Ursel(fasciolatum x henryi) fas. contributes size, a huge cream lip and longpendulous sepals, hen. adds a multi-flowered habit, easy growth and yellow colours. The result is agood-natured plant with inflated yellow lips and hanging tepals of dark, twisted, caramel-speckledbronze. In time plants become multi-flowered and multi-nosed. FS............ £45.00Victoria(pubescens x fasciolatum) This inherits good colouring from pubescens.Attractive warm red-brown tepals shading to green with tufted red-hairs. The untwisted petals arebroad. The large flask-shaped lip is sulphur-cream fading to white with age. FS............ £55.00DIPCADIserotinumMy notes of 1972, when I first found this species in Southern Spain, say"looks like an orange-flowered bluebell with a green base". Spot on! An alpine house pan or a choicespot in a mild garden. April, but can flower 2 or 3 times a year with no regard for season............ £5.50DICHELOSTEMMAida-maia“The Californian Firecracker”. Tall, slightly twining stems crowned with aloose cluster of elongated hanging tubular bells. Each pendant 3cm bloom is a brilliant, vivid, shinyscarlet with a green mouth around cream anthers. One of the miracles of the bulb world. Each ... £0.60..............................................................................Per 10 bulbs £5.00multiflorumRoundtooth Ookow. A readily grown member of an under-rated genus,giving its best in a pot under frost-free cultivation, but fine outside in a well drained loam soil. Thismakes good sized, blue-violet flower balls containing 30-40 flowers each, in midsummer. ........... £2.50volubileWalnut-sized heads of candy-pink, heavy-textured flowers each on aclimbing stem that can reach up to 1m depending on support. It then dies away totally after flowering.A very unusual and attractive plant and one of the very few climbing bulbs! California. ................ £3.00EMPODIUMA small genus of the Hypoxidaceae from Southern Africa, related to both Hypoxis and Spiloxene. They makes smallcorms and star-shaped yellow flowers, which are often tinged green on the outside. Most of the species bloom in theautumn and make linear or lanceolate, pleated leaves after, or as, the flowers develop. Some are scented.plicatumBright yellow, starry flowers emerge from dry ground each Autumn with upto four, deeply pleated leaves. The flowers in this species are strongly scented. A native of clay orloam this likes a fertile well-drained soil, frost-free cultivation and good light. Naturally small...... £14.50ERANTHIShyemalis Schwefelglanz A bright sulphur yellow hyemalis form totally distinct. Flowers of pastel,sulphur-yellow rather than the acid lemon yellow of the normal form. Earlier than most with us. ... £9.00hyemalis Grünling This translates as Greenfinch (the bird) and has yellow petals striped onthe exterior, along their length with irregular lime-green bands. Very distinctive and appealing anddifferent from anything in the UK so far and with a good sized flower too. ................................... £9.50hyemalis Grünspecht Translating as Green Woodpecker. A semi double form with 12-19segments, the outermost of which are infused and marked with green. They need a year to flowertypically and may throw singles or not flower in their first season. This is normal for these plants. £9.50tubergeniiNot all tubergenii crosses can be called Guinea Gold, (which is a selectedclone). The wide cross (hyemalis x cilicica) is still an excellent plant nevertheless. Makes a very gooddisplay with large slightly fragrant, lemon-peel yellow flowers, a week earlier than Guinea Gold. .. £5.50ERYTHRONIUM* albidum Tidy and attractive blue-green leaves, with pale brown mottling. There isjust one flower on a 10cm stem. This is white, dusted with pinky-fawn on the outside and with a lovelyyellow throat inside. <strong>Rare</strong>ly the flower can shade towards either pink or blue with age. ................ £6.50californicumLarge reflexed white flowers with a broad golden band in the throat. Easyoutside. The best of all cies for garden use. Makes a lovely display reliably each year. .............sold out* caucasicum The earliest species of all to flower, in January. Large, pure white (rarelypalest pink) flowers over patterned leaves. These have bright yellow pollen. Happy in a well-drained,moisture retentive and humus-rich soil in half shade, though slow to increase. .......................... £15.50 19
CitronellaSlightly marbled leaves appear early in spring and good-sized, brightlemon flowers are held above in spikes with several blooms on each. Nicer than most yellow hybrids,most of those are vigorous anyway, but this one is both vigorous and floriferous. ...................... £3.00* dens-canis niveum The contrast of ice-white flowers and dark anthers, early in the year, overattractively mottled and marbled foliage is wonderful. The true plant, rather than the name, is a rarething but we guarantee the validity of this stock. ......................................... £7.50* dens-canis montenegrinum In Montenegro, (in former Yugoslavia, the dog’s tooth violet has somepopulations that are entirely white flowered. This is the form offered. A lovely plant with ice-whiteflowers early in the year, over attractively mottled and marbled foliage.. Fades to pale violet. ....... £9.50dens-canis Old Aberdeen Superbly marked leaves and this is the deepest violet-purple flower colourof all of the clones. Carol Scott’s superb selection deserves the widest audience and has a veryappreciative one here each season! ......................................................................................... £5.50hendersoniiThis is a lovely pale-violet flowered plant. The very centre of the flower isdeep blackcurrant purple sometimes with a surrounding yellow zone. This species is unique in itscolouring and despite being rare and restricted in the wild, it is readily grown in the garden. .....sold outJeannineRaised by W. P. van Eeden and introduced in 1984 by Michael Hoog, whonamed it in honour of his wife. Large yellow flowers with a faint red throat ring, over slightly marbledleaves. These are smaller, in proportion, making this less “cabbagey” than Kondo and Pagoda. .. £4.50* Natalie The best clonal selection from a cross made some years ago, here,between revolutum and californicum White Beauty. Pale pink petals of the revolutum type with ayellow throat overlaid with a red ring from W.B. & darkly mottled foliage. First offered 2013. ....sold out* revolutum Deep-green leaves with strong purple marbling below spikes of wideopen,bright-pink flowers. There is a ring of yellow in the throat and protruding yellow anthers completethe vision! A stunning plant, can be slow to propagate, seed-raised stock. .................................. £8.50revolutum Pink Beauty A robust, pale pink clone (these are vegetative divisions) selected fromwild populations by Carl Purdy (1861-1945). Large, strong flowers with broad pink petals and a veryattractive poise. The base of the petals is yellow, faintly dotted with orange spots. .................... £14.50sibiricumHuge pastel to dark-pink flowers with yellow (not blue) anthers withheavily patterned leaves. Rivals the largest US species for size. A distinctive species from Siberia, thatlikes cold, humid half-shade in a humus-rich soil. This is not one to be coddled in a pot! .............. £9.00sibiricum Altai Snow A lovely white seed strain from Arnis Seisums which breeds true fromseed (if not allowed to interpollinate). Notably large, white flowers with a cream tinge. At the base of isa creamy yellow zone with orange spots and a large yellow blotch. Early.................................. £12.00* Susannah A gorgeous pale golden yellow hybrid between fertile tuolumnense andoregonum, the best yellow hybrid to date, it leaves all others standing. A fully opened flower is almost10cm across and there are normally three of these per spike. Free flowering. VERY few. ........sold out* tuolumnense A strong growing, high altitude species from the mountains of California,bone hardy in many years in cultivation. Bright green shiny leaves and unmarked flowers of brightlemon-peel yellow in April. Peaty half shade is perfect. .............................................................. £3.50White BeautyStrongly marbled leaves, in bronze and green, below spikes of largecreamy flowers. These are yellow in the centre and have a rusty-red throat ring. This is a vigorousselected clone of californicum which makes a superb display in the garden. ............................... £3.50FRITILLARIAacmopetalaTall and slender stems with 1-2 flowers of lizard green, the innersegments stained purple. The outers flare gently. Elegant. Garden soil, full sun, well-drained.. .... £1.50acmopetala wendelboi Differently shaped, squared-shouldered, dumpy bells, with a flared mouth,this is very different in appearance to the normal form. Makes shorter plants than the type species,although the flowers are virtually the same size ........................................................................ £3.50bucharica Romit Several open-faced white flowers, with green centres, on 20cm stems,early in the season. Starts in mid-March most years, outside and unprotected. This strain is the mostvigorous available and is seed-raised from plants selected from the Romit gorge populations. ..... £3.70caricaGrey-green leaves on 10-25cm stems, crowned by up to three tubularbells. These are 2cm long and are clear green-yellow, often with a thin red line around each. Ideal in apan, but tough enough for the garden. Hardy here over many years in a raised bed.. .................. £3.2520
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