Aquilegia ‘Winky Purple-White’
Blooming Time
Exposure
‘Winky Purple-White’ Columbine is a vigorous grower with a bushy uniform habit, bearing delicate green foliage and refreshing purple upward-facing flowers with white centered cups. This plant will self-seed and spread under the proper conditions, forming moderate sized clumps, great along borders, in containers or in naturalized settings.
Details
Hardiness Zone:
Blossom Color:
Violet to Purple
Growth Habit:
Clump Forming
Max Height:
1½'
Texture:
Recommended Spacing:
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Special Characteristics
Features
A vigorous grower with a bushy uniform habit, bearing delicate green foliage and refreshing purple upward-facing flowers with white-centered cups. Self-seeds and spreads under proper conditions.
Landscape Value
Great along borders, in containers or in naturalized settings.
Care
Watering:
'Winky Purple-White' Columbine is moderately drought tolerant but benefits from occasional watering, to maintain soil in a moist but not wet condition, during the summer months.
Fertilizing:
'Winky Purple-White' Columbine is a moderate feeder, benefiting from a couple of annual applications of slow release fertilizer. A spring application of a 3-1-2 ratio (such as a 15-5-10) can be applied at a rate of about 10 pounds per 1000 square feet, and during early fall, an application of a 2-1-2 ratio (such as a 10-5-10) can be applied to encourage root development and cold hardiness.
Pruning:
'Winky Purple-White' Columbine should be enjoyed all winter long, then, during early April before it begins to grow again, it should be pruned or mowed back to ground level.