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  • Allium
    • flavum subsp. tauricum Colour mix   CAG01781
      Allium flavum subsp. tauricum Colour mix
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A small easily grown evergreen species bearing pompom like flowers in a charming array of soft yellows, muted oranges and off whites. Forming tight clumps of dark glossy green to grey grassy leaves of varying height, it will happily grow in any well drained spot that is not too exposed. If your lucky it will even self seed providing further variations in colour and form.

  • Amaryllis
    • belladonna   CAG01045

      (Easter lily, Naked lady)
      Amaryllis belladonna
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A super tough South African that should need little introduction, though, where once its autumn spectacle was taken for granted through the South West it is now being increasingly displaced by fleeting makeover starlets.

      Clusters of large. flaring, funnel shaped flowers, pale pink and deepening with age, are carried atop sturdy, fleshy stems. The strappy, dark green leaves emerge after flowering from the necks of large, papery, brown bulbs that are typically somewhat exposed, adjusting to their preferred depth with the aid of contractile roots. Becoming deciduous with rising temperatures in spring and then requiring zero water over summer.

      Infallible in any soil, in any position except the densest shade. Usually takes several years to settle in and commence flowering for perpetuity.

      For me, nothing heralds more the imminent return of cooler weather and rain than the sight of fat buds thrusting naked from parched ground. I imagine it is the same joy that gardeners in cold regions feel on seeing the first hint of spring in a shoot emerging from snow.

    • belladonna Deep pink   CAG02331
  • Crocosmia
    • x crocosmiiflora ‘Emily McKenzie’   CAG00189
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A tough cormous evergreen perennial for light shade. Fans of tall, strappy, sword-like, bronze green foliage, with pale red stems, arise from clusters of Gladioli-like corms. It bears in late summer spikes of large orange starry, lily-like flowers with mahogany markings.
      A splendid and unusual perennial, a must for any keen gardener, quickly clumping.
      Rare.

      All crocosmias are wonderful plants and deserve to be more widely grown. They are particularly valued for their bright flowers that appear before the autumn flowers start and when many of the summer flowers are taking a bit of break.

  • Dioscorea
  • Ferraria
  • Freesia
    • laxa ‘Joan Evans’   CAG02305
      Freesia laxa ‘Joan Evans’
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A charming, small, winter growing South African bulb that makes tight clumps of pale green grass-like leaves and bears a profusion of small orchid like flowers on branching scapes.
      This form has white flowers with scarlet markings.

      Dormant over Summer and then in no need of water all that is demanded is good drainage and it should self seed happily, slowly forming colonies among low ground covers, between rocks, in a pot or used as an edging in no water Mediterranean gardens.

  • Gladiolus
  • Habranthus
    • tubispathus ‘Cupreus’   CAG02137
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A diminutive, albeit charming, bulb whose coppery goblets pop up randomly through the year, with or without their accompanying grassy leaves, most often just a few days after rain.

      Exceedingly easy to grow it has adapted to be predominantly winter growing here though in habitat around the Gulf of Mexico as well Argentina and Uruguay I would expect it to grow more in summer to coincide with rainfall. It should perform well, at least in a pot, from Albany to Townsville.

      Tolerant, maybe even fond, of short periods of drought and flood though freezing is likely bad. An excellent pot subject small and demure enough to be a companion to larger potted celebrities.

      Slow to vegatively increase but self sowing in good conditions and then after a few years can make quite a spectacle in mass flower.

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