Aquilegia aka Granny's bonnets in our garden

It seemed kind of appropriate today: http://365project.org/quietpurplehaze/365/2013-05-12
although I never saw my grandmother in a bonnet - smart hats with a hat pin, yes!

[Beryl Lloyd]

Beautiful capture --beaten me again --mine are not quite in flower yet !

[Hazel]

@beryl

Thank you and sorry Beryl, I'm not consciously trying to beat you to everything!

[Rosie Kind]

I have some in flower but they are not a particularly pretty colour - very pale pink almost white. This is lovely Hazel. I shall have to get some nicer coloured ones for next year I think

[Gerry]

fav Hazel and a stunning colour

[Julie Duncan]

Beautiful, translucent look to that flower!

[Beryl Lloyd]

@quietpurplehaze He he !! never mind --at least I know mine are on the way as well !!

[Christine]

Great lighting.

[Paula W]

I love these and their name is so apt. Ours are fully out yet either. My grandmother used to wear a hat every time she went out and had a great selection but I never saw her in a bonnet either.

[Lesley]

Lovely colour,

[Karin Hirsch]

This is so lovely, I have no blue ones unfortunately

[Pyrrhula]

You beat us to. And weather is n`t helping either .
Beautiful capture of the flower and that great light

[Hazel]

@paulaw

I remember my grandmother wearing a formal hat with the hat pin sitting in a deckchair on the beach!

[Hazel]

@rosiekind

I'd give you seed if I could as we have them in 4 or 5 different colours and they've been spreading like wildfire.

[Hazel]

@pyrrhula

Thank you. They've just come out the last few days. (And they always finish up covered in greenfly!)

[Darren Juden]

Great name for these flowers - not seen them before, so thanks for sharing!