Lambley Nursery Bulb Catalogue

Stocks from the 2010 bulb catalogue are no longer available. Remaining stocks have been replanted and shall be available again in 2011.

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...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Allium

Allium ‘Globemaster’

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 flower,, more...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

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...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Allium ‘Round and Purple’

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...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Allium giganteum

Of all the bulbs I grow in the Dry Garden this is the most spectacular. Huge perfectly round flower heads of purple pink flowers are carried on 100-120 cm tall stems during late spring and early summer. When in leaf growth during winter and early spring it needs to be in full, more...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Allium hollandicum ‘Purple Sensation’

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.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Allium moly

One of the smaller growing ornamental onions which will soon make decent sized and showy clumps in the garden. During late winter in our dry garden this onion’s handsome wide greyish basal leaves push through the bare earth where earlier flowering perennials have been cut, more...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

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...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

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...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Allium unifolium

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...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Arum

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...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

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...

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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...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Brodiaea elegans - Harvest Brodiaea

We were sent seed of the Harvest Brodiaea by Chris Brickell 25 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...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Calochortus

Calochortus luteus ‘Golden Orb’ - Golden Mariposa Tulip

This beautiful bulb grows wild in the foothills of the Californian Sierra Nevada. It is one of the last bulbs to flower in our thyme lawn where it is still in flower during late November early December. Several exquisite buttercup yellow tulip shaped flowers are produced on, more...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

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...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Colchicum

A genus of very useful, tough autumn flowering bulbs (and a few miffy spring flowering species) 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 may smother, more...

Colchicum agrippinum

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

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Colchicum autumnale

Colchicum autumnale is found wild in most of Europe and has, as E.A. Bowles put it, “......rather starry segments about two inches in length, of a uniform, soft rose-lilac....”. Very easily grown and has multiple flowers to each bulb.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Colchicum byzantinum

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.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Crocus

All the crocus we list in this catalogue flourish here at Lambley and are happy for a summer baking as these beautiful bulbs (with a few exceptions) inhabit summer dry places in the wild. Crocus grow, flower and seed during autumn, winter and early spring. By late spring they, more...

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Ard Schenk’

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Ard Schenk’ is a vigorous and freely increasing pure white flowered cultivar.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Blue Pearl’

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Blue Pearl’ is a swooningly beautiful crocus with pale blue inner petals, a yellow throat and lavender blue outer petals.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Cream Beauty’

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Cream Beauty’ has rich cream flowers.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Crocus chrysanthus ‘E.P.Bowles’

Crocus chrysanthus ‘E.P.Bowles’ has deep buttery yellow flowers with bronze feathering.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Gypsy Girl’

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Gypsy Girl’ exceptionally good doer with bright yellow flowers and rich maroon feathering.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Romance’

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Romance’ has butter yellow flowers stained smoky blue.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Crocus flava ‘Yellow Mammoth’

Crocus flava ‘Yellow Mammoth’ produces rich egg yolk yellow goblets.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Crocus kotschyanus

This Turkish species has been an exceptional doer here at Lambley where it has flourished in weedy unwatered rough grass for 15 years or more. It’s goblets of lilac flowers with a deep yellow throat are produced quite early in the autumn and with repeated flushes will go on, more...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Crocus ochroleucus

This autumn flowering crocus grows wild in Syria, Lebanon and Palestine where its creamy white yellow throated flowers are produced late in the autumn. It flowers here at Lambley during late April and May. It grew here for many years in a rough neglected area. This little, more...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Crocus sativus - Saffron Crocus

This crocus produces the saffron of commerce, a precious spice worth more than its weight in gold. It takes in excess of 4000 flowers to produce an ounce of saffron which is the dried, long red style of this crocus. I grow it for the beauty of its large autumn flowers. It, more...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Crocus sieberi ‘Bowles White’

Thought by many to be the most beautiful white spring flowered crocus, this cultivar was raised by E.A. Bowles in the 1920s. I grow this species in drifts under Salvia nemorosa clones which are cut to the ground in May. The crocus grows, flowers (in August) and dies down by, more...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.