Found wild in Spain, Portugal, Corsica, Sardinia and North Africa this precious little bulb has thrived here at Lambley in a rough overgrown paddock for 18 years. Each autumn I have large drifts of these white fairy bells hanging on thin 15cm tall stems. A well drained, more...

I’ve grown this ornamental onion in the dry garden for ten years and the bulbs planted then have flowered every year since. During October and early November, a month earlier than Allium giganteum, sturdy sixty centimetre tall stems carry huge 20cm diameter balls of, more...

A stunning new Allium hybrid, a cross between A. christophii and A. mcleanii with all the beauty of the former combined with the 90cm tall stem of the latter. It is new to us and to Australia but this giant onion is receiving very favourable reports in Europe and the U.S., more...

Lambley has recently imported good stocks of this bulb which has been given the Award Garden Merit by the RHS. Easily grown in any well drained sunny spot it makes metre tall stems topped by large balls of bright, deep purple-violet flowers. 100cm x 30cm.

This is one of the joys of the dry garden during spring when metre tall stems carry heads of large green and red bells. This is a very easily grown bulb which obligingly quickly dries off and disappears after flow­ering leaving straw coloured stems carrying upward facing, more...

Very rarely does this ornamental onion have only one leaf. More usually sold as A. murrayanum it is one of the easiest of spring flowering bulbs happy here both in the dry garden and the more regularly wa­tered double borders where it flowers through mats of Viola cornuta., more...

This black flowered Arum has a quite pleas­ant smell described as “similar to ferment­ing fruit” in Peter Boyce’s monograph. A native of Syria, Lebanon and Palestine it grows on dry hillsides and the edges of cul­tivated fields. It does well in our dry garden but grows, more...

This is best described as a tall growing grape hyacinth with cone shaped flower heads. The 40cm tall stems carry flowers which are mid blue in bud and open to navy blue. It grows wild in the areas where the Kurds live in Turkey, Iraq and Iran. It will grow happily in the, more...

California Brodiaea is the largest flowered and tallest stemmed of all the Brodiaeas. This particular form produces waxy mauve pink flowers, seven or eight to a head, from mid-November until Christmas. A native of Northern California where it grows in thin deciduous, more...

The Californian genus Calochortus is one of the most beautiful of all the bulbous genera. Not difficult to grow if they are planted in a sunny well drained spot and kept dry during summer. C. ‘Cupido’ is a new import and unlike many of its kin has a good bulb increase., more...

Colchicum agrippinum is a vigorous bulb with many large purple and white tessellated flowers in early autumn.

Colchicum byzantinum has several large, pink almost tulip like flowers and half a dozen bulbs will make a great display. We grow it beneath an olive tree in the dry garden.15cm x 30cm. Sun.