. Some flowers were double …don't know if that will be continued.
Aquilegia ex 1625 Large indigo single New for 2013	Hmm, again looks purple on the photo. These are large flowers on a shorter plant 18" / 50cms. Goodness knows what the offspring will be like as this is a hybrid of buergeriana x vulgaris from Austria!
Aquilegia ex 1626 Large indigo single	Again looks purple on the photo. These are large flowers on a slightly shorter plant 2-2.5' / 60-85cms. Goodness knows what the offspring will be like as the mother parent plant was a red & yellow double from Austria! New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 2060 Large indigo-purple single New for 2013	Brother to the above, these are large flowers on a slightly shorter plant 2-2.5' / 60-85cms. Goodness knows what the offspring will be like as the mother parent plant was a red & yellow double from Austria!
Aquilegia ex 2118 Large 2-tone indigo-purple single New for 2013	Another large flower in an indigo-purple shade although the seed parent was supposed to be the yellow species A. flavescens! The 2-tone shade includes a yellowyness inside the flower, so it looks as if it has some yellow genes, so let's see what the offspring are like. I always appreciate feedback of what types of flowers are grown from my seeds, so do let me know.
Aquilegia Purple single	Richly coloured flowers.
Aquilegia Purple pinched petals single New for 2013	Open flowers, with an interesting pinch to the petals ex A glandulosa
Aquilegia ex 1994 Black, lighter inside	Interesting seedling, supposedly from A. buergeriana! New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1773 Short black single	Another strange one, supposedly from A colchica, which Nold's monograph says should be blue & white. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1679-80 Black single New for 2013	Seedlings of A. 'Ballerina' all came out exactly the same …but as a black single rather than a pink double. I strongly suspect this was wrongly-labelled seeds. If I'm wrong you may get pink doubles amongst your seedlings. Strong & floriferous.
Aquilegia ex 954 Black single	Such gorgeous contrast of the yellow anthers against the near-black petals. Ex Aquilegia 'Miss M I Huish', a 'Black Barlow type.'
Aquilegia ex 1158 Black single	Single black flowers. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1201 Black single Sold out 2013	Black single. Ya-wow!
	Now we move onto the Touchwood range of seeds from BICOLOURED SINGLES. Firstly the vulgaris-types then the long-spurred ones.
Aquilegia 1071 hint of a tint of pink, and white	Palest, palest pink in the sepals, with green tips. White petals.
Aquilegia ex 1796 Lilac pink & creamy single New for 2013	Rather taller than usual, at 3.5' / or just over a metre high, this has longish straight spurs. A strong and long-flowering plant. As this is a seedling from 955 (creamy yellow single) so offspring will be variable.
Aquilegia ex 1297 Marbled blue and white.	Pale marbled blue and white. Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets.
Aquilegia ex 188 Lilac & white Sold out 2013	Not only a most beautiful lilac and white, but very early, and scented too! Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets.
Aquilegia ex 1326 Dwarf blue & white New for 2013	This dwarf blue and white single came from purported A kuhistanica seeds …but that species is unlikely to actually exist. This is pretty though, isn't it?
Aquilegia ex 1771 Blue and white	From seed that I had labelled A colchica, this is certainly the correct colour and has the strongly hooked spurs. However the blades are not truncate and I have no idea if this actually resembles A colchica, especially as sister seedlings were very different. New for 2013 and well worth growing even if offspring are variable.
Aquilegia ex 1212 Small blue and white New for 2013 Sold out 2013	Although most flowers are single, and produced over a very long season, this small blue and white started out with double flowers with a distinct yellow glow to the white. Tall, a good 4' 130cms, and floriferous yet setting very few seeds indeed. Expect variable seedlings.
Aquilegia ex 1383 Large indigo-blue & white	Most amazing hybrid (it came from a lemon pink long-spurred!). It just flowered and flowered for about 10 weeks (2010) at about 3.5-4' tall (1-1.2m). Early flowers had deformed spurs (bumbles?) but later showed the beautiful long curled spurs that adorn this plant. What on earth will offspring be like? Let's find out!
Aquilegia ex 1876 Large indigo & white	Possibly a self-sown seedling of the above plant, 1383, but darker New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 534 Large indigo & white	Fairly late flowering is this large indigo and white scented
Aquilegia ex 1677 Large indigo & white	Indigo & white, large flower, the mother plant was 821, a double. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1908 Blue & creamy hybrid longer spur New for 2013	An exciting hybrid of A. 'Elegance' x chrysantha so expect very variable offspring including golden leaved ones. Some flowers were double, and you can see the yellow influence of the chrysantha genes in the colour as the buds open.
Aquilegia ex 2120 Blue & creamy hybrid longer spur New for 2013	Another exciting hybrid this time of A. 'Elegance' x ? … where ? means I couldn't read the writing at harvest-time! The photo is actually of the above 1908 as I have no photo of this one (I wasn't going to keep it then realised I couldn't bear to part with it! Again, expect very variable offspring including golden leaved ones.
Aquilegia ex 1974 Large indigo-purple & white hybrid single Sold out 2013	An interesting hybrid of a huge blue & white double with a ruby & white long-spurred cultivar. Offspring will therefore vary. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1880 Purple-indigo & white single New for 2013	Lovely spurs. Chance seedling from my slender white single. Offspring will vary.
Aquilegia ex 1542 White-edged indigo single	A seedling from 999, a white-edged black, like 1673 below. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1470 Purple & white New for 2013	Isn't that lovely? It has quite spreading blades, and came from 1000, purple striped with an open centre.
Aquilegia ex 884 Deep purple & white	Well-coloured single. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 2059 Black & white single	From a red & white stripy parent came this black and white single New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1864 Black & white single New for 2013	From the same red & white stripy parent also came this black and white single …with some double flowers.
Aquilegia ex 999 White-edged black long blades New for 2013	Deep purple-black with a white trim. This is giving rise to some very desirable offspring including similar ones to itself, eg 1673 Isn't that different?
Aquilegia ex 1673 White-edged black long blades. New for 2013	Deep purple-black with a white trim. Look at those long blades (the inner ring that hangs down). From 999, which is very similar.
Touchwood Harmony Mix Yellow bicoloured mix from 6 parents New for 2013	These are unusual, they are the sorts of colours found in large, long-spurred aquilegias, but these are often only vulgaris-sized blooms. Some may hold their heads hanging like the vulgaris cultivars rather than the long-spurred ones, which face outwards. Yes, you've guessed, these are hybrids. Because of this, you'll be likely to get some very different and unusual offspring from this seed mix. There's also the opportunity to buy seeds from individual plants, as featured below.
Aquilegia ex 1507 2-tone yellow	These 2-tone (or blushed) yellow flowers are midsized and borne on a plant that may prove to be slightly shorter than the usual 3'. This is a self sown seedling, possibly from chrysantha (that I thought usually came true …what results have YOU had with Touchwood's chrysantha seeds?). A hybrid, so offspring likely to be very variable …and probably desirable as well!
Aquilegia ex 1907 Pink & creamy single	I lost the label, but this is possibly an 'Elegance' x chrysantha hybrid New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1828 Dark pink, lighter inside single New for 2013	Another exciting hybrid this time of A. 'Elegance' x ? …where ? means I couldn't read the writing at harvest-time! Again, expect very variable offspring including golden leaved ones.
Aquilegia ex 1656 Pink & yellow single New for 2013	This came from a red & yellow double. Offspring may give exciting surprises!
Aquilegia ex 904 Pink & yellow single New for 2013	Seedling from 'Perfumed Garden' mix
Aquilegia ex 1757 Small orange & yellow single	Small flowers in orange and yellow. From a blushed yellow double. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1739 Large dark pink & yellow single	Large flowers in pink and yellow. From a pink & yellow double. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1232 Dark pink & yellow	This dark pink single has yellow inside the rim, on a plant growing to about 15-24'tall (50-65cms) A hybrid, so offspring likely to be very variable.
Aquilegia ex 1723 Red and creamy, largish New for 2013	Creamy yellow centre on this unusual bicolour, from a blushed yellow double.
Aquilegia ex 1655 Maroon & yellow single	The maroon colour is 'sludgier' on the outside, I love it! From a red & yellow double New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1435 Faded lilac & yellowy single New for 2013 Sold out 2013	One of the most beautiful aquilegias I have seen. Subtle colouring, lovely form, and just a little larger than a vulgaris bloom. Lightly scented. A chance seedling from longissima. (which may have been another yellow species, it usually is!) VERY few seeds are set either naturally or when I cross-pollinated or selfed it …most crosses failed or offered few seeds.
Aquilegia ex 1578 Purple & yellow single New for 2013	Very desirable colours, will it pass these onto its offspring? Parent plants were 821 (blue and creamy white double) x 835 (pink & yellow double). I tried crossing this plant with 3 different others (including itself), and all failed, luckily there's some open-pollinated seed available.
Aquilegia ex 1725 dark with yellow inside single New for 2013	Wow, how good is THAT!? A seedling of 'Elegance' x ? …yes the cross-pollination label faded before harvest so only the mother parent was known. This has 'Elegance's dark colour but is bicoloured with yellow inside, so presume yellow genes from the pollen parent. Hopfully I'll get some golden leaved aquilegias in the next generation, and so will you.
Aquilegia ex 1744 Large indigo-purple & creamy single New for 2013	From a large purple & white double. Pic lhs shows 1744 vs an indigo coloured sepal. Another seedling, like the above, of 'Elegance' x ? …yes the cross-pollination label faded before harvest so only the mother parent was known.
HYBRIDS from TOUCHWOOD New for 2013 I've had great fun with hybridising in 2011 and seeing the results this year, 2012. There are some hybrids (f1 generations) that appear fairly uniform, because their two parent plants were standard cultivars, strains or species. Here I share with you some of those splendid ranges. Choose which hybrid and you will usually get seed from a particular numbered plant …if you want to try seed from different plants then that's what you will get if you order more than 1 packet of a certain hybrid. Be aware you will NOT get offspring the same as these plants. You will be growing the f2 generation so expect a glorious array of all sorts of characteristics from each of the parent plant as well as the hybrid itself. That's why I inform you what the parentage is, both here and elsewhere in my list where I offer plants grown from seeds that I have pollinated myself. There will also be further consternation/ excitement/ chaos/ fortune caused by natural cross-pollination by bumble bees bringing in OTHER characteristics (genes) not found in these hybrids or their parents. Buy, sow, and have fun! And do let me know your results. I find growing long-spurred types difficult here in Swansea, I think our winters are to 'warm' and wet for them to thrive. These hybrids show tremendous vigour, the 1 year old plants were far larger than I think I've ever grown any long-spurreds in one year …though most were also grown to flowering in nursery rows rather than being potted up in the winter.
ex Touchwood Hybrid A Pink & creamy long-spurred 2 - 2.5' New for 2013	HYBRID A is Aquilegia chrysantha x a "dark pink & cream long spurred" There was some variation in colour tint of the pink and the cream in these offspring, however the differences were not as great as tint differences between when a flower first opens and the colour it fades to when fully open and mature. You can see those differences for yourself with the 2 photos that show 2 flowers …both have a just-opened and a more mature flower.

ex Touchwood Hybrid B Red & creamy yellow long-spurred 2-3'	HYBRID B is Aquilegia chrysantha x a "red and creamy yellow, long spurred" Very little variation between plants, see the photo top left of 2 flowers, each from a different plant. New for 2013
Hybrid B
Aquilegia ex TOUCHWOOD HYBRID C 3' 1m Red & yellow long-spurred New for 2013	HYBRID C is Aquilegia chrysantha x a "red & yellow species type" The flowers are rather smaller than Touchwood Hybrids A & B, but the phenomenal colours make them more magnificent in the garden. The next generation of plants should include larger sized flowers as the A chrysantha genes Very little variation between plants, a really intense red & yellow, a real showstopper. I had so many plants all the same that I sold some and they went as quickly as I put them out. Strong plants and very floriferous over a very long period, they only disappointed me because they set very little seed indeed.

Long spurred hybrids	Below I offer some seed from some choice long-spurred hybrids. Will they come true? I don't know, but all are likely to be desirable plants. Artist Sandra Candler has beautifully captured the airy nature, charm and impact of these type of flowers in this beautiful painting. By the way, for more Aquilegia Artwork visit http://www.aquilegiaholic.at/page69.html
Aquilegia ex 1657 Large white not quite a long-spurred New for 2013	The most spectacular plant in the nursery rows in full flower for the first time, 2012. Must be the biggest plant I've ever grown in 1 year! It was supposed to be 'silver Queen' a white long-spurred sort but evidently a hybrid as not really long spurred, but still the same large blooms. It flowered early and just kept going until one of the last to still be in flower. Why? Well, unfortunately it set very little seed, sometimes these hybrids are like mules and just are not fertile.
Aquilegia ex Creamy-white long-spurred	I have seed from several of these plants. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 2055 Nodding cream & creamy-white long-spurred Sold out 2013	A cross of buergeriana and chrysantha, so expect surprise offspring! New for 2013
Aquilegi ex 2117 2-tone creamy long-spurred New for 2013	Slightly blushed, is this Harbutt's hybrid.
Aquilegia ex 2069 White & light yellow long-spurred	From a cream & white long-spurred, this has more yellow tint. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex salmon long-spurred	Love the colour on this long-spurred. New for 2013 Sold out 2013
Aquilegia ex 1812 Pink & white long-spurred	From a red & white long-spurred. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex red & cream long-spurred	New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 2010 Dark pink & creamy long-spurred New for 2013	Mother plant was a red & yellow double.	'
Aquilegia ex 1046 Dark pink and cream long-spurred	Dark pink and cream long-spurred. Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets
Aquilegia ex 1008 Dark blue and white long-spurred	Flowered for the first time in 2009, so is proving long-lived for these sorts of plants at Touchwood. Hopefully the offspring will also be suited to our conditions, although the colours in resulting seedlings may vary.
Aquilegia ex 1909 Purple and white long-spurred	New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1466 Purple & creamy white long-spurred	New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1496 2-tone smallish yellow long-spurred	Rather nice flowers, came from a yellow double so offspring may offer some good surprises.
Aquilegia ex 2091 Yellow mid-sized long-spurred	Good yellow colour. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1826 Nodding 2-tone yellow long-spurred New for 2013	I absolutely love this. A long spurred 2-tone yellow yet with nodding blooms. And some scent. A seedling from a cross of buergeriana x chrysantha by my Austrian friend, so expect unusual offspring.
Aquilegia ex 2003 Yellow mid-sized long-spurred	A flavescens seedling New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1356 2-tone yellow long-spurred	New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1992 Blushed yellow mid-sized long-spurred	Chrysantha x blushed yellow double. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1559 Blushed yellow smallish long-spurred	New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1996 Blushed yellow long-spurred	A flavescens seedling New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1658 Blushed yellow long-spurred	Seedling from a double in these colours. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1065	Yellow long spurred with blushed sepals. Wow …this was a floriferous winner this year (2010) with a strong yet delicate presence over a long period. Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets Pic also shows the double 1061 which has similar colouring.
Aquilegia ex 1676 Dark pink & yellow long-spurred	Fairly short, this hybrid is a seedling of the cross buergeriana x vulgaris made by Robert Hock New for 2013 Sold out 2013
Aquilegia ex 1859 Deep pink & yellow long-spurred	A McKana hybrid New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 2116 Dark pink & yellow long-spurred	A Harbutt's hybrid New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1737 Dark pink & yellow long-spurred	Fairly short, 15" / 40cms this is a seedling of an orange & yellow double. Rather like a Spring Magic plant. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1738 Dark pink & yellow long-spurred New for 2013	Fairly short, 15" / 40cms this is a seedling of an orange & yellow double. Brother to the above, but a stronger yellow. Rather like a Spring Magic plant.
Aquilegia ex 2011 Orange & yellow mid-sized, nodding long-spurred	Seedling from a red & yellow double. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 2044 orangy-red & yellow mid-sized long-spurred	Hybrid seedling from cross-pollination of A. chrysantha x a blushed yellow double . 2.5' 80-90cms New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 2042 orangy-red & yellow mid-sized long-spurred New for 2013	Sister to the above, but taller at 3.5' 100-120cms …the photo lhs shows them both growing together. 1633 is the special blue & white double behind them. Hybrid seedling from cross-pollination of A. chrysantha x a blushed yellow double.
Aquilegia ex 1341 orangey-red & yellow long spurred
Aquilegia ex 1825 Red & yellow long-spurred New for 2013	A seedling from A. hinckleyana, I love this, especially looking at the flowers from behind, and the buds before they open.
Aquilegia ex 1995 Rose & yellow long spurred	Seedling from (supposedly) A. flavescens. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1220 Red & yellow long spurred	New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1824 short red & light yellow long spurred	Seedling from A buergeriana ! About 10'tall / 25cms, and with red-tinged leaves. New for 2013
Aquilegi ex 1675 Short red & yellow long spurred	Seedling from a red & yellow double, very similar looking to Spring Magic rose & ivory, but this one is a little darker in colour. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1672 short red & yellow long spurred	Sister to the above. Seedling from a red & yellow double. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1832 light slatey purple & yellow long-spurred	Great colouring …seedling from a red & yellow long-spurred New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1831 Slatey maroon & yellow long-spurred	Sister to the above …seedling from a red & yellow long-spurred New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1529 Purple & yellow long-spurred	Sister to the above two …seedling from a red & yellow long-spurred New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1665 Sold out 2013 Burnished shades long-spurred	Great colouring … Seedling from a crimson & white long-spurred. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1651 Burgundy & yellow long-spurred	New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1742 Burgundy & yellow long-spurred New for 2013	Seedling from a similarly coloured long-spurred parent.
~ AQUILEGIA LONG-SPURRED MIX (from 35 mother plants)	eg McKanas, Dragonfly, coerulea hybrids, Songbird series etc. USUALLY these are bicoloured, having either white or yellows as the second colour. The yellow, of course, can be any shade from creamy to orangey.
Aquilegia Touchwood PHARAOH'S TREASURE MIX Yellows mix from 17 parents New for 2013	What a great selection …from all types of yellow singles with a few doubles added for even greater effect. Most parents were long spurred Aquilegia chrysantha types including blushed yellow ones, some will be smaller flowered or even nodding blooms.


Now let's look at seed collected from my many and varied DOUBLE FORMS Then stellata (clematis-flowered) forms, then variegated and golden leaved
Aquilegia ex 1148 Short white double	Upward facing flowers New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1441 Sold out 2013 White pleated double	Beautiful, and so easy to place in the garden. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 2075 White pleated double	I'm separating out some more of my popular white doubles, so you can buy several types and have a wider gene pool. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1641 White pleated double New for 2013	Supposedly a seedling from 835 (pink & yellow double) selfed!
Aquilegia ex 1453 White full double	Do you like these full, pompom-like doubles? Whatever happened to the old art of making wool pompoms to adorn bobble-hats? I guess people rarely knit their own hats now, they and the pompoms are machine-made.
Aquilegia ex 1983 White pompom double	Oops, just found out that I have no photo of this, the pic given will be a similar sort. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1881 White variable double New for 2013	A chance seedling from my slender white single, this has longer spurs but very variable and unusual shape. Worth a go to find out what type of offspring will result.
Aquilegia ex 1400 Creamy white double	Again a most desirable form, the flowers are set off by dark stems and it is scented. Parentage unknown, this was a self-sown seedling.
Aquilegia ex 1248 Short creamy white double	A hint of lilac, and it is scented. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 2056 Large creamy white double Sold out 2013	A seedling from buergeriana x chrysantha, from an Austrian friend. Goodness knows where the doubling came from! . New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1244 Off-white spiky double Sold out 2013	Love this hybrid from my amazing red & yellow variable crossed by a marbled blue double. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1497 Hint of a tint of pink double	The spiky pompoms of A. vulgaris stellata in their double Barlow form are always intriguing additions to your garden. Especially this one, it's not a colour you're likely to find elsewhere.
Aquilegia ex 774 Hint of a tint of pink full double	Hint of a tint of pink full double
Aquilegia ex 1615 Colour-washed, warm white double	A seedling from a pink & yellow double, this has colour-washed spurs, very pretty. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 491 Hint of a tint of pink full double New for 2013	Oops. No photo, I've used the one from 774 on rhs and the lhs is of the mother plant (which itself came from 'Flamboyant').
Aquilegia ex 1714 Hint of a tint of pink pleated double	From one described as 'creamy yellow' came this striking pleated double. I grew several and others were similar but more 2-tone, they are listed below in bicolours. Hopefully you, too, should get a good proportion (or all) similar ones. 2-tone colour, just creamy from the 'bottom/front' view Note the plant stems have little or no purple in them. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1120 Sold out 2013 Short, light pink double	Strong, short, light pink double
Aquilegia ex 1363 Pink, with hint of apricot, small double New for 2013	Expect surprises as the parent plant was an A. ecalcarata!
Aquilegia ex 743 Light pink pleated	Light pink pleated double. Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets.
Aquilegia ex 1637 pink double	Has nice red stems. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1719 Pink full double	A sparkling addition to your collection. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1154 Pink pleated double	Very special. The flowering performance of this plant is unsurpassed in my garden. Starts early, the first double to flower usually, alongside the 'Spring Magic' range, and gives its outstandingly spectacular performance for weeks. Parentage? Unknown as self-sown! Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets.
Aquilegia ex 1264 Pink variable	Pink variable: most flowers are frilly doubles but some are singles or stellatas
Aquilegia ex 1263 Pink pleated double	Pink pleated double
Aquilegia ex 1397 Stellata pink double	More double than the usual clematis-flowered stellata forms, but not as doubled as the Barlow type, is this rather alluring flower. Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets.
Aquilegia ex 1914 2-tone pink double	Another exciting hybrid this time of A. 'Elegance' x ? …where ? means I couldn't read the writing at harvest-time! Looks like there's yellow genes in there somewhere …Expect very variable offspring including golden leaved ones. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1233 Pink pompom double New for 2013 Sold out 2013	Gorgeous!
Aquilegia ex pink pompom double Sold out 2013	Note the white-green stem, this is a marbled pink, some selection can be made as soon as they germinate (don't waste the other seedlings though!). These marbled colours have white mixed in with the base colour to give unusual shades. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1915 Pink & white stripy open	Delicate colours, seedling from 613 hence the open petals. Sold out 2013
Aquilegia ex pink stellata-type double	Slightly doubled type of stellata. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex spiky pink double New for 2013 Sold out 2013	Like a pink feather duster!
Aquilegia ex 1632 Large pink stellata-type double New for 2013 Sold out 2013	From an apricot-pink & yellow double came this one that evidently has stellata in its genes! LARGE flower, big impact. White stripes with the pink.
Aquilegia ex darkish pink double New for 2013	Sorry about the battered flower. We had gales.
Aquilegia ex 1385 Dark pink Barlow type Sold out 2013	Isn't that captivating? Should come fairly true from seed.
Aquilegia ex Ruby doubles Ruby doubles, from several plants.
Aquilegia ex 869 Small crimson double New for 2013	Later flowers are small singles, very delicate. A seedling from my amazing red & yellow double.
Aquilegia ex 1877 Ruby double New for 2013	Very different. Longer spurs, this was from a pink double that also had the longer spurs.
Aquilegia ex 1116 Lilac double Sold out 2013	Extraordinary colour, lighter inside. Scented New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 905 Lilac double	New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 900a	Tall light blue double. 2010 I saw that my tallest plant in the border was this …and yet the label said '900 SHORT lilac stellata' Oops …looks like there were 2 seedlings and this flowered this year and almost took over the border with its height and floriferousness. Or should that be floriferocity?
Aquilegia ex 1597 Tiniest hint of blue pleated double New for 2013	No, I cannot see the hint in this pic, nor on the flowers this year (2102) but it had been there the previous season, just a fine blue shadowing.
Aquilegia ex 1518 Light marbled blue variable double	Light marbled blue variable double. The photo shows some of the variation: a sort of stellata form. Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets.
Aquilegia ex 479 Light marbled blue double New for 2013	Light marbled blue double.
Aquilegia ex 948 Barlow type of marbled blue double New for 2013	Marbled blue full double with green sepals
Aquilegia ex 1684 Barlow type of marbled blue double	Son of the above New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1965 Marbled blue double	Seedling from my slender white single. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1782 Marbled blue double	Came as 'tower Light Blue' but this is a darker shade than all its siblings. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 738 Marbled blue double	Marbled blue full double with green sepals. Like all marbled blues, even these dark colours may be selected as soon as they germinate, just discard any with purple in the leaf stem.
Aquilegia ex 1735 Denim? blue double	This colour I usually describe as 'denim' because the dark blue is mixed with white. Yet on this one it has NOT got a white-green stem but one with purple in, despite the greeny sepals. Mother plant was described to me as a 'lilac & white pleated double'. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 742 Good blue double	A particularly good shade of blue, very vibrant and extremely floriferous.
Aquilegia ex 1804 Good blue pleated double	A good shade of blue, strong self-sown plant. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1634 2-tone blue frilly double	Well scented, from a similar parent. 2' / 60-70cms New for 2013
Aquilegia ex blue pompom	New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1417 indigo double	Sorry, pic looks purple! New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1499 Indigo pompom double	Bound to be popular! New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1789 Indigo pompom double New for 2013	If a flower has at least 5 rows of petals (and 10 around in a circle) ie 50 petals minimum, I'm terming it a pompom form. Some of the very best pompoms may have up to 10 rows …100 petals!
Aquilegia ex 761 Purply-blue pleated double	New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1504 Purple double	Good purple colour in the popular pleated double form.
Aquilegia ex1866 Dark purple full double	Large flowers on a shorter plant, from a double, dark crimson flower that had yellow inside. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1743 2-tone purple double	Good purple colour and some scent. Yes, the flower looks single … New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 1791 2-tone purple pompom New for 2013 Sold out 2013	Has some scent. Came from a similar mother plant.
Aquilegia ex 1250 Black double	Hmmm …This started out as a bell-shaped single …when I took the photo, then later flowers were doubles, but I took no photo, sorry! Goodness knows what they were like …I don't remember. New for 2013
Aquilegia ex 791 Black double New for 2013	All these flowers that I call 'black' are actually the closest to black that you can get in an aquilegia. There are some variations in colour depth between different plants, but usually the photos show more variation than is actually there as it depends on conditions and environment when the photo was taken. The 'black' is usually deepest crimson (like the colour in 'William Guiness' but sometimes it seems to me that its deepest indigo.
Aquilegia ex 956 Black feather duster	Small flowers and rather different, like an elongated spiky Barlow and definitely feather-duster-like in shape. Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets. Sold out 2013
Aquilegia ex 616 Black double	Rich deep burgundy/black double Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets.
Aquilegia ex 13 Black double New for 2013	Great combination, black Aquilegia No 13 with white flowers of Sweet Cicely (seed also available, see my general seedlist ).
Aquilegia 2002 Black pleated double New for 2013	Surprise seedling from an apricot-pink & yellow mother plant! Whenever I use the word black I mean the deepest crimson that verges on black, although some may be slightly different shades and tones, they will all be satisfyingly dark, and very handsome. Cameras can never catch the depth of colour in these flowers …unless taken against a light background …then it can be overdone!

Now let's discover the current Touchwood range of seeds from BICOLOURED DOUBLES.

Here the second colour is always white (or creamy)
The table that follows this one, of the Connoisseur's Choice range, include many bicoloured plants with yellow as the second colour.

The list starts pinks, reds then blues, purples to black.

Aquilegia ex palest pink & white pleated double

New for 2013

Aquilegia: Palest pink and white pleated double

Palest pink and creamy white. From one described as 'creamy yellow' came these striking pleated doubles. I grew several and all were the same so hopefully you, too, should get a good proportion (or all) similar ones. Note the plant stems have little or no purple in them, and are more '2-tone' than 'bicoloured'. 1754 is lhs and 1756 rhs pic.

Aquilegia ex 1999

Pale pink & creamy hybrid, becoming double

A wonderful pale pink & creamy white with longish spurs than then produced double flowers. This is a hybrid of 'Elegant Ruby' x a pink & yellow double. Therefore the next, f2, generation will likely be very variable including golden leaved ones.

New for 2013

Aquilegia: Pale pink & creamy hybrid, becoming double

Aquilegia ex 1630

Pale pink & white hybrid, double

Sister to the above. This is a hybrid of 'Elegant Ruby' x a pink & yellow double. Therefore the next, f2, generation will likely be very variable including golden leaved ones.

New for 2013

Aquilegia: Pale pink & white hybrid, double

Aquilegia ex 1640

Pale pink & white double

Seedling from a pink & yellow double, selfed.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1837

Pale pink & white pleated double

A seedling from 'Strawberry Icecream' that is a lighter pink.

New for 2013

Aquilegia: Pale pink & white pleated double

Aquilegia ex 1378

Late pink & white double

Besides being generally enchanting, this plant has another big benefit, it flowers rather later than most vulgaris, so extends the season. Let's see what the offspring offer.

Aquilegia ex 1945

Pink & white pleated double

Seedling from aquilegia 'Flamboyant'

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1985

Pink & white full double

New for 2013

From a ruby & creamy yellow double came this showstopper!

See sister, below.

Aquilegia ex 1624

Pink & white pleated double

Sister to the above and looks far better than the photo shows!

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1984

Pink & white double

Part of my breeding programme, came 835 (pink & yellow double) selfed. You can see the creaminess to the 'white', and there's longer spurs.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1753

Pink & white full double

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1631

Pink & white double

Perhaps more of a 2-tone pink, it starts quite creamy. This is a hybrid seedling of 'Elegant Ruby' x a pink & yellow double, so expect interesting offspring including golden leaved ones.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1720

Pink & creamy white small double

Goodness knows the parent plant …I rescued this from my sales table because I couldn't bear to part with it!

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 875

Pink & white stripy double

New for 2013

Pink and white spiky quilled striped double.

Aquilegia ex 1223

stripy pink and white double

Loose stripy pink and white stellata-ish

Aquilegia ex 1329

Pink & white stripy loose stellata

Voluptuous variable variety, very valuable!

Aquilegia ex 1875

Pink & white stripy double

Oh dear no photo, anyway ex 'Devon Sunshine', a pink & yellow double from Plant World.

New for 2013

Well worth sowing even though there's no photo!

Aquilegia ex 1623 ruby & white pleated double

From a ruby & creamy double.

New for 2013

Aquilegia: Ruby and white pleated double

Aquilegia ex 1622
Ruby & white pleated double

Sister to the above, from a ruby & creamy double.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1759
Red and white double

New for 2013

This is a hybrid seedling of either 'Elegant Ruby' x ecalcarata OR 613 x ? yes, I muddled up the labels on 2 crosseds so it's one or the other!!!! Doesn't 'look' like either set of parents is likely, but that's aquilegias for you! I assume the next generation will guide me to know which cross it was!

Aquilegia ex 1642

Red & creamy double

New for 2013

Opening creamy yellow than aging just about white. This is a hybrid seedling of a 'William Guiness' double form x ecalcarata , let's find out what traits offspring have!

Note I also crossed the same mother with a pink & yellow double, which gave similar effect. Strange..see below

Aquilegia ex 1816

Red & creamy double

New for 2013

Opening creamy yellow than aging just about white. This is a hybrid seedling of a 'William Guiness' double form x a pink & yellow double , let's find out what traits offspring have!

I'm hoping for more yellow in some of the f2 generation.

Aquilegia ex 2006

Deepest ruby, creamy inside double

New for 2013

From an apricot pink & yellow double.

Aquilegia ex 1459

Crimson & white double

Crimson & white double.

Aquilegia ex 1259

Crimson & white double

Crimson & white double.

Aquilegia ex 1790

Ruby & white full double

New for 2013

Exceptional, and upward facing.

From ruby and creamy double.

Aquilegia ex 1161

Red & white striped tattydouble

New for 2013

Sold out 2013

Large, somewhat variable flowers, a seedling from'Flamboyant'.

Aquilegia ex 330

Ruby & white Barlowish

Complete with stripes!

Aquilegia ex Red & white stripy double

Enthralling.

Aquilegia ex 1700

Large blue and white double.

From a large blue & white double x red & white long-spurred, so expect surprises from these seeds!.

New for 2013

ex 1457

Blue and white double

Blue and white double.

Seedling from 'Flamboyant', so expect varied offspring.

Aquilegia ex 558

Large blue and white frilly double.

Large …Look at the size compared to my hand!

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1801

Blue and white double.

Self-sown!.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1777

Large blue & white double

New for 2013

These HUGE blooms started double then became single. Great buds!

Aquilegia ex 1766 Sold out 2013

Large blue and white stripy double.

From a friend's similarly blue striped plant.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 821

Indigo and white full double

Extraordinary, floriferous amazing indigo and white (starts creamy) double.

After 2 years of selling these seeds, I suddenly realised: it's indigo & white not blue & white!

Aquilegia ex 1633

Blue and white double

New for 2013

Blue and white double, starts creamy. It was a HUGE plant in it's first flowering year (2012) and wowed everyone who saw it.

Seedling from 821 (indigo & creamy double) x a pink & yellow double, so expect varied offspring.

MOST AMAZING

Aquilegia ex 1863

Indigo and white full double

Seedling from 821 (indigo & creamy double) x a pink & yellow double, so expect varied offspring.

Sister to the above. Both these look very like their mother plant, I expect more of the fathers pink & yellow genes will be apparent in the next generation.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1818

Indigo & white double

longer blades

Indigo and white double from my slender white single. Very different and exciting.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1149

Indigo & white frilly double

Doesn't look very double here, sorry it's a poor flower. It is scented.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1509

indigo & white double

New for 2013

Indigo and white double, ex 'Flamboyance'!

Slightly variable, a pleated double that may give stripy flowers.

Aquilegia ex 1618

Indigo & white double

From a pompom form.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1636

Indigo & white double

From a red & white double …let's hope for exciting variation from this one!

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1230 & 1843

Indigo & white full double

New for 2013

1230 & 1843 are both seedlings from supposedly 'Adelaide Addison', and the first flowers certainly looked like that wonderful cultivar (left). However later flowers were very full doubles (right) which I don't think is correct. Does anyone know?

Aquilegia ex 1861

Dark indigo & white pleated double

New for 2013

A little darker than 821, more an indigo-black colour, and has some stripiness on some flowers, see left.

Seedling from 821 (indigo & creamy double) x a pink & yellow double, so expect varied offspring.

Aquilegia ex 1741

Large indigo-purple & white double

Huge, open double flowers. From a large blue & white double x red & white long-spurred, so expect surprises from these seeds!

New for 2013

Aquilegia Ex 889

Unusual purple-blue & white double

Surprise seedling from a cream & apricot, and it's scented.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1030

Purple & white double

A sort-of Barlow flower, which always attracts a lot of attention.

Aquilegia ex 1654

Purple & creamy double

From a delicate black & white double.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1599

Purple-black double

Now THIS is special. A hybrid of 'William Guiness' double x A. ecalcarata (it gets that lovely curved flower stem from the later). The colour is slightly more purple than the black of 'William Guiness'. It will be interesting to see the varied f2 offspring.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex black, lighter inside, becoming double

New for 2013

From an apricot pink & yellow double came this surprise seedling. Early flowers were single, I've included a photo so you can see the lighter colour inside. May give very exciting offspring!

Aquilegia ex 998

Whiter-edged purple-black double

Aquilegia ex 1179

Delicate black & white double

From a large lilac & white double.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1005

Black & white double

Varying from black & white to white-edged black ,double.

Aquilegia ex 1181

Black & white double

Sometimes stripy.

New for 2013

Now let's look at the stellata or star forms.

Also known as clematis-flowered.

Aquilegia ex stellata white

Stellata form, white. One of the unusual star or clematis-flowered forms. Do grow them in your garden and amaze your friends. 'Can those REALLY be aquilegias??!!' YES!!!

Aquilegia ex 2054

white stellata-variable

New for 2013

Not always a stellata form, see the spurs on the photo. Lost the label so I don't know the parent plant!

Aquilegia ex 1494

Stellata grey-white

Well not exactly grey but a greeny creamy white that isn't as bright at the usual white sort. Has a special charm, due, I think, to the long curved stem from which the flower hangs. Mother plant was an unusual lilac double.

Aquilegia ex 2013

White not-stellata!

New for 2013

Well, I've put this with the stellatas, as that's the shape, but look, it has spurs on the flowers! Mother plant was a marbled blue Barlow type. Let's find out what the offspring look like.

Aquilegia ex 1740

Pink variable clematis flowered

From 'Flamboyant'

New for 2013

Aquilegia: Pink variable clematis flowered

Aquilegia ex 1687

Stellata creamy pink

Very special.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1674

Ruby stellata

From 999, an unusual white-edged flower with long drooping blades.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 962

Small ruby clematis-flowered type

New for 2013

Not really a stellata form, see the spurs on the photo. But this fits in best here rather than elsewhere. I like using the term 'clematis-flowered because these look like some sorts of clematis rather than the huge wise hybrids!

Small flowers.

Aquilegia ex 1315

ruby stellata

Love that curved flower stem!

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1255

Unusual crimson becoming stellata

Dark colour, variable flowers, came from a 'wine stellata', so I assume it's come 'true', or close to it.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 2019

Ruby stellata

From a creamy pink stellata, like 1687

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 671

Stellata light marbled blue

New for 2013

Very special.

Stellata s usually come true from seed, as there are no spurs and that means no nectar and so no bees to cross-pollinate.

Aquilegia ex 1620

White-edged stellata variable

Rather variable flowers, and I love the white edges.

From a similar parent plant

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1787

Stellata blue, possibly variable

Seedling from 613

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 2061

Stellata indigo

New for 2013

Seedling from 'Apple Blossom'.

Aquilegia ex2119

Stellata indigo-purple

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex1321

Stellata purple

From an darkish pink A. ecalcarata hybrid that looked rather like a Barlow shape.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex stellata black

Great impact.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1345

Stellata pink & white

Well, the first flowers were stellata forms, but then some sprouted spurs. Goodness knows what the parent was …the label had snapped!

Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets

Aquilegia ex2094

Large pale pinky yellow variable stellata/ long spurred

I assume these forms (& see next entries) are hybrids of long spurred sorts with stellatas. In that case stellata shouldn't be used as a form, so I will use it here in a descriptive sense only! This is a seedling from 1015

New for 2013

Aquilegia: Large pale pinky yellow variable stellata, long spurred

Aquilegia ex 1015

Stellata type, HUGE pink flowers

Sold out 2013

Stellata form, HUGE pink flowers on a tall plant: 4-5'.

Aquilegia: Stellata type, huge pink flowers

At least that's what it was in it's first year of flowering because in its second year things changed to become very variable. Alongside the stellata form was deformed ones and (best of the lot) large longish spurred pink and yellow striped flowers.I assume these forms (see next entries) are hybrids of long spurred sorts with stellatas.Can't wait to see the next generation!

Aquilegia ex 1099

Peachy-pink stellata type

Peachy-pink stellata. Well that was what it was in its 1st year (right) but this year (2010) its been variable with many flowers opening out to a peachy-pink and yellow long spurred type (left)

The final sorts in this section are the ones with golden or variegated leaves.

Aquilegia ex 1942

Pink, gold leaf

Gold leaf.

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 929

(and other)

Gold leaf, elegant deepest ruby almost black flower. (pic right)
It's hard to see how this differs from 'Elegance' (pic below) …until you see them together.

Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets.

Aquilegia: Gold leaf, elegant deepest ruby almost black flower

Bred at Touchwood

Aquilegia ex gold leaf

Elegant indigo-purple

Gold leaf, elegant indigo-purple flower.

Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets.

Aquilegia ex 1613 ex gold leaf

Elegant purple

Gold leaf, Sorry about the poor pic.

New for 2013

Aquilegia: Elegant purple with golden leaf

Aquilegia ex 1524

Gold leaf marbled pink double.

Gold leaf,

Hint of marbled pink double.

Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets.

Aquilegia ex 920

Gold leaf marbled blue

Gold leaf marbled blue becoming double.

Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets.

Aquilegia ex Lil's gold leaf blue & white

Gold leaf

I've some spare seed of this from a friend, so you've also got the chance to try it. Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets.

Blue & white

Aquilegia ex 1167

Variegated leaf, light pink

Variegated leaf

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 729

Variegated purple stellata

Variegated leaf

New for 2013

Aquilegia ex 1305

Variegated white double

Variegated leaf. Well, last year this was a hint of a tint of pink double, but I took no photo. This year I'd definitely call it a white pleated double. I cannot see any hint of pink!

Sort of new for 2013

Aquilegia ex 898

Variegated indigo frilly double.

Variegated leaf, indigo frilly double.

Last year's seeds, so double-sized packets.

~ Aquilegiachatlist

Remaining seeds from the seed exchange.
Monies raised will go to help run next year's exchange.

Spare seeds from the email interest group's seed exchange. Any monies raised helps to fund the exchange by contributing to postage and packaging costs.

Just order as: aquilegiachatlist and the description given below. If you don't say aquilegiachatlist then I won't be able to find them! Choose from these:
A. vulgaris light blue;purple double;purple & white;'creamy white & soft lilac tall long-spurred;mauve & yellow tall long-spurred;early yellow tall long-spurred;maroon & white medium tall long-spurred;Mix 1;Mix 2

OR CHOOSE 10 for '10 incl postage. It should be the ones listed and other donations (not listed, as Touchwood lists them above) …you'll have to be surprised!

Carrie, Just a quick note to let you know that I received my seed order last week and promptly got them stratified this past weekend. Thanks again for offering these seeds and dealing with my order in a prompt and efficient manner. I look forward to seeing the outcome of this purchase in 2011. Best regards, Jonathan Thompson, Canada'Dear Carrie, you have done it again. You have infected me with the severest form of aquilegia fever. Here is my order for this year. A. Volkenborn, Germany. 'Coming to your website is always a feast for the eyes especially right now in the dead of winter. Blessings and thanks,'Maureen Smith, Ontario, Canada 'A big thank you for the wonderful aquilegias that we have in our garden now following the acquisition of your seeds last year. They are quite splendid and thriving in spite of the weather and the North Yorkshire climate. Kindest regards, Mike Holden. 2012 I was so overwhelmed by those exiting aquilegias you sell, that I ordered almost all just double ones. However I overlooked those more elegant ones, singles and maybe fragrants as well. I felt very sad, because I thought that I had to wait another year to make a new order. And then to wait another year to see them in bloom. That's much too long. So I decided to make another order this year. ;-) Reinhard Oberleitner, Austria


Connoisseurs' Choice... of doubles with yellow in them. Lots of new ones for 2013!
I've started collecting double forms of red and yellow American types and I've now been granted National Plant Collection status from Plant Heritage to cover all these taxa.'I don't think you're yet likely to see anything else like them!''However, if you DO know of others, please let me know, I want to increase my gene bank as much as possible. Thank you.'All seeds are £2 a packet, reductions for 6 or more packets.
ex 1040	Yellow double
ex 1018 Yellow double	Yellow double. The first year from seed this was only 15" tall …now it's normal size. Why does this happen ….could it be that the pots I re-use had contained plants that had been sprayed with something that keeps them compact? Is that possible …anyone know?
ex 2109 Yellow double Sold out 2013	Yellow double, seedling from 1050. New for 2013
ex 1765 Yellow full double	Hybrid of a large blue & white double x a pink & yellow double, expect exciting variations in the offspring! New for 2013
ex 911 Light yellow double, blushed	Light yellow double with blushed spurs.
ex 1639 Small blushed yellow double New for 2013	From 1061 pink & yellow double comes this delightful character. Big enough (and on tallish plants, about 1m) to make a good impact in the garden, these are also dainty enough for me to use as a beautiful corsage …together with singles of a similar size and hues.
ex 1532 Blushed yellow double	New for 2013
ex 1508 Blushed yellow double	As seen on TV! S4C Bwy yn yr Ardd, June 2012 LINK TO YOUTUBE VERSION. It's in Welsh, there's a subtitle button to press to get English written captions.
ex 1904 Blushed strong yellow double New for 2013	Hybrid of A. chrysantha x pink & yellow double.
ex 1991 Large blushed yellow double New for 2013	Hybrid of A. chrysantha x pink & yellow double.
ex 1281 Pink & creamy double New for 2013	Lovely pink and creamy yellow double, the cream ages nearly white.'Expect some offspring to be more yellow as this is a hybrid of an apricot-pink & yellow double x a pink and yellow large double.
ex 1188 Purply-pink & creamy double	Very light purply pink and creamy yellow double.
ex 1751 Lilac & apricotty large double	From a double pink long spurred. Very special and such unusual shades that I'm putting it here. New for 2013
ex 828 Apricot pink full double	Apricot pink full double, tending to become more pink as it ages.
ex 1039 Peachy double	Peachy (yellow with pink) double. Also has some single flowers later.
ex 1629 Pink & sunburnt yellow double	A seedling from a red & yellow double, unusual colours, deepened by the effect of the sun. Starting as doubles, it then became singles. New for 2013
ex 775 Dark pink shading to apricot full double	Dark pink shading to apricot full double …the apricottyness doesn't show well in the photo …sorry.
ex 691 Red shading to apricot double	Red shading to apricot double, an absolutely stunning showstopper plant, in glorious flower for weeks (if not months) right outside my front door. 4' tall'so appreciates support. This is a seedling from my amazing red & yellow hybrid (see below).
ex 1779 Pinky peach double	'Whoops no photo, seedling of an orange & yellow long-spurred New for 2013	Rather like the above 691
ex 1117 Cerise pink double New for 2013	Smaller flowers, that start as beautifully formed doubles then late flowers are rather nice singles. From a red & yellow double.
ex 1905 Pale pink & pale yellow double	Large. Seedling from A. chrysantha x pink & yellow double. New for 2013
ex 1886 Pale pink & pale yellow double	And it's scented. Seedling from 'Devon Sunshine'. New for 2013
ex 1781 Pinky & yellow double	Aren't Aquilegias wonderful! Here's another hybrid of A. 'Elegance' x ? …where ? means I couldn't read the writing at harvest-time! New for 2013
ex 1803 Lilac pink & creamy double	Sister to the above, another hybrid of A. 'Elegance' x ? There's bound to be interesting offspring and hopefully some with golden leaves. New for 2013
ex 556 Pink & light yellow double New for 2013 Sold out 2013	One of my earlier doubles with yellow in, sown 2006, first flowering in 2007 and still going strong. One of the reasons that I'm loving, and introducing, doubles with yellow in is that I find it hard to grow, flower and keep the single species sort that parent these plants. I loved these doubles when I first grew them but wasn't as excited as I should have been, until I realised (quite some years ago now) that one was on it's 3rd year of flowering, and that these hybrid doubles had LONGEVITY as well as the ability to grow in South Wales' conditions.
ex 1061 Pink and yellow double	Pink and yellow double. An absolutely stunning plant and so floriferous! Last year's seeds, so double sized packets.
ex 835 Pink and yellow double	Early flowering, and giving similar and other good offspring. Pink and yellow double.'Started single the first year …then WOW …when it became double it was an absolute show-stopper. In 2010 it was probably the first double pink/yellow aquilegia in flower …and nearly the last!
ex 1596 Pink and yellow double	Seedling from the above, selfed, so it was both mother and father to this one.	oh no! no pic, rather like the above
ex 1440 Pink & yellow double	Seedling from 1000, purple striped, so expect some surprises in the offspring! See this one in Touchwood's fairy garden.
ex 1919 Pink & yellow double	Seedling from huge blue & white double x pink & yellow double. Should get some great f2 plants! New for 2013
ex 1056 Dark peach & yellow double	This plant started off with stunning double flowers, although later ones were large singles. Last year's seeds, so double sized packets.
ex 1758 Orangey-red & yellow double	Ex 1061 pink & yellow double. New for 2013
ex 1711 Orange & yellow double	Ex 1061 pink & yellow double. New for 2013
ex 910 Orangey-red & yellow double Sold out 2013	These colours are sensational, shining out at you.
ex1681 Dark pink & yellow double	From a pink & yellow double, selfed. New for 2013
ex 1567 Pink & yellow double New for 2013	From red & yellow pompom x apricot pink & yellow double. This hybrid flowers at 5' tall (150-160cms) but unfortunately sets few seeds.
ex 1533 Orange-red & yellow double	From a red & yellow double.'I find, on average, that I get at least 20%of the seedlings coming up as 'doubles with yellow in' from the sorts of plants featured in this list. Some may have much larger percentages, and it will vary year-to-year depending on how busy the bumbles have been. New for 2013
ex 2089 Pink & creamy becoming double	Pink & creamy, becoming double. Exciting hybrid from 'Elegance' (presumably has ruby as well as black genes) x A. chrysantha. New for 2013
ex 1617 Deep pink & creamy double	The creamy yellow ages to white. This is interesting, 'William Guiness' x a pink & yellow double. Looks like there's yellow genes in there, even if the petals then whiten, so hopefully the next generation will show some really interesting traits including some with permanent yellow. New for 2013
ex 1729 Dark pink & yellow double	From 835, pink & yellow double, selfed. sorry no pic, it's a darker pink than 835 with is quite a light pink with the yellow. New for 2013	Dark pink & yellow double
ex 1966 Dark pink & yellow double	Note this is a hybrid, so expect variable results, the mother plant was A. chrysantha and the pollen plant a pink & yellow early double. New for 2013
ex 1610 Dark pink & yellow double	New for 2013
ex 1572 Orange-red & yellow double	From a red & yellow double. New for 2013
ex 553 Red & yellow double Sold out 2013	Bright red & yellow double Looks like a firework display!
ex 1054 Red and yellow double	Red and yellow full double
ex 590 Sold out 2013 Red double, yellow inside	Red and yellow full double
ex 1614 Cerise and yellow double Sold out 2013	From a pink & yellow double, selfed. Love it! New for 2013
ex 1865 Dark red and orange double	Should this have gone with the peach and apricot colours? From a darkest crimson double, with yellow inside. New for 2013
ex 1683 Cerise double, yellow inside	The yellow ages to white. This is a very special hybrid of 'Elegant Ruby' x a pink & yellow double. I'm hoping to get golden leaves in some of the next generation, do also let me know what your results from these, and others of my seed are. It's very helpful for my records. New for 2013
ex 1682 Maroon & warm yellow double	From 'Elegance' x chrysantha New for 2013 and bound to be popular …
ex 1016 Maroon-purple double, yellowy inside	Unusual shades, beautifully combined.
ex 1778 Large blue and creamy double.	I'm chasing after an elusive colour combination: blue and yellow doubles. This is how close I get, ones that open a creamy yellow, but ages to white. It may be that I am unable to get my dream, results to date suggest that the yellow may actually transfuse through the blue, turning it purple (I know yellow and blue made green at school, can anyone explain this?). This is a hybrid which will give vary varied offspring, from a large blue & white double x a red & white long-spurred.
ex 821 Indigo & creamy double	Extraordinary, floriferous amazing indigo and white (starts creamy) double. I've listed this above, and 821, but also feature them here as they open a good cream colour before fading to white.
ex 1633 Blue and white double MOST AMAZING New for 2013	Blue and white double, starts creamy. It was a HUGE plant in it's first flowering year (2012) and wowed everyone who saw it. Seedling from 821 (indigo & creamy double) x a pink & yellow double, so expect varied offspring.
ex 2017 Blue & creamy double	Largish flowers and longish spurs make this one very different as well as the special colouring. A hybrid of 'Elegance' x chrysantha.
ex 1299 Indigo & creamy yellow double	This startling colour combination is a clear winner in the garden. The indigo is rather purpley. Definitely desirable. This aquilegia and the few following ones are incredible and incomparable flowers that are the culmination so far of my breeding program to combine yellow with other colours in double forms. Prepared to be amazed, and very in awe.
ex 1727 Purple & yellow double New for 2013	Whoh-ho, what have we here? From a huge blue & white double x pink & yellow double which had long spurs. Will offspring be the same? No. Will offspring be better? Hard to imagine, but, yes some may very well be, that's what makes growing aquilegias so exciting!
ex 1557 Purple & warm yellow double	From a red & yellow double. Wasn't sure where to slot this one, inserted here because of the purple rather than the yellow! New for 2013
ex 1647 Purple & yellow double	From a yellow double! Thank you, Mrs Bumble!! New for 2013
ex 1722 Purple & yellow double	From a blue & white double x pink & yellow long-spurred. New for 2013
ex 1858 Purple & lightish yellow full double New for 2013	With a choice like these, sometimes you just have to take out a loan or remortgage to buy all that you desire. Cutting back on your order is counterproductive and illogical. Think …buy loads now and not only will they flower and reward you next year and next year and next year …but also these plants will self sow, and cross pollinate and re-combine and produce ever more delightful offspring to keep you happy all your life. Mind you, you might need another mortgage again later …to buy a bigger garden (and hope attached house is also worthy)
ex 1776 Deep purple & creamy yellow double New for 2013	Starts creamy yellow and ages creamy. A seedling from 'William Guiness' double x ecalcarata.
ex 1649 Deep purple & creamy double New for 2013	Starts creamy and ages white. A seedling from 'William Guiness' double x pink & yellow double.
ex 1648 Black & creamy yellow double	Starts creamy yellow and ages creamy. A seedling from 'William Guiness' double x pink & yellow double. The dark colour is just slightly more red than 'William Guiness'. New for 2013
ex 1686 Burgundy-black & yellow double Sold out 2013	From a red & yellow double. New for 2013
ex 1444 Burgundy-black & yellow double	Almost black with yellow. Awesome. New for 2013
ex 855 Burgundy & yellow double	One of my absolutely favourite colour combinations, the yellow colouring is inside on the inner faces of the petals. New for 2013
ex 1998 Nearly black, yellowy inside	In 2012, its first year of flowering, early flowers were singles. Expect some really good offspring from this hybrid of 'Elegance' x chrysantha. New for 2013
ex 1358 Black & creamy double	Like many of these sensational colour blends, the depth of the yellow colour as the bud opens is the most dramatic, with a gradual fading to a creamy shade.
ex1307 Black & creamy double	Isn't that phenomenal?
Now let's have some mixes of these special doubles with yellow …only from Touchwood. Sorry, understandably, these do NOT qualify for the discount offered on other Touchwood mixes of buy 8 get 1 free.
Shooting Stars Mix Touchwood yellow doubles from 10 parents	Yellow doubles mix.
Dragon's Breath Mix from 10 parents	From the land of dragons, comes seed from the remarkable collection of red & yellow doubles at Touchwood. To get an idea of the range of flowers included in this mix, see the ones pictured above as red & yellow doubles. Having NOTHING to do with aquilegias, here's a link to WALKING the DRAGON , an article I first wrote for a family newsletter about a special walk here in Wales.
VOLCANO!	'Volcano!' Mix from Touchwood. Doubles with yellow in, including yellow doubles & apricotty ones. The photo well shows what my new aquilegia hybrid national plant collection is all about. Spectacular, aren't they?
Touchwood 'Sunrise Surprises'	Seed from all sorts of pink and yellow doubles including the blushed yellow ones. Pink & yellow doubles mixed New for 2013
Touchwood '??? Mix' Blue / indigo & (usually creamy) yellow doubles mixed New for 2013	Will you help me choose a name for this mix? Do you prefer 'Blue Moon' or 'Mystic Moonlight'? Or do you have a suggestion or two to offer? The blues and indigos, currently, are ones that open creamy yellow and ages lighter.
Touchwood '??? Mix' Purple & yellow doubles mix New for 2013	Will you help me choose a name for this mix? Do you prefer 'Crown Jewels', 'Emperor's Glory', 'Magic & Mystery' 'Merlin's Delight', 'Touchwood Treasures' 'Sultan's delights/secrets/specials/glory/ selection/ daydreams' 'oo la la!', 'Dancing girls', 'Frivolity & Fun' 'Wizard's Delight', or 'Merlin's Magic'? Or do you have a suggestion or two to offer that captures the rich colour mix? These and the next mix look rather similar. And, yes, it IS difficult to separate some purples from 'blacks', but generally to the eye (rather than camera) in daylight, these are more purple, and 'Night Lights' are darker.
Touchwood 'Night Lights' 'Black' & yellow doubles mixed New for 2013	Burgundy / black & yellow doubles. Seed from those closest to black that I can get with yellow accompanying it. Sometimes the yellow fades to creamy with maturity of the individual flower.
Touchwood 'Black & Bruises!' 'Black' / blue / purple & yellow doubles mixed New for 2013	What beautiful colours bruises go after some days, not just 'black & blue' but rich purples, burgundies and yellows. I think that the name of this mix (of the 3 above mixes) captures the striking colour effects of old bruises, without having to undergo the original pain!
Dear Carrie, Please could I thank you for the seeds that you sent me last year. The germination rate was exceptional, much better than some of the larger commercial seed merchants.I have been most impressed with the Stellata mix. Although a simple flower, the range of colours has been tremendous. Out of all the aquilegias these seem to arouse the visitors curiosity more than any other, although all the others that you sent me are just as beautiful. What I am finding most interesting is the fact that I am finding two types of flower on many plants i.e Doubles with pom poms, doubles with stellata. Every day is an adventure in the garden, just when you think you have seen them all, you find another one even more striking hidden away. Once again many thanks for the enjoyment you have given me with your seeds. Yours Very Sincerely, Jim Forshaw, Lancashire May 2008 Such an appealing flower. I remember the first time I noticed a columbine when I started gardening. I was enchanted with this mystery plant. I didn't want to know it's name because I was afraid it would lose it's allure. It has lost the mystery but I love it even more. Valerie Gillman Michigan USA They are normally thought of being short-lived I can assure you of this: there's one old, propably a Vulgaris cultivar growing in my garden in the same place, and it's the same root, not off-sets, for about 45 years! Planted by my late mother, I have a picture of me with mother beside the Aquilegia when I was about 4-5 years old and it's still there, same place flowering each year. Reijo Sodergren, Finland How will you know if you've arrived in Heaven? You will suddenly be walking through endless fields of Aquilegias! :-) Aidan Tagg, Worcs

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AQUILEGIA SEED-LIST 2013

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TOUCHWOOD AQUILEGIA SEED-LIST 2013

Seed from the amazing National Plant Collections® of Aquilegia vulgaris cultivars and Aquilegia hybrids, here in Swansea. Singles, doubles, bicolours, coloured leaves and scented forms.

SCROLL DOWN FOR ALL AQUILEGIA LISTS, or use links below

There are 4 AQUILEGIA SEED PAGES to visit using these links

TO ORDER:

Aquilegia Mixes

Species and Named Cultivars

Described forms

Connoisseurs' Choice...

10 of the best for 10

10 packets from the Aquilegiachatlist £10

Last year's seeds

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AQUILEGIA SEED-LIST 2013