Has divided (2 ternate), soft, blue green leaves. Bears pendant, white or cream, ...Read Morescented, short spurred flowers which are sometimes tinted with a pinkish blue.
Flowers May-July
Likes a fertile, moist but well drained in full sun. It will cope with shade but does much better in sun.
It's a fairly short lived perennial which will sometimes self seed. It wasn't too keen on my heavy clay but it sometimes makes an appearance via the seeds of the original plant.
What is the scent like? What is the fragrance similar to? Is it light, honeysuckle-like? Or dianthus-like? Or something else?
Aquilegia fragrans is a medium size wild species of columbine which grows well here in my rock garden on a partshady position.
Herbaceous perennial from the Himalayas.
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