Alstroemeria psittacina
Featured plant of August 2005 |
This unusual species Alstromeria is a hardy deciduous perennial.
Umbrella shapped leaf heads appear in the Spring, followed by tall flower stems, great for cutting.
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Arisaema
Featured plant of April 2010 |
This is an interesting genus of unusual plants belonging to the aroid family.
Most are hardy species originate from North America, Japan, China and the Himalayas.
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Autumn Snowflakes
Featured plant of June 2006 |
These miniature bulbs have thin grass-like leaves.
Dainty white flowers appear above the foliage in the autumn on wiry thin stems.
A very nice bulb for small shady corners.
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Belamcanda |
Related to Iris, this perennial bears clusters of spotted orange flowers, followed by obvoid fruits that split to reveal black shiny seeds.
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Bletilla striata
Featured plant of July 2004 |
This hardy deciduous terrestrial orchid has lavender-purple flowers that look like miniature Catleya.
After several years, a large clump is formed and looks quite stunning when in flower.
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Blood Lily |
This winter growing bulb produces an inflorescence with bright red or white/green bracts that open up to reveal multiple stamens with bright yellow pollen.
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Calla Lily |
This is the calla lily of the florist trade.
The flowers are white, cream, yellow, orange, red, purple and even almost black.
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Daffodil
Featured plant of October 2004 |
A hardy spring bulb that can naturalise in lawns and under deciduous trees.
It wouldn't be Spring without Daffodils.
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Dahlia |
A tuberous deciduous perennial with flowers of various sizes and shapes, and available in white, yellow, orange, pink, red and purple.
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Egyptian Onion |
This unusual onion produces small bulbs at the end of the flowering stem and does not seem to set any seed.
Once large enough, the small bulbs can be detached and planted.
They will then grow to a new plant that will start producing more small bulbs in a year or two.
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English bluebells |
Hardy spring bulb with mainly blue flowers.
Plant with daffodils and snowdrops for a long spring display.
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Freesia |
This is a Spring flowering corm that produces fragrant flowers in a multitude of colours, from whites and yellows to reds and purples, and that make an exceppent long lasting cut flower.
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Gloriosa superba
Featured plant of August 2004 |
This tender deciduous perennial grows as a weak climbing vine.
The yellow/orange petals reflex upwards with a slight twist, giving a flame-like illusion to the flower.
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Hippeastrum
Featured plant of March 2005 |
This tender deciduous perennial bulb produces giant sized flowers around Christmas.
The flower colours range from white to red and all shades in between.
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Iris |
A popular genus of rhizomateous or bulbous perennials.
The six petaled flowers come in a variety of colours, some having two or more colours.
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Ivy Leaf Cyclamen |
Hardy long lived deciduous perennial has leaves with silver-green markings.
The purple / white flowers appear on long stalks above the leaves.
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Ixia |
Ixias have thin grass like leaves that grow from small corms.
It originates from South Africa.
The flowers appear briefly in spring, about the same time as Freesias.
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Jerusalem Artichoke
Featured plant of July 2006 |
Jerusalem artichoke is a perennial sunflower, the underground rhizomes is what is eaten.
It flowers in the Autumn and is worth growing just for the flowers.
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Kafir Lily |
The Kafir Lily is a bog plant that produces ref flowers in the Autumn, with a smaller flush in the Spring.
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Nerine |
This clump forming bulb flowers in autumn, when not many other plants are in flower.
Each bulb produces one flower stem that opens to about a dozen flowers.
An established clump looks stunning!
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Ornithogalum |
This bulb flowers over a long period in summer.
The white flowers open first from the bottom of the inflorescence and work their way to the top.
The leaves are thin and grass like.
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Parmianthe |
A large bulb from Peru that bears large, six segment flowers.
It is possibly extinct in the wild.
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Polygonatum |
This graceful plant grows a dark red arching stem with two rows of opposite leaves.
The white tubular flowers hang down singly or in pairs.
A perfect groundcover for a semi-shaded woodland area.
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Sandersonia
Featured plant of October 2007 |
This decisuous perennial produces delicate bell shapped flowers in the Summer. It survives as a V-shapped tuber in the Winter.
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Snowdrops |
This is the first "Spring" bulb to flower, often flowering at the start of Winter.
A bulb for the shady woodland garden, the soft white flowers adds a touch of magic to Winter, looking like snow dancing in the breeze.
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Sparaxis |
A tough corm native to South Africa that produces brightly coloured flowers in the spring.
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Stenomesson |
This spring bulb has a head of orange coloured tubular flowers in the spring.
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Sternbergia |
This easy to grow bulb is suitable for areas with hot dry summers.
The yellow crocus-like flowers appear in the autumn.
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Tigridia
Featured plant of February 2005 |
Summer growing bulb believed to be cultivated by the Aztecs over a thousand years ago.
The showy flowers only lasts one day but as one fades another is produced to take its place.
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Torch Ginger
Featured plant of August 2007 |
This is a relation of the table ginger and comes from South East Asia.
The flower buds are used as a spice in South East Asian cooking.
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Triteleia |
This small bulb from California produces an umbel of stary blue flowers towards the end of its growing season, around early Summer.
It naturalises easily and is also suitable for containers.
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Tuberous Begonia |
This much bred begonia produces the showiest flowers.
The "giants" grow flowers that are over 15cm across.
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Veltheimia |
This deciduous spring bulb from South Africa produces a receme of turbular flowers densely placed at the end of a long stalk.
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