1. Iris species nova - Starweaver's Gems from Earth and Sky

69. Allium sanbornii var. congdonii
Comparatively tall pretty plant and one of latest blooming from Californian alliums. NEW
Usually with more than 100 whitish to light lavender pink flowers on up to 40 cm tall
stem. The urn-shaped outer tepals have reflexed tips. Need dry summer from start of
blooming, but not difficult.
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70. Allium siskiyouense
A dwarf version of A. falcifolium. The leaves are distinctly narrower. The urn-shaped
flowers have broader tepals that have only slightly reflexed tips and are not as dramatically
tapered. The flower colour varies from white to pale rose with a much darker mid
vein. With age colour quickly changes to shades of rose-red to red violet often in the
same inflorescence. 16.00
71. Allium tolmiei var. platyphyllum
Beautiful American allium from gravely clay flats very wet at flowering time, sun
baked in late summer. From a pair of bold, broad, sickle-shaped leaves arises 10 cm
scape with 7.5 cm sphere of pink, vase-shaped flowers. 8.00
72. Allium tolmiei var. tolmiei
A compact form with very delicate light soft pink coloured flowers with a darker pink
midvein in a little smaller heads than in subsp. platyphyllum on 5 cm scapes. The pair
of leaves is narrower and not as strongly falcate. 10.00
73. Allium unifolium 03-61
In cultivation this onion can multiply vigorously when kept moist through flower- NEW
ing. The widely campanulate perianths are in pleasant shades of pink and rose. The
pedicels are much longer than the perianths creating a small starburst inflorescence.
Easily grown under most garden conditions. Grown from seeds collected on Santa 6.00
Cruz Mtns. in California.
OTHER BULBOUS PLANTS FROM AMERICA
74. Bloomeria crocea
15 cm large starbursts of up to 50 golden yellow flowers on 30 cm scapes. The spreading,
strap-shaped tepals are barely fused at the base encircling the stamens. The pedicels
vary in length as the flowers develop giving a starburst effect to the inflorescence.
From quite high altitudes (2000m). 5.00
75. Brodiaea californica
Deep purplish-blue, 3 - 4 cm long, funnel-shaped flowers arranged of usually more
than 15 in lax umbel held on 30 - 40 cm high stem. For sunny place in rock garden.
Wild form from seeds collected in Tehama Co. in California where it grows in sparse
grassy meadows in heavy, clayey but gravely loam. 3.00
76. Brodiaea coronaria
Large colonies of this beautiful violet-purple brodiaea colour the grassy slopes of the
Columbia River Gorge. The 3 cm large upward-facing flowers have a central ring
of cream-coloured staminodes and stamens. The open umbels are on 15-20 cm long
stems. In nature on heavy clay soils. 8.00
77. Brodiaea elegans
Forms 10 cm umbels of large dark blue-violet, funnel-shaped flowers with ascending
lobes. Similar to the ubiquitous Triteleia laxa, but on much shorter scapes. From
Northern Sierra Nevada, California, where it grows in red fir forest on vernally moist
gravely flats at 1700m. 4.00
78. Brodiaea purdyi
A dwarf brodiaea from Northern Sierra Nevada in California with the flowers divided
into short fat tubes and narrow, spreading lobes. The 3-6, lavender-blue, 2.5 cm large
flowers are in small umbels on 15 cm scapes.
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