Details
- Supplied As
- Bulbs
- Bulb Size
- 5/+ cm
- Flowering Height
- 10-15 cm
- RHS Recommended
- Award of Garden Merit
- Colour
- Blues
- Flowering Time
- February
- Planting Time
- September
- October
- November
- Perfect For
- Small Garden & Balcony
Chionodoxa Sardensis
M5224
Description
No rock garden should be without Chionodoxa ‘Sardensis’. With its pure gentian-blue blooms, this charming cultivar will bedazzle you with its beauty when it flowers in early spring. Stout, purplish stems are loaded with the pretty star-shaped blooms, each featuring a gleaming white eye in the centre.
Chionodoxa are brilliant for naturalising in rich, well-drained soil and will grow happily in sun and shade. Perfect for borders, alpine gardens and containers, forming soft cushions of eye-catching colour.
Chionodoxa ‘Sardensis’ has been granted an Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society for its exceptional garden qualities and stunning looks.
Care Guide
This low-growing, early spring bulb is a popular choice for naturalising in the rockery or grassland.
Plant 5 cm deep, 5 cm apart. Water well in the growing season.
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Lucillae Alba
M5223
Loose clusters of gleaming, snow-white flowers adorn stems up to 15cm tall throughout February and March on glorious Chionodoxa ‘Luciliae Alba’.
This pretty, pure white cultivar will create snowy mounds of star-shaped blooms, ideal for illuminating virtually any garden space. Perfect for rockeries, borders, containers and alpine gardens. Mix Chionodoxa ‘Luciliae Alba’ with the bulbs of other dainty spring beauties, such as Crocus, Muscari and Snowdrops for a textured garden tapestry.
Chionodoxas thrive in sun or shade, in well-drained, fertile soil where they will naturalise happily and return with a more floriferous display, year after year.
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Mirabile
M5265
Exquisite, dainty flowers in shades of pink, bloom from September to November on charming Cyclamen ‘Mirabile’. The sweet nodding flowers feature petals with serrated edges and a blotch of magenta at the base of each lobe.
Heart-shaped, dark green leaves with beautiful silver markings form a pretty bed of attractive groundcover – a perfect backdrop to enhance these whimsical autumn flowers. Cyclamen ‘Mirabile’ is the recipient of an Award of Garden Merit from the RHS for garden excellence and beauty. Plants will naturalise easily, forming captivating swathes of colour.
Plant the corms shallowly, just below the surface of well-drained, humus-rich soil in a partly shaded area of your garden. Also suitable for container planting.
- Delivery
Orders for Spring Flowering Bulbs will be despatched in order rotation from mid-September to late November.
We use Whistl for deliveries and our ordering process allows you to provide special instructions such as leaving in a safe place should you happen to be out when your bulbs are delivered or if you require a different delivery date.
Should you have any other order requirements other than those listed please contact us on 01622 840229 before placing an order.
Current charges per order are as below and include VAT.
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