Description
Starting a few hundred years ago this poor plant was taken into cultivation, selected, bred and then over-fattened into the modern garden monstrosities. Here instead we offer you the graceful plant from which it all started.
This has a single-sided spike of pale blue, very sweetly scented, flowers early in the year. The wild subspecies chionophilus (‘snow-loving’) grows at higher altitudes and differs from the type in having slightly larger, but paler blue, flowers.
Easy in a sunny spot in a well-drained but fertile soil and this makes a beautiful display in time, scenting the air around on a warm still early-spring day, it will do the same under alpine glass where it will open earlier in the season.
