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Bulbs for the Festive Season I have a workshop tomorrow at the Nurseries where we will be exploring how to prepare, use and style with fragrant Paperwhite, Hyacinths and the drama that is undoubtedly the Hippeastrum (Amaryllis). These will add a richness and natural beauty to your homes throughout the Christmas period and in…
Continue reading ➞ A force of nature …. bulbs for the festive season
Tulip – look out for White Triumphator, Purissima, Tres Chic, White Parrot
Moth Orchids – the ubiquitous white but in a whole range of colours now
Paperwhite Narcissus – early flowering and intensely fragrant
Hellebore niger – the so called Christmas Rose
Hellebore niger
Jasmine officinale – a fragrant propeller-flowered climber
Stately Amaryllis
The green throat to a white Amaryllis
More white tulips…
White tulips
Pristine white tulips, British Grown
White flowers set off by grey-green leaves
Tulips, White
Anemone coronaria – a cool bloom amongst some intense jewel colours
Tulips, with holly berries – Ilex verticillata
Plenty of choice here if you are looking to furnish your home and compliment a winter garden with white-flowering lovelies – tulips of course will be flowering outside next Spring but here is a taster of things to come. Paperwhite narcissus are properly in bloom now and fragrant they are too – next…
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Hippeastrum Royal Red
Sarah Raven, never one to shy away from strong colours, expounds on the beautiful amaryllis/hippeastrum…
The Telegraph 16th November 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/3345515/Amaryllis-the-power-flower.html
Dazzlingly over-the-top, amaryllis are the perfect cut flower for Christmas. Sarah Raven shows how to grow and arrange them
Amaryllis have replaced poinsettias as Britain’s favourite Christmas plant and that’s a great thing.
These huge South African bulbs make brilliant winter house plants and are the longest-lasting winter cut flower you can buy. As cut stems, treated right, they’ll last nearly three weeks. And, if you take care of your bulbs, they will bloom again and again, putting on an extra inch in girth and producing an extra flower spike every year you keep them.
They’re expensive. But, cut or growing, they are well worth it. Old squares, such as my husband, think they are vulgar and over-the-top. But what, I wonder, is Christmas for? All…
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The Glasshouse at RHS Wisley is host to a trial of Hippeastrums (though you might say Amaryllis) and a fine show they make, with such a wide variety of form and colour, with giant trumpets and spidery filamentous-ness side by side, gentle pastels against the brassiest and brightest, velvet against satin against crystal.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/plants-blogs/plant-trials/february-2015/hippeastrum-on-trial
Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) are the tropical South American plants that are so popular at Christmas for their large colourful blooms – and with 200 bulbs on display at Wisley they are providing a big splash of winter cheer.
We have close to 70 different varieties in the trial, and we want to see how well they perform over three flowering seasons.
We also aim to demonstrate how to get the best out of your bulbs because, with a little care, potted Hippeastrum bulbs can reward you with beautiful flowers over many years.
Along with the…
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