Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Help to identify a flower?


Mystery flower, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

We found this flower in Helsinki, on the Malminkartano hill, and have no idea what it is. Anyone have ideas? Maybe it has escaped from a nearby garden.

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5 comments:

John Taylor said...

That's is a Columbine the genus is Aquilegia

Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Anonymous said...

John is right. You find this Aquilegia in a range of colors, from white over yellow and all red shades up do a dark blue.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Juha Haataja said...

Thanks for such a fast identification. Indeed.

In Finnish this is "akileija", and I have read the name in some books but never did know what kind of flower it is.

Thursday, June 17, 2010
Anonymous said...

Juha,

If you like the flower, it's among the easiest to grow. Just take the seeds from a dried flower head and place one in each 1cm deep hole you make with a thin skewer. I promise you that EVERY single seed will sprout.

Jim

Friday, June 18, 2010
Juha Haataja said...

We were wondering that if you take seeds from a plant will the new flowers look like the original one, or perhaps quite different?

Saturday, June 19, 2010

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