Bright low growing blue flowers that make an inexpensive show around other bulbs.
Order Code: 72-4
Chionodoxa luciliae
The Chionodoxa luciliae ‘of gardens’ is probably really C. forbesii – with a many flowered one sided raceme – native of South Turkey. C luciliae itself later got called C gigantea (!), and has a lax 3-flowered raceme. C.luciliae grows between 5000 and 6500 feet in W. Turkey, not far below the snow line, justifying its name in the Greek, “Glory of the Snow” . It is a bright blue, starlike flower with a white centre, three to a stem, growing to 6” (15cm) high. The leaves are up to 8” (20cm) long slightly recurved.
Planting instructions
Small bulbs to put in quite close together, only 1-2” (2.5-5cm) apart and 2” (5cm) deep in nearly any situation in lighter soils. A foil for other bulbous plants in March.
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