Perennials: Columbines with babies while forming seeds!, 1 by Weezingreens

Weezingreens wrote:
Columbine do well in my USDA Zone 3 climate. We have cool soil and lots of rain, so they never die back in the summer. The smaller columbine (A. flabellata) bloom in the spring and do not bloom the rest of the summer. Their seed pods form fairly early. The taller varieties, such as McKana's Giant, bloom a bit later in the spring, but tend to keep blooming all summer. As Psilo says, maybe you have two varieties. I've had blooms on my flabellatas that are very tiny.