Aquilegia caerulea | Crimson Star | Granny's Bonnet | Columbine Sarah Raven Which trees keep their leaves

Which trees keep their leaves in winter

Biennial | First year is leaf growth with flowering in the second year

A great flower for attracting butterflies and bees to your garden

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Discerning Japanese gardeners have been growing this fabulous plant for over 100 years and it is extensively used in gardens in the UK

Aquilegia caerulea | Crimson Star | Granny's Bonnet | Columbine Sarah Raven Which trees keep their leavesA beautiful crimson star shaped coloured Aquilegia with its delicate white centre petals, this garden favourite blooms for weeks in spring, rising their lovely little nodding heads above soft bluish green, ferny foliage. Another of our must have garden treasures! Perfect little doers under deciduous trees, where they self seed freely. This is a short lived perennial, but if you leave the seed heads on them, you'll have them forever. Great cut flowers