Catalogue - Paul Christian Rare Plants

HYACINTHOIDESaristidesA dwarf species, for pot, bulb-frame or a sunny, raised bed. The short,broad leaves are a perfect foil for the large flowers, of powder blue with a deep blue ovary and deeperanthers. Gorgeous, and the last time we offered this it sold out within days. ................................ £7.00lingulata ciliolata MK.2984 Strap-like hairy-edged leaves below compact spikes of mediumsized soft china blue flowers, in autumn. A North African plant, by repute possibly tender (althoughhardy here) but superb in a pot under glass for autumn blooming. .............................................. £3.50non-scripta Wavertree From the garden of the late Frank Waley at Sevenoaks a gift from Franknamed for his garden Wavertree (nothing to do with the Liverpool suburb). Selected for its lovelycolouration a clone of the true, pure English Bluebell, with no Spanish bluebell genes). ............... £3.00reverchoniiNarrow blue-green leaves and short conical spikes of deep blue flowers inFebruary. Flowering lasts until late April, as the spike lengthens, ( after flowering it may be some 20cmtall. Each 1cm methyl-violet bloom has a sky blue ovary, held on the main stem by a 3cm stalk. .. £6.50vicentinaVH.702 A super little, May-flowering plant, with soft blue flowers of heavytexture, made reliably every year. These have the paired bracts under the flowers and yellow pollen.Very tolerant. From a collection at Cabo san Vicente by the late Vic Horton many years ago. ...... £3.50IPHEIONAlberto CastilloAttractive silver foliage with large fragrant blooms of pristine white. Anexcellent advance, twice as large as the old, scrawny ‘album’, which we have dropped. .............. £1.50Charlotte Bishop A selection released in 2003. This complements the existing range of newcultivars with broad-petalled flowers of sugar pink and white plus a light fragrance of sweet violets.Strong, readily grown outside in the garden and flowering from Jan to late summer..................... £1.50JessieA selection, I believe made by Tony Hall, from seedlings of Rolfe Fielderwhich has resulted in a very good plant of a much more intense, deeper blue whilst preserving thesame lovely broad petals, scent and pleasing appearance of that plant. Highly recommended. .... £1.50IRISIRIS Juno typesalbomarginata True (not “of gardens”) Most cultivated albomarginata is not true, the real plantis quite dwarf with glossy leaves and up to four large flowers of china blue with fine lining in navy blue,around a white, cockscomb crest, edged in blue...................................................................... £15.00* aucheri Blue Jay A clonal raised from a single plant found near Diyarbakir by ArnisSeisums. The colour here is also a deep, rich blue-violet, but the this time the whole blade of fall isviolet feathered and it lacks the tiny yellow crest to the falls. It is stunning plant. ........................ £12.00* aucheri Olof (Shooting Star) This represents the very deepest of all the indigo clones ofthis species. Raised clonally from a single KPPZ find originally from near Leylek. Documented,vegetative offspring of the original. A fabulous new plant deep, deep indigo with a white crest. .. £10.50* aucheri Snow White Originally selected from the colony found at Leylek Station in S. Turkey bythe KPPZ team in the early nineties. Snow White has a primrose-yellow signal patch rather than thechrome yellow of Snow Princess. ............................................................................................. £5.50* aucheri Turkish Ice This clone is yet one more wonderful plant to have come from the famousKPPZ Turkish expedition of some years ago. Increased in cultivation this is a clone and a fabulousone with stunning, almost white flowers with an elegant sky-blue suffusion. .............................. £10.50* aucheri Indigo This has a particularly intense shade which approaches indigo, describedby one grower as “very deep, ink colour”. Several parent plants have been interbred to produce thisstrain. The parents were from Leylek, Turkey. Very lovely, but so are all of these new forms........ £8.50bucharica Baldschuan Yellow There are some superb bucharica forms now available. They growwell outside, make masses of flowers, some are fragrant. We cannot grow them all and nowconcentrate on the best. This is superb, dwarf and plastered in deep golden yellow flowers. ....sold out* capnoides An evasive shade of near white, infused with violet, a shade obvious in thestandards, which are a pale-violet with a central violet line. These provide a darker contrast for theadjacent falls which bear a small, central, yellow crest at their ruffled hafts. .............................. £24.50 25