nearly 'black': a different colour of aquilegia

I had a discovery moment of happiness when I spied this plant in our garden this morning. Our aquilegia are all semi-wild and we have 3 shades of pink, several of blue/purple and one white. Ray says they are promiscuous..... On a more sober note it could be Granny's morning (or mourning) bonnet?

[Beryl Lloyd]

Tell Ray they are not promiscuous but hybrids converting to their natural origins !!( & there endeth the lesson --sorry did not mean to preach !!)Mine are also converting back 7 are in different shades oblue, purples , nearly black & a beautiful white one ( The latter has not been promiscuous !! )hhehehe !!!

[Gena Pegg]

So not familiar with this at all...but loving it!! Is this dried or is this how it looks in the garden?

[Darren Juden]

Learning something every day :)

Glad it wasn't promiscuous!

[Mary]

Nice shot. Very interesting looking plant.

[Rohini Gupta]

Amazing plant, interesting to learn about it. Great shot.

[Paula W]

That's a very dramatic flower Hazel definitely a bit sombre, but makes a great shot.

[Rosie Kind]

Fabulous detail - I can see some bugs on it when viewed large. Hope they don't spoil it. Get the birds to do a bit of munching! LOL

[Hazel]

@eyesmile

That's how I picked the flower from the garden. You can see other colours here http://365project.org/quietpurplehaze/365/2013-05-15 and probably see why they are called Granny's bonnets! Thanks for stopping by!

[Hazel]

@rosiekind

Thanks, Rosie. I saw the bugs when I put the shot on the computer screen!

[Hazel]

@darrenboyj

Well I think it must have been!!!

[Hazel]

@mcmary @writingdays @paulaw

Thanks for your interest. Aquilegia have spread all over the garden.

[Hazel]

@beryl

Perhaps that's the plant meaning of promiscuous?! I'd like a yellow one now!!

[Bep]

Whal a lovely flower! I like the other colours as well.

[Pat Knowles]

I can see what you mean about Grannys Mourning hat!! I have never seen a dark coloured Aquilegia like this...very unusual Hazel!

[Ivan]

Nice image of this super flower.

[Claudiarob]

I like the picture and the piece of information that goes with it.

[Pyrrhula]

Wow, stunting color and a beautiful capture of this lovely flower

[Graham Thresher]

Great shot and commentary.

[Judith Greenwood]

Well whatever it is it's a fabulous colour!

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Cool shot. I love the color.

[Karin Hirsch]

Grat colour, wouldn't mind to have them in my garden promiscuous or not.

[Ness Santvoort]

I've never seen a granny bonnet this colour, fantastic, thanks for sharing

[Redfl83]

What a lovely surprise to get it looks super x

[Malc Bird]

Fabulous colour, not seen one like this - but we do have a fabulous yellow one (it's later flowering than the others)

[Hazel]

@malc

We've never had a yellow one (I saw one on Chelsesa on TV!). I found out today that this is called Black Barlow - mostly they are double ones but one for sale was single like this one.