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Acis

Acis autumnale - Autumn Snowflake

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 spot, more...
10 bulbs for $6.00 or 100 for $50

Allium

Allium ‘Mount Everest’

A stunning new Allium hybrid, a cross between the Central Asian A. stipitatum and South west Asian A. aflatunense, with 90cm tall stiff stems topped by 10-12cm balls of white flowers. Easily grown if it’s given full sun during winter and spring and kept fairly dry during, more...
One bulb for $5.00, 5 for $20.00 or 25 for $90.00

Allium aflatunense

This is one of the easiest of drumstick alliums to grow. As long as it is planted in a sunny position in well drained soil it should be happy. The ball-like heads of deep lilac to violet flowers, some 10cm in diameter, are carried on 50to 60cm tall stems. It grows wild in the, more...
3 bulbs for $9.00 or 10 for $25.00

Allium atropurpureum

One of the darkest flowered of the drumstick alliums with dark purple-maroon flowers in a ball-like head some 6 or 7 cm in diameter on 60cm or more tall stems. A native of dry places in South-Western Europe, it flowers during late spring and early summer. Happy in any well, more...
3 bulbs for $9.00 or 10 for $25.00

Allium christophii - Star of Persia

With its huge 20cm diameter globes of metallic purple stars this is one of the most beautiful of all bulbs. Growing wild on rocky hillsides in Central Asia and Iran this ornamental onion needs to be kept dry during summer. It makes a very good pot specimen as the flower stems, more...
3 bulbs for $10.00 or 10 for $30.00

Allium hollandicum ‘Purple Sensation’

This wonderful allium grows wild in Iran. Lambley has recently imported good stocks of this bulb which has been given the Award of Garden Merit by the RHS. Easily grown in any well drained sunny spot it makes 70cm tall stems topped by large balls of bright, deep purple-violet, more...
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Allium jesdianum ‘Akbulak’

This form of Allium jesdianum was collected in Uzbekistan. It’s very similar in effect to Allium x hollandicum ‘Purple Sensation but grows a little taller at Lambley where it flowers during late October and early November. The tennis ball sized purple flower heads are held on, more...
3 bulbs for $12.00 or 10 for $35.00

Allium karataviense

This native of Central Asia would be grown for its 10 cm wide pleated leaves alone but when the ball of purplish pink flowers nestle into the foliage during mid to late spring it’s a show stopper. This Allium needs a well drained sunny spot in the garden and a spacing of, more...
2 bulbs for $9.00 or 5 for $20.00

Allium karataviense ‘Ivory Queen’

A really good clean white flowered form of this species.
2 bulbs for $11.00 or 5 for $25.00

Allium moly ‘Jeanine’ - Jeanine Golden Garlic

This beautiful form of Golden garlic was collected in the Spanish Pyrenees in the late 1970s. It flowers six weeks earlier than the type, has taller more numerous flower stems and much larger flowers of a gentle warm yellow. This is the first Australian release. 45cm by, more...
10 bulbs for $7.00 or 100 for $60.00

Allium siculum (syn. Nectaroscordum siculum) - Mediterranean Bells

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...
One bulb for $7.00 or 3 for $18.00

Allium sphaerocephalon - Drumstick Allium

Criss and I first saw this growing in the garden at Charlston Farmhouse about 20 years ago. We use it in our double flower borders and the dry climate garden where, around Christmas and the turn of the new year, metre tall stems are topped by green golf balls which over a, more...
10 bulbs for $6.00 or 100 for $50.00

Arum

Arum concinnatum - Marbled Leaf Form

This Arum is common on Crete and less so Turkey where it also grows. It’s very easily grown and would deserve a place in the garden for its handsome arrowhead shaped, glossy green leaves which in this form has creamy marbling. If given plenty of water it will grow a metre, more...
3 bulbs for $12.00 or 10 for $35.00

Arum dioscoridis

Peter Boyce in his monograph on the genus writes “...this species is deservedly popular with aroid fanciers.....Most clones are hardy, free-flowering and have handsome coloration. “ He points out the one disadvantage that Arum dioscoridis has and that is its smell “... akin, more...
One bulb for $6.00 or 3 for $15.00

Arum hygrophilum

To my mind the most beautiful flower in the genus and also it blesses the gardener with an exceptionally long flowering period from early winter until mid-spring. The flowers are like an elegant Arisaema than an Arum. The spathe is long and narrow, soft green with a deep, more...
3 bulbs for $12.00

Arum palaestinum

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 twice, more...
One bulb for $6.00 or 3 for $15.00

Arum pictum

Arum pictum, a native of Majorca, Minorca, Corsica, Sardinia and parts of Italy, flowers in the autumn just before or just as it unfurls its incredibly beautiful leaves. The flower spathes are purple and the spadix is black but it is for the foliage effect that this species, more...
One bulb for $6.00 or 3 for $15.00

Arum purpureospathum

This recently described species endemic on Crete is only found in one or two localities there. It's lucky for those of us that love aroids that this plant is easily grown in Australia. We grow it out in the open in a sunny spot but I’m sure it would be just as happy in light, more...
One bulbs for $6.00 or 3 for $15.00

Babiana

Babiana stricta ‘Zwanenburg Glory’

Babianas, which hail from South Africa, are easily grown small bulbs which give the garden a splash of colour during spring. 'Zwanenberg Glory' is a free flowering Dutch selection which we have recently imported and are offering for the first time. Several bright, more...
10 bulbs for $7.00 or 100 for $60.00

Bellevalia

Bellevalia pycnantha

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...
3 bulbs for $9.00 or 10 for $25.00

Brodiaea

Brodiaea californica - Californian Brodiaea

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 woodland, more...
5 bulbs for $9.00 or 25 for $40.00

Brodiaea elegans - Harvest Brodiaea

We were sent seed of the Harvest Brodiaea by Chris Brickell 30 years or more ago and have grown it in a neglected unwatered area for many years where it quietly flourished amongst rough grass. We now give it pride of place in our dry climate garden where it has impressed us, more...
5 bulbs for $9.00 or 25 for $40.00

Calochortus

Calochortus uniflorus ‘Cupido’ - Cupido Mariposa Tulip

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...
5 bulbs for $10.00 or 50 for $90.00

Calochortus venustus - Butterfly Mariposa Tulip

A variable Californian endemic which in this form has white flowers with crimson stippling at the base of each petal and a crimson blotch above the stippling. These exquisite flowers bloom late in the season from mid-November until mid-December. Like most Mariposa Tulips, more...
One bulb for $6.00 or 3 for $15.00

Chionodoxa

Glory of the Snow

Whilst these bulbs grow wild in alpine areas of western Turkey where it can be very wet in spring. They grow well enough here tolerating dryness as long as they are planted under deciduous trees and shrubs or even under winter dormant perennials . They flower in late winter., more...

Chionodoxa forbesii ‘Alba’

A good white flowered form on 15cm tall stems. It increases well.
5 bulbs for $7.50 or 25 for $35.00

Chionodoxa forbesii ‘Pink Giant’

I was given this bulb 35 years ago by the Prince of Small Bulbs, Otto Fauser. The flowering stems grow about 20cm tall and the pink flowers are large for the genus.
5 bulbs for $8.50 or 25 for $40.00

Chionodoxa luciliae - Glory of the Snow

A dwarf growing bulb with dark green leaves and upward facing mauve blue flowers. I grow this in a bit of light shade in the dry garden. Fairly easy to grow it may be happier with a little summer moisture and planted under deciduous trees. When happy it’s one of the wonders, more...
3 bulbs for $9.00 or 10 for $25.00

Chionodoxa sardensis

During early spring, this little jewel from the Turkish mountains carries clear gentian blue, white eyed flowers, half a dozen or so to each 12cm tall stem. It grows well in the shade of an olive tree in the dry garden.
5 bulbs for $8.50 or 25 for $40.00

Colchicum
A genus of tough autumn flowering bulbs which suit our climate very well. They flower, make their leaf growth and retire into dormancy during autumn, winter and spring. Most Colchicum have large leaves and allowing a spread of about 40 cm would not be too much.

Colchicum ‘The Giant’

Lambley imported this a couple of years ago and we haven’t seen it flower yet. It has pinkish lavender flowers on very tall stems. A good increaser it will soon make a good display in the garden. A spacing of 40 cm would not be too much. Sun or light shade will suit it.
One bulb for $6.00, 3 for $15 or 10 for $45.00

Colchicum agrippinum

A bulb of wild places in Greece and adjacent areas of Turkey, C. aggripinum is thought to be a hybrid between C. variegatum and C. autumnale. It is a vigorous bulb increasing well and produces many large purple and white tessellated flowers quite early in autumn. Allow a, more...
3 bulbs for $7.50, 10 for $22.00 or 50 for $100.00