Aquilegia with Tulips: Aquilegia 'William Guiness' with Tulipa 'Queen of Night'
In the herbaceous border aquilegia takes on a different role.
The change in scale reassigns the aquilegia to the chorus of the planting, where the sunlight transforms it into an incandescent veil of spidery stems and delicate blackcurrant flowers with white centres.
As they fade, cut the flowering stems of the aquilegia to the ground and it will regenerate with fresh new leaves that will hide the dying tulip foliage.
