Squill

Once considered a Squill, Cooper's Ledebouria is actually more tolerant of moist winters than most other Ledebouria and prefers average moisture during the growing season (late winter-summer).

Do not keep overly moist and provide sharp drainage. Ledebouria is a bulbous perennial that produces small spikes of white hyacinth-like flowers in spring and summer that are held well above the intricately patterned foliage.

Each bulb sends up 3 or 4 flowering shoots, and each of these shoots in turn produces up to 3 blooms, so even a single plant is a bouquet of color! Expect your Scilla to reach 4 to 8 inches high and wide, increasing a bit the second and third year.

I cannot even imagine a spring garden without them.Naturalized displays of Glory-of-the-Snow and Siberican Squill These include squills, bluebells, glory-of-the-snow and a few other relatives.

Scilla, also known as Siberian squills, grow well as woodland plant, but its vivid blue and contrasting stems make it a natural for a formal full sun garden bed. Readily naturalizes.

Each plant will have a spread of 3-6 inches (8-15 cm.) once it emerges.Striped squill can also be grown from seed, which is useful if you cannot find the bulbs, but growing from seed has two disadvantages: the seeds need constant moisture during their...

If allowed to become a many-headed specimen, the winter blooms can be quite impressive en mass. If you have a new container, no preparation is necessary. This will help to keep the leaves of Ledebouria socialis from coming into contact with damp soil...

For maximum success in replanting, first, make some decisions in the store. The usual suspects: daffodils ( Narcissus spp.) hyacinths ( Hyacinthus spp.) tulips ( Tulipa sp.) snake's heads ( Fritillaria meleagris ) crocuses ( Crocus spp.) snowdrops ( Galanthus...

« More Dirt on Gardening » Tags garden , Jessica Walliser Purple Sensation has a baseball-sized cluster of purple flowers on a 2-foot-tall stem, and Christophii is a variety with a large ball of loose, star-shaped flowers atop an 18-inch-tall stem.

This is my favorite bulb to grow around hostas, hellebores and other shade perennials. The preparation begins in October, when I plant bulbs for daffodils, tulips, crocus, hyacinth and the like.

Just don't plant them in a straight row, like soldiers standing at attention. You can't plant just one. Daffodils grow at historic sites throughout the south, long after the gardeners who planted them are gone.

In our parks in Bucharest the snowdrops are planted in the lawn,together with the yellow winter aconites, purple alpine squills, orange or purple crocuses, hellebores, white and purple violets , with their divine odor which embraces everyone passing by.

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'Crater Lake Blue' and 'Sunny Border Blue' are just two of the reliable summer-blooming blue-flowered veronicas. Some mophead and lacecap varieties of the hydrangea shrub have the interesting ability to vary in flower color from pink to blue, depending...

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