Aquilegia Mc Kana hybrid mix

Name: Aquilegia McKana Hybride - Ancolie
Brand: plant d'Avenir
SKU: pda620
Price: 5.9 EUR
Availability: InStock

€5,90

The Giant McKana Columbine is an ornamental flowering plant of incredible beauty, with flowers in a wide range of colors: white, pink, yellow, red, and blue.

Its deciduous foliage consists of compound leaves with fine leaflets measuring 1 to 4 cm long. The leaves are medium green with a slightly bluish tint.

Its long spurs, arranged alternately relative to the petals, create a unique visual effect, especially as they are often differently colored. The flowers may be white, red, pink, yellow, or blue.

Flowering occurs in clusters of 3 to 10 flowers, either solid-colored or bicolored, with a spread of up to 10 cm.

After pollination, the flowers develop into elongated follicles that taper to a point. When mature, the fruits dry out and split open, releasing numerous small brown seeds.

Flowering	April, May
Flower Color	Multicolor
Frost Tolerance	-20°C
Size	60cm H x 40cm W
Soil	Can handle: Light, humus-rich, moist soils. Ttolerates: calcareous soils. Prefers: clay-loam or stony soils.
Origin	Europe, America, Asia

pda620

€5,90

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🪴9x9 cm

🚂 Ships across EU
🌱 Grown in our nursery

🌻Colors and Contrast

💦 If planting during the spring, make sure to water the young plants - especially if the summer is tough. Once established, columbines are remarkably tough and will settle into almost any soil and climate.
💦💦 Excessive watering may cause root and crown rot.

✂️ Pruning the entire plant down to the ground in July after flowering will allow for the new foliage to burst back neatly.

🌳 5/6 plants per m² will create a dense display within the first year

🐛 Leaf miners and slugs can damage the leaves.

🪴 For container growing, use a substrate made of garden soil, coarse sand, and leaf compost.

This is an old hybrid variety developed in the 1950s. Horticulturists particularly appreciate it for its large bicolored flowers, created by the contrast between sepals and petals.

Aquilegia vulgaris is native to the entire Northern Hemisphere, belongs to the Ranunculaceae family.

The common Columbine forms a basal rosette of distinctive pale green foliage, from which rise sturdy stems topped with nodding cup-shaped flowers — single or double — in a spectacular range of colours.

Eagerly visited by pollinators, columbines cross-pollinate freely between varieties, producing self-sown seedlings that are often just as colourful and unique as their parents.

Fully hardy and remarkably easy to grow, Common Columbine thrives in moderately rich, moisture-retentive soil where its long, strong taproot can develop freely. In continental climates it adapts to most situations, including the dappled shade of a woodland edge, which beautifully sets off its delicate colours.

The striking variegation actually helps disguise leaf miner damage, which is a common affliction of columbine foliage a happy accident of its unusual looks.

The name is a nod to Irish folklore and its golden-green colouring, likely chosen by Jelitto as a marketing flourish. Beyond that, like many columbine selections, it probably emerged from careful observation of natural seedling variation rather than deliberate crossing — columbines being famously promiscuous self-seeders that throw up surprises on their own.

'Leprechaun Gold' was introduced by Jelitto Seeds, the respected German perennial seed house known for selecting and distributing unusual cultivars. The name and the variety are considered among the most treasured of variegated Aquilegias.