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Romulea, like many of their close relatives, Crocus, enjoy good drainage and sun in the garden. Loam soils at the front of a raised bed or border would be good so their slender growths are not swamped.

Pot cultivation allows you to see their miniature perfection intimately. Their flowers are upright trumpets of Crocus shape and appearance, but they are held on wiry stems and offer a much wider range of brighter colours.

They grow from small, tough corms which have a tiny foot, like Colchicum. It is a large genus spread throughout the Mediterranean region through Ethiopia to southern Africa. The Southern African species include the most varied and colourful in the genus.

The species listed grow on a Mediterranean cycle, wintergreen with a dry warm summer rest. They are excel as pot or pan subjects, and can be planted out in a sunny, well drained loam soil regions where other Mediterranean plants or bulbs do well.

Ordering possible from Autumn list only.

Romulea bulbocodium

(grandiflora)

The easiest and perhaps the best species for outdoor growth in the garden with 2-3cm long tubular flowers of lovely blue-violet with a white and yellow throat, held on a short wiry stem above very narrow wiry leaves.

This is a new, cultivated stock, originally selected from Apulia, Italy. It is a nice form with large, well-coloured flowers.


Romulea bulbocodiumrombulbul	£4.00
Flowering sized but naturally small. Large view

Romulea bulbocodium leichtliniana

We have just a few corms of this lovely Cretan colour form with very pale flowers – virtually white in fact, each with a lovely yellow throat.


Romulea bulbocodium leichtlinianarombullei	£3.00
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Romulea bulbocodium palustris


Romulea bulbocodium palustrisrombulpal	£4.50

Romulea linaresii graeca

The smaller flowered form from Greece and Crete with more intense purple flowers and purple filaments which contrast with the yellow anthers.


Romulea linaresii graecaromlingra	£3.00

Romulea tempskyana

A little known species from the eastern Mediterranean, specifically Cyprus and Turkey, with flowers in an intense shade of deep violet. The throat is an even deeper shade, contrasted with a small central boss of bright yellow anthers. The flowers sit on short, very stiff stems, almost at ground level. A superb little plant if an unique and intense colouring.

Ideal in a pot or pan, but hardy enough to go outside in a sunny, gritty, well-drained spot. Raised from an EJH collection made in Milas province, S. W. Turkey at 1400 m. Naturally tiny, but flowering sized corms.


Romulea tempskyanaromtemtem	£3.50
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