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What is this plant/flower PLEASE?

laura.j.forresterlaura.j.forrester Posts: 2
edited May 2020 in Problem solving
Hello folks,

Desperate for help here. Can anyone identify the plant here? It’s in my parents garden and they are wracking their brains trying to figure it out.

Any help much appreciated

Laura

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    edited May 2020
    Hi Laura, mystery solved, it's an Aquilegia.  :)
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • laura.j.forresterlaura.j.forrester Posts: 2
    Thank you very much Bob!!!
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    edited May 2020
    It looks like a hybrid between the wild form (which have only a single colour in the flower, usually purple, pink, white blue or red) and a cultivated variety.  If your parents collect and sow the seed as soon as the seed heads dry out and begin to open, they will have lots more next year and all of resulting plants can have different colours. :)
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Sunbonnet or grandmother's bonnet?
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    tuikowhai34 said:
    Sunbonnet or grandmother's bonnet?

    Those are common names for the same thing, Aquilegia.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Thanks Bob!  @BobTheGardener
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

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