Lambley Nursery Bulb Catalogue : C

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

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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.

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Crocus chrysanthus ‘Cream Beauty’

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Cream Beauty’ has rich cream flowers.

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Crocus chrysanthus ‘E.P.Bowles’

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

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Crocus chrysanthus ‘Gypsy Girl’

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

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Crocus chrysanthus ‘Romance’

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

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Crocus flava ‘Yellow Mammoth’

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Crocus speciosus

A particularly beautiful and large flowered form of this autumn flowered species with large violet blue chalices for many weeks in mid autumn. This is an old named clone but I’m not sure what to correctly call it. I got it 30 years ago as C. Speciosus ‘Oxonian’ but it doesn’t, more...

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Crocus speciosus ‘Aitchisonii’

Crocus speciosus ‘Aitchisonii’ is the largest flowered of all the clones with lovely pale lilac flowers with very little veining.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Crocus speciosus ‘Albus’

This fabulous pure white flowered form was collected in the southern Caucasus in the first half of the last century. Rarely offered in Australia.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Crocus speciosus ‘Artabir’

A beautiful pale lilac flowered form with deeper lilac vein.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Crocus tommasinianus ‘Barr’s Purple’

Crocus tommasinianus ‘Barr’s Purple’ has large rich lilac purple flowers.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Crocus tommasinianus ‘Lilac Beauty’

Crocus tommasinianus ‘Lilac Beauty’ has starry pale lilac flowers.

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Crocus tommasinianus ‘Roseus’

The most nearly pink of all crocus “.....almost the colour of peach blossom” also described as “.....cyclamen rose with a silver sheen”

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Crocus tommasinianus ‘Whitewell Purple’

Crocus tommasinianus ‘Whitewell Purple’ has purplish mauve flowers.

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Crocus tommasinianus ‘Yalta’

A large flowered Janis Ruksans selection with “silvery shaded outer petals and beautifully contrasting purple inner petals”

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Crocus vernus ‘Flower Record’

Crocus vernus ‘Flower Record’ is the best of the large flowered Dutch Crocus with glossy violet flowers.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Crocus vernus ‘Grand Maitre’ - ‘Grand Maitre’

Crocus vernus ‘Grand Maitre’ has violet blue Flowers

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Crocus vernus ‘Joan of Arc’

Crocus vernus ‘Joan of Arc’ is pure white with contrasting yellow stamens.

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Crocus vernus ‘Pickwick’

Crocus vernus ‘Pickwick’ has creamy white flowers with purple feathering.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Crocus vernus ‘Vanguard’

Crocus vernus ‘Vanguard’ is earlier flowering than others in the group with mauve purple inner petals and silvery outer petals.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.