Sonja

It's just something filled and pink. The plain purple one in the other pic is looking like natural Aquilegia vulgaris, but they are all from the same bag mix. There was once an other bag mix that got many exots and odd hybrids, much smaler, pointier and with lots of warm colours, but most are now from a speciality mix that is all old farmer garden breeds that will just revert to regional occuring nominate species traits in a few years in case of jumping fence and finding suitable habitat. It is all A vulgaris, A. alpina and A. atrata based varieties cultivating natures errors like filled blossoms and albinism , hardy and comperably suited to our pollinators . I thought all those burgundy to fleshcolour ones would have A. atrata parentage or is it just some form of melanism?
BTW I love all natural looking Aquilegias much more than filled flower forms from yard mixes but my sister in law is just mad about her filled ones... if I document her garden I better get a few good shots of those in.

I am just no big fan of filled blossoms. About everything looks alike with it.
The Nora Barlow Akelei may be a famous classic an named after a fascinating lady and come in a pretty colour, but in the end it looks like a tiny Dahlia on a long steem, or some kind of misshappen large Geum, not at all like a Columbine with it's specific charms.

No, they most roses look nice enough and they got unique great smells often, tea roses with their elegantly wraped pointy lose petals all around as well as the shrubby cottage sorts with the cute knobby little heads dotting the branch. They are already not quite natural but they are still attracting critters. Of course I do not hate any rose, I only diskike to propagate breeds that got very odd overfilled heads so you think it is a peony with thorns. They usually got a weird jiz from the weight of the bushels of flower heads like they where fruits already, in the worst case the owner needs to support the branches, beers and butterflies scramble about to find access to the strong smelling nectar but the maze is to tight. Then the strong rosechaffer digs it's messy way through, and then the yard owner hates the poor beetle. But nature had noticably an other plan for the rose to evolve anyway.
No, I do not care a lot myself for extemely showy breeds with cabbage rose orgin. It is like with those poor mallards wearing a grown on hairpiece like a human from Mozarts time or run flightless upright like little penguins, or doves than can barely walk from the amount of locks and fans, showier than a displaying bustard even as they relax and sleep, slow goldfish that look like jelly fish or drifting foil bags from afar from all the veils on the fins, or very smal cats and dogs with O-legs and strange shortened faces like they fell on their snout and survived somehow. I generally do not enjoy the concept of encouraging this. If you want to improve an ornamental yard rose, make it so that it it feeds the bees and/or develpos tasty hips, needs little work and the looks start not to border on tacky, and people should vote then as wisely as possible with their purse. Unfortunately plant sales people are as bad as car sales people or worse. I fall frequently for all sorts of crappy stuff recomendet. It is not easy to be a consumer these days, especially if you want as natural as possible things, old breeds, native ones, or such you can propagate easyly yourself. I am glad I am not in the need much ornamentals as our yard is rather smal anyway and the urban ow food producing our thing. My sister in law got many roses. Most of them are pretty and survive without to much help. The others she plants in and tries to treat as all others, and two seasons later or so they are gone again. Now and then she prefers things with showier looks than natural, or exots not suited to the climate. That lemon tree goes to the nursery in winter where she pays it's rental space.... but if she likes the little luxury, why not? It smells and looks good and she knows the peel for her cake is untreated for sure. As for the aquilegias, I bought that mix a few years ago intentionally for her, to avoid asian and new world wildflowers again as she said columbines get sparse somehow. Somehow it escaped me on the package there where all the filled classics in it too, but the very dark filled ones already took care of itself. No single one to be found any more.