They were not first year plants, however, I wonder if the transplant shook
'em up a bit. They are big and healthy though.

I will be all over them next year when they first come up to see if I can
nip the little miners in the bud, so to speak.

Thank you for the information and link.
LeeAnne

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Don't know why they didin't bloom - perhaps too much nitrogen fertalizer.
Columbine self seed readily but the new plants don't boom the first year.
Maybe you transplanted first year plants? Columbine are long past thier
bloom here in SW Ohio. The "track" you see are cloumbine leaf miner.
They
won't kill you plants and here we don't ususaly see them until after they
bloom. There is no good treatment that I know of, and anything that might
work would have to be systemic. I would just clean up the folage as it
dies
and dispose of it. You can read more he
http://www.griffin.peachnet.edu/ggarden/jun2001p1.html