A super little species with bearded Iris flowers of primrose and sulphur yellows or dusky purples, sometimes bicoloured, sitting above tufty sword-like foliage.
A lovely dwarf bearded iris bearing large, bright, lemon-yellow flowers, some with a purplish lamina on the falls. Collected as seed on Samos its easy to grow and earlier than I. reichenbachii. Appears very similar to I. pumila.
A very rare bearded iris from western Turkey, especially around Denizli and Mugla. It is variable in colour, either blue or yellow; with a white beard. It is so named because of the very conspicuous inflated purple spathes and bracts which subtend the flowers.
Dwarf beared iris from the BalkansBears one to three smokey purple, clear deep violet or lemony yellow good-sized flowers with attractively veined falls on short stems over blue-green foliage. Grown from seed collected near the village of Dadia in Thrace.
Stunning flax-blue flowers with lighter tips, yellow blotch on the falls that are edged in white. Very early, fragrant and indestructible. An award winning heirloom variety.
Showy, fragrant flowers are deep plum with undertones of burgundy with black and white netted markings are on the petal falls, which are tipped in purple-black. A robust and reliable variety.
A hybrid of two lovely dwarf beared species. Iris subbiflora is native to western Andalucia and Portugal and has rich violet flowers coarsely veined brown and purple with bluish beards, Iris revoluta comes small area in Salento, Italy.
A vigorous hybrid between Iris histrioides and Iris reticulata, 'George' has very large, early blooms in sumptuous velvety purple with clean white splashes on the near black falls and and central yellow crest
Wild collection of the Tasselled Grape Hyacinth, a large and beautiful Mediterranean species bearing sterile bluish-violet flowers with fringed corollas which form a tuft above the fertile ones. A must for beginners!
Found on the Cyclades and Crete on limestone hillsides and cliffs. Bears sterile bluish-violet flower which form a tuft above the fertile ones. Similar to Leopoldia comosa.
The rare albino form of the commonly-known “Chilean Glory of the Sun”. Loose clusters of open-faced, starry pure white flowers over rush-like leaves for an extended period in spring.
An uncommon but easy little autumn flowering bulb closely related to colchicums. Delightful funnel-shaped bright purple pink flowers which open flat followed by a few neat glossy green, narrow leaves.
New Introduction from the Sultan Dag in Central Turkey with bicoloured, open-mouthed bells, blackish-blue at the base and contrasting white at the apex.
One of the most beautiful of all Muscari - to quote Elizabeth Strangman from Washfield Nursery, "Delightfully scented, palest blue flowers from greenish buds".
A rare beauty with the palest pink flowers becoming suffused with carmine as they fade, white sterile flowers top the spike. The name “Gul” is Turkish for rose which aptly describes this flush and denotes the country of its origin.
One of the few ‘grape hyacinths’ to win an Award of Merit at the Alpine Garden Society’s shows in UK. A truly beautiful addition to our gardens. Powder-blue flowers at top of long elegant cones of the palest green.
Bright blue, open-mouthed flowers, edged white, densely packed in medium-sized inflorescence, short, neat foliage. Non-invasive species originating from our seed collection at Lake Abant, Turkey.
A striking bi-coloured form of this easily grown species. Each flower spike carries beautiful ice-blue florets tipped with white, topped with contrasting white florets
Not completely sure on the identity of this little sweetie, very dense heads of globular flowers, in mid-blue to violet on 15cm stem over a long period. Nice addition to the rock garden.
Flowers in dense racemes, individual flowers are deep blackish-blue with a white apex and flaring white lobes. Two to four, narrow, channelled leaves curling on the ground below a very dense and quite large flower head.
A delightful member of the Pseudomuscari section. Racemes of small flared white flowers open from amethyst tinged buds. Rare species discovered by the late Jim Archibald in 1985 in sandy soils, under Pines near Adana, Turkey Needs a dry summer rest