Catalogue - Paul Christian Rare Plants

PARISincompletaAllied to quadrifolia but more vigorous and with larger flowers . In 2010 ourentire stock flowered white but it was green in 2011 and 2012, - this cannot happen and hashappened! Well drained, slightly shaded leaf soil outside, NOT a pot........................................ £18.50japonica Short, stout rhizomes make a stem 25-80cm tall topped by a whorl of 6-10leaves. Above is borne a sublime white flower 8cm across. Not difficult but has a distinct preferences;ample water, humus, humidity, good drainage. Slow to make size, normal trade size for this species isabout 15gms per tuber, our specimen plants are mature, rhizomes in excess of 100gm each .... £70.00quadrifoliaFour whorled leaves and a green and yellow flower in April-May. Thespidery flowers are followed by blue-black berries in autumn. Grow as for Trillium. Easily pleased andhappy with good drainage and humus-rich, fertile soils. Lime is tolerated but not needed.. ........... £7.50tetraphyllaSlender, creeping rhizomes and a 15-25cm stem with 4-7 leaves. Theflower is held on a wiry stem above. It is made up of 4-6 reflexing, lizard green sepals. Above sits awhorl of 6-10 pale yellow anthers on green filaments. An trifid orange style forms an umbrella over thewhole. Black-purple (poisonous) Paris berries follow in autumn. Leaf- or humus-rich soil in part shade.Fully hardy and will make nice colonies in time. ...................................................................... £13.50* thibetica 40-60 cm tall stems with a whorl of narrow, undulate-edged leaves behinda flower of lime-green. The sepals are wide and form an overlapping foil for the maroon ovary and theelongated, rolled petals. In the centre sit upright yellow anthers. A distinctive and quietly attractive,hardy species, good in a humus-rich soil in light shade. Strongly perennial once it roots down. .... £9.50* verticillata Stems from 25-60cm tall which bear a rosette of 5-8, slightly wavy edgedleaves. The flower has 4 or 5 green sepals with large yellow anthers and a purple ovary tipped with 3-5-pronged stigma lobes sitting on top. Easily grown as for other creeping Paris species. ........... £14.50RANUNCULUS* kochii A charming, early flowering miniature from Iran and Iraq, where it growsas a snow-melt plant at up to 3,000m. At flowering it is just 10cm tall, though the flower is large forsuch a dwarf stature. These have strap-like petals, but lots of them, and make a super display in analpine house pot or a trough. They are nicely set off by the emerging, bright-green foliage. Gritty,humus-rich soil, lots of water in spring and very little in winter. Increase is never rapid.................£2.50ROMULEAbulbocodium(grandiflora) The easiest and perhaps the best species for outdoor growth inthe garden with 2-3cm long tubular flowers of lovely blue-violet with a white and yellow throat, held ona short wiry stem above very narrow wiry leaves. ..................................................................sold outbulbocodium leichtliniana We have just a few corms of this lovely Cretan colour form with very paleflowers – virtually white in fact, each with a lovely yellow throat. ................................................. £3.00linaresii graeca The smaller flowered form from Greece and Crete with more intense purpleflowers and purple filaments which contrast with the yellow anthers. .......................................... £3.00tempskyanaA little known species from Cyprus and Turkey, with flowers in an intensedeep violet, deeper still in the throat with a small central boss of sulphur anthers. The flowers sit onshort, stiff stems. A superb little plant of a unique colouring. Ideal in a pot or pan, but hardy enough togo outside in a sunny, gritty, well-drained spot. Naturally tiny, but flowering sized corms. ............. £3.50SANGUINARIAcanadense Multiplex Finger-fat, red rhizomes make waxy shoots which unfold to gorgeousblue-green, crimp-edged leaves around double, white pom-poms. In time makes a clump which is ahighlight of the spring garden. A winner of every plant award there is, should be in every garden . £8.50* canadense Mizar A lovely clone distinct from multiplex and ordinary single forms. Notablyearly-flowering, appearing here at least 3 weeks ahead of multiplex. Semi-double flowers with 15-18petals. More than the single but not the pom-pom of multiplex. It's a lovely thing worthy of a wideraudience. In most of the UK it starts in February, earlier in a mild winter. In view of this early flowering& its semi-double, starry flowers we have christened it Mizar, named for an early double star. .sold out 35