I know of no other bulb that blooms as long as this does. It starts to flower in early October and is still looking respectable during the second week in December. The deep pink, tubular flowers, with paler recurved tips, are carried in heads of up to twenty per 40cm tall, more...

A plant of hot dry Mediterranean sites making clumps of large dark green arrow shaped leaves during the late winter from which during late spring large purple-black, evil looking and evil smelling flowers are produced. This is quite happy in a dry spot under deciduous trees, more...