This is a listing of rare or new items which are not included in our paper lists.
This can be because they are:
● newly-stocked,
● newly-lifted,
● available in numbers too small to allow us to put them in our paper lists.
There is no need to check if we still have them - they are only available online and the shop counts the sales and numbers available. If they are listed here, they are in stock.
Once they are gone, they are gone!
A close relative of the legendary Allium narcissiflorum and equally beautiful.
This species has heads of up to five individually large flowers of bright rose pink, hanging in clustered heads in summer. The flowers of this species are amongst the loveliest in the genus. Very scarce.
| Allium insubricumallinsins | £8.50 | ||
A stunning new species from the mountains of Uzbekistan. This has tightly-crammed, ball-heads of unique, dark, distinctly violet-tinged blue flowers - the deepest of the 17 or so blue-flowered Allium.
Happy in the garden, well-drained and sunny, drier in summer. A rare new introduction but the intensity of the blue-violet colouring makes this demand a spot in the garden of the connoisseur.
| Allium litvinoviialllitlit | £16.50 | ||
A newcomer to our lists from the section Codonoprasum. The flowers are tiny, but there are more than a hundred (to hundreds) of them held in a tight, globe head 4cm in diameter. The flowers are soft, milky-white.
Lovely and very distinct from many commercialised alliums.
Originally from Antalya, between Aglasun & Chamlidere.
| Allium myrianthumallmyrmyr | £12.50 | ||
Some 25-30 cm tall with white flowers, arranged in a dense fasciculate umbel. The ovaries of the inner flowers are often dark purple-blackish making a nice contrast with the white petals and thin central green lines of the flowers. The leaves are decorative - crinkled and almost lying on the ground. Late spring flowering.
From Adana area in Turkey.
| Allium orientalealloriori | £7.50 | ||
A relative of giganteum and macleanii but better, since in this species the flowers are almost twice the size and of better colour being bright purplish-violet. This ultimately attains up to 1m in height and although its umbel is perhaps only 70% of the size of its relatives this is amply compensated by its individually larger, more deeply coloured flowers.
From the Darwas Mts. of S Tajikistan. Very rare, though it is very good as well. Sharply-drained, fertile, sunny site, dry in the summer but easy here in our south-facing raised beds.
| Allium trautvetterianumalltratra | £17.50 | ||
A clonal form selected many years ago, with large, deep pink flowers of superb texture and colour intensity, held in a multi-flowered head.
This has stood the test of time well and is an excellent contrast plant to the normal form. Few only.
| Amaryllis belladonna Durbanamabeldur | £18.00 | ||
Large heads of individually good-sized flowers in shades of mid to deep pink. The flowers are slightly tubular and very finely lined in shades of deeper pink.
As with other members of the genus Brunsvigia each flower is held on a flower stalk considerably longer than the length of the flower and thus they look like 3D cartwheels. As the flower-head is held on quite a short stem above the ground the effect is stunning.
This needs a good root run or large pot to do well. Standard cultivation methods for the genus are fine for this one, though like most larger Amaryllids, it needs time to settle and commence flowering regularly.
Picture © Denis Tsang, used with permission
| Brunsvigia bosmaniae floweringbrubosbosFLOWERING | £59.50 | ||
| About 2.4cm wide by about 5.5cm tall this is flowering sized for the species. | |||
This stock is a geographical form that occurs near van Rhynsdorp in southern Namaqualand. The plants have rounded mostly dark green leaves with unusual, pale pink, cartilaginous edges to the leaf margins. There are between 4 and 6 of these leaves, on each bulb. They are on average 10cm long and 7cm wide.
The flowers are huge open globes, composed of tubular, bright pink, dark-pink-lined flowers.
| Brunsvigia bosmaniae Rhynsdorpbrubosrhy | £65.50 | ||
| Nice bulbs about 5cm wide by 7cm tall, which is good, large, flowering sized for this species. | |||
This has very attractive foliage of grey-green, strappy, wavy-edged leaves set in a rosette. The leaves are held next to, or below, a large, loose football spike of deep ox-blood red to dark pink, flaring flowers which tone to deep gold at the base of the tube.
This makes one of the biggest heads of all of the species as the peduncles holding the flowers are particularly long. If and when it flowers for you it is a real show stopper. Very lovely and highly recommended.
Everything noted elsewhere about Brunsvigia applies here plus plenty of root space, for this one.
| Brunsvigia littoralis Floweringbrulitflowering | £70.00 | ||
| Fabulous, large flowering-sized bulbs approx. 9cm x 15cm tall. Approx 550gm | |||
There are usually about six leaves, spreading flat on the ground below the flowers. Each has a rough, granular ivory-coloured margin from which the name radulosa derives. The leaf tips are red.
The 30cm flower head is borne on a 40cm stem. Each large ball contains 20-70 blooms. Individual blooms are 4-5cm across. Their crystalline texture and stunning colour is lovely. In this new form it is a very rich, bright deep pink.
It does well in cultivation though it needs attention to good drainage. Culture should be in large pots, or planted out under glass, in a very fertile loam soil with plenty of feeding. Water occasionally but never over-water. If in doubt leave them dry. A dry summer rest, when their leaves die away, is essential. Good air circulation in winter will help to prevent fungal diseases resulting from damp, static air.
This stock is raised from a form that occurs in the central Free State with huge umbels of dark red flowers.
Photo Denis Tsang, with thanks (taken on Drakensberg, near the Lesotho border).
| Brunsvigia radulosa Free StatebruradfreestateFlowering | £69.50 | ||
| Flowering sized. These are about 6cm in diameter. This is more than adequate flowering sized for this form. | |||
This is a very unusual and attractive dwarf plant with evenly-spaced, raised, quite dense pustules on the leaves, each pustule bearing a short, thick, golden-yellow bristle. The leaves vary between 2 and 4 in number and are usually about 6-10cm long by about 2-3cm wide.
This plant is summer-dormant and winter-growing and rewards good cultivation with a compact,10cm ball-head of very attractive pale pink flowers with black anthers maturing to ivory coloured pollen. They appear in the autumn soon after growth begins but well before the leaves appear. The flower head is held on a short stem above the ground.
So far known only from limestones in a small area of Bushmanland, where South Africa and Namibia meet. This is likely to be a new, undescribed species, although, at a push, it could be a very peculiar, rare and localised form of our new species from Pellaburg. Either way it is a distinct taxon and one very worthy of cultivation. The generally compact nature of the species means that it is very well suited to container growth, in a well-drained or sandy compost - under glass in UK of course.
| Brunsvigia sp nova Bushmanlandbruspebus | £69.50 | ||
| bulbs about 2cm across by 3cm tall. This is a very dwarf species anyway, these are good flowering sized. | |||
Strongly chequered violet purple blooms which lack much of the white throat which is usual for Colchicum bivonae. The colouring thus appears more intense, enhanced by the smaller but more densely-packed chequering.
The flowers are well scented and make a superb display at the very start of the main autumn Colchicum season.
| Colchicum bivonae Vestacolbivves | £5.50 | ||
(byzantinum album)
A superb form of Colchicum byzantinum with dense clustered bunches of heavily-textured, white funnels in September. Each bunch has up to 20 flowers, the tips of the styles picked out in purple. Now and again, a petal is also picked out with a fine purple line.
One of the more showy autumn species for garden display where it will catch the eye quite early in the main Colchicum season.
Readily grown under normal garden conditions, in full sun in a fertile, well drained soil.
| Colchicum byzantinum albumcolbyzalb | £8.00 | ||
(sometimes incorrectly called Harlequin)
A most unusual colour break this has medium sized flowers carried on a greenish tube. The flowers are purple at the base, for perhaps a third of their length, but the rest of the slightly spiralled petal is ivory white. The 'Harlequin' colour combination is unique to this cultivar.
An easy garden form which presents no difficulties, but as a new cultivar it is still scarce. Raised by Messrs Visser in the Netherlands.
| Colchicum Harlkijncolharhar | £8.50 | ||
A rare species found in parts of former Yugoslavia and both very little seen and known. Wrongly ascribed to bivonae by some but very distinct.
Bright pink flowers are held in small clusters in autumn. These appear to be self coloured but are in fact slightly chequered with darker pink. Deep in the throat are small yellow anthers held on short filaments, around an elongated whitish style.
| Colchicum visianii Petrovaccolvispet | £22.50 | ||
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