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AQUILEGIA 'Music Mix'( MUSIC SERIES)
Columbine, Music Mix Columbine
The large flowers of ‘Music Mix’ columbine, standing above vigorous, compact plants, are colored in several striking combinations, with large petals in one color, smaller petals in a different color. This hardy clump-forming perennial grows from small slender woody rhizomes (underground lateral stems). It offers clusters of rich gray-green scalloped leaves that appear along slender three-parted branches.
The big blooms of 'Music Mix' have five large outer petals/sepals that splay outwards and five long tubular spurred inner petals flare at the mouth. The color combinations include yellow and white, red and white, red and yellow, and blue and white. The many flower buds open at different times, prolonging bloom from late spring into summer.
These columbines grow and flower best in full sun to partial shade and many soils but prefer evenly moist, organic-rich soil with good drainage. Like most columbines, the plants tend to decline slowly and die after a few years. However, this is rarely a disappointment because they reseed themselves almost to the point of weediness, and new plants replace the old. The leaves often become disfigured in summer by the trailing marks of leaf miners.
Enjoy this colorful heavy-flowering columbine in any partially shaded border. It is wise to plant it among other ornamentals that offer later color because once it has stopped flowering it has little visual appeal.
8 - 1
3 - 8
A2, A3, 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Perennial
Full Sun, Partial Sun
15"-18" / 38.1cm - 45.7cm
12"-18" / 30.5cm - 45.7cm
Late Spring, Early Summer, Summer
Hybrid Origin
Acidic, Neutral, Alkaline
Well Drained
Clay, Loam
Medium
Average Water
Clump-Forming
Spring, Summer
Showy
White, Yellow, Red, Pink, Blue Violet
Bicolor
Green, Brown
Gray Green
No
Single
Fine
Matte
Container, Cutflower, Mixed Border, Wildflower
Sometimes
Hummingbirds
Yes
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