Description
My notes from 1973, when I first found this species in Southern Spain (without knowing what it was in those days), say “looks like an orange-flowered bluebell with a green base”. bang on! I still have a soft spot for it.
An alpine house pan is fine for cultivation and the species does very well like this, making a super display but perhaps it may survive in a choice spot in a very mild garden in the UK. In a Mediterranean climatic-zone garden it will of course do very well outside.
Its main flowering is in late spring but sometimes this can make a spike of flowers 2 or 3 times a year without any apparent regard for the season.
