If I were near, I'd certainly come looking for plants.
It isn't easy to find interesting cultivars of aquilegia around here. The garden centers and nurseries mostly sell newer, compact, very cultivated appearing varieties. They are pretty, but I like the big, tall, graceful, leggy columbines. Granny's Bonnet is indeed a great common name for them. A fine, old-fashion name for for a fine old-fashioned flower.
I hope to eventually develop natural woodland edge beds under the trees here. I picture native columbine canadensis, and perhaps some the native western species scattered here and there. It will take some time to build up the soil, which I intend to do by piling leaves in place in fall for a few years, and covering them to rot. I don't want to develop a garden that will require, once established, routine supplemental watering, so that is going to limit either what I plant, or how big an area I try this with. I have to keep reminding myself that although there are lots of trees here, this is not a little bottom along a creek. I get all excited and think goldenseal, black cohosh, blue cohosh, ginseng, bloodroot, toothwort, mayapple, white snakeroot, wood anemone, celandine poppies, galax, native vibirnums, etc.
Then I think about self-will run riot and look at the redbuds and native dogwoods struggling to survive in the absence of irrigation.
I had some bloodroot planted in a medicinal display garden at the old house, maeve. The flowers are so lovely. Do you make a tincture of it?