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Description

If you're after easy to grow spring-flowering bulbs that return stronger every year, and bring a real sense of gentle beauty to your garden, Puschkinia libanotica should be top of your list.

Sometimes called 'striped squill', it's an absolute wonder for early pollinators, flowering just as the garden shakes off winter. The blooms are powdery blue with a neat darker stripe that runs down the middle of each petal, a detail you'll really appreciate up close. But plant them in groups and you'll get a cloud of colour.

These bulbs grow to around 10cm tall, but they're incredibly versatile. They're ideal for naturalising, so they'll self-seed and clump up year after year. Tuck them into a lawn, under a tree, along a border, or in a shallow container, anywhere you want early interest and colour.

They cope brilliantly with our British winters and don't require any special treatment. Just plant them in autumn into well-drained soil and forget about them until early spring, when up they pop with no prompting.

Supplied as a set of 60 bulbs, size 5/6.

Top Tips

Which way up? Usually pointy end upwards, but if you are not sure, plant the bulb on its side and it will eventually right itself.
Add mycorrhizal fungi to the roots before planting to encourage faster and more reliable establishment.

Care Information

Planting Advice for your bulbs:

It is best to get your bulbs in the ground as soon as you can so that they can establish a good root system before the weather becomes too cold.
Please check the bag for any additional planting instructions.
Plant bulbs 10-15cm deep and 10cm apart.
They are fine to plant even if a little green growth is showing; they will just need a good watering when you plant them, and thereafter only when the soil is dry.
Leave them in the ground once they die back, they will come back bigger and better each year.
While all the energy that a bulb needs in order to grow is stored in the bulb itself, they will do better if you feed them when in active green growth.
Plant in herbaceous borders, in pots, or leave in the ground to naturalise.

Aftercare Advice for your bulbs:

Water frequently and if in pots, ensure that the compost doesn't dry out.

Delivery Information

Our experienced team at the nursery will always carefully package and send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive once you receive and plant them. Although most plants are extremely tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme of weather conditions, we always avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme frosts or heat is forecast. We also avoid dispatching orders over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. If you have ordered a 'pre-order' item, these will be sent out as soon as possible after the quoted dispatch date and we generally ship your entire order with any pre-ordered items. Once your order has been dispatched, we will send you an email with details on how you can track it.

We send most of our orders via a fully tracked courier service with Yodel. We will send you a tracking link as soon as your order has been dispatched. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, we will not require a signature on delivery, and we ask out couriers to leave your item in a safe place ad your delivery address.

*Please note, once your item has been delivered, we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your delivery address. If you have delivery instruction and require our courier to leave your item in a specific place, please let us know - there is an option to leave a message for the courier at the checkout.

For smaller and single-item orders, we may send these via the post with Royal Mail - Tracking will not be available for orders sent via this method.

**Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

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