| Description | A series of spurless Columbine with frilly double flowers. |
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| Pronunciation | (ack-wi-LEE-gee-a)(vul-GAH-ris) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Perennials Hardy |
| Hardiness Zone | (3)4-8 |
| Sunlight | full sun, best in moderate shade, partial shade |
| Moisture | average, to moist, most don't like dry |
| Soil & Site | average, moist, well drained in important |
| Flowers | double, frilly, reds blues, etc |
| Leaves | in groups of three (ternate), on long petioles, green to blue gray color |
| Maintenance | As the foliage gets shabby and leaf minors invade the leaves, cut back the plant. It will respond with fresh foliage and few flowers in the fall. Leaf minors won't kill the plant they just create yellow streaks in the leaves |
| Propagation | seed, respondes to cold treatment, 6-8 weeks in the frig |
| Cultivar Origin | The Barlow Columbine has been around since 1600's. In the 1980's Alan Blume named one Nora Barlow. Since we have Black, Blue, Rose, Green Apples, White, Bordeux and Christa Barlow. |
| Notes & Reference | #04-Herbaceous Perennial Plants (Allan Armitage), #108-Restoring American Gardens (Denise Wiles Adams), #176-Aquilegia (Robert Nord) |
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