Aquilegia viridiflora 'Chocolate Soldier'

Aquilegias are a charming, old-fashioned cottage garden plant with bonnet-shaped flowers, often two-tone and with long graceful spurs. Flowering in early summer, they fill the seasonal gap between the last of the spring bulbs and the first of the summer flowers. Self-sown aquilegias look wonderful naturalised amongst shrubs and roses. However, the plants interbreed freely and seedlings rarely resemble the parents. To keep chosen varieties pure, prevent self-seeding by deadheading shortly after flowering.

Aquilegia viridiflora 'Chocolate Soldier' is an unusual aquilegia, bearing delicate, nodding, chocolate-brown blooms in late-spring. A compact aquilegia, it's ideal for growing in a mixed border or rockery.

Grow Aquilegia viridiflora 'Chocolate Soldier' in moist but well-drained soil in full sun.