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This beautiful Columbine is native to the Swiss Alps and boasts stunning, nodding blue blooms which appear above tall, slender stems in May and June. This variable species will sometimes produce blue and white bicolour flowers. Aquilegia alpina is ideal for alpines and rockeries, garden borders and wildlife gardens as well as making an incredible cut flower. This elegant hardy perennial looks most effective grown in groups where it will seed about to create free colonies which will burst into colour amongst other perennials and grasses. Height: 80cm (31). Spread: 45cm (18).