The aquilegia looks suspiciously like one we used to have in our garden ... but I promise we didn't smuggle it back from Italy!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Walk in the Hills] Reference

Columbine, aquilegia ‘Magpie’ resembles an elaborate bonnet to be worn on special occasions for the more fashion forward among the fae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairies Part One « Fairegarden] Reference

Thanks so much for your offer about the foxglove and aquilegia seeds, we would love some :- I've emailed you about that and also about the Colinette hat pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [more stitch markers made] Reference

Columbine , aquilegia ‘Magpie’, another seed grown success that has shown itself to be true to seed , the babies have the dark hood and white center so charming in the shade garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Color in the Garden-GBDW Part Four « Fairegarden] Reference

We had rapid germination of some seeds, notably agapanthus and aquilegia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference

This was a long way from the Verey look, which depended on the soft tones of flowers such as alliums, geraniums, campanulas, clematis and aquilegia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

There is no need to descend to Godwottery, or even to know the difference between an aquilegia and an antirrhinum, in order to be enthralled by the ingenious and lovely permutations of shape, colour and texture – to say nothing of scent – which surround you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Try Anything Twice] Reference

I had reached eleven before his laughter finally dribbled to a halt, and three more (or should the aquilegia, a garden escapee, be allowed?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Letter of Mary]

Monica the Garden Faerie said this on July 3, 2010 at 1:02 pm | Reply i love your black garden, i’ve been thinking about doing a black and white garden for a long time and you gave me some good ideas, love the black aquilegia, those are quite striking along with the asiatics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denizens Of The Dark « Fairegarden] Reference

Our dear wild columbine, aquilegia canadensis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloom Days April 2008 « Fairegarden] Reference

Love the aquilegia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloom Days April 2008 « Fairegarden] Reference

(aquilegia), artemesia, ceanothus, rock rose (cistus), breath of heaven (coleonema), foxglove.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

Amongst herbaceous plants we have gentiana, aquilegia, anemone, rumex, primula, lilium, loutodon, ranunculus, &c. equally distributed in the Himalayas and in China, and even in aquatics the same resemblance may be traced, as in nelumbium, caladium &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

But what ha said, actually, was "un vasito de aquilla" por favor "and only I, with my latin reference (after all I was drilled in latin for four years in high school, all those endless amo, amas, amat, amamos, amatis, amant ... and so da capo al fine, disce puella latinae ...: -)) mistook a diminutive from aqua for a latin aquilegia = columbine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Retirement jitters... or ... does Mexico live up to your expectations?] Reference