One of my favorite columbines came to me from an HPS/MAG seed exchange many years ago. It was donated several years in a row by renowned gardener Charles Cresson, who stated that it "came from Malcolm Whipple's Long Island garden in the early 1980s. No information about origin before that". It comes true from seed (for several generations now), even though individual plants are short-lived. The name "Cap de rositier" (besides being improper French) doesn't appear anywhere on the web except on my website and in a book "Hatch's Perennials: Acanthus to Aurinia: Version 3.1". Is there a name for this variety that is more commonly used?
