Description
A splendid Crocus relative from the mountains of Lebanon, but despite what you are already thinking, this has been fully hardy here over very many years, don’t dismiss it or you will miss a very good plant! In fact in the wild it is a snow-melt species, growing and flowering in the short meadow grasses and wet soils at the edges of receding snow patches in Spring.
Narrow, wiry leaves with good sized flowers, especially for a Romulea. This flowers late in the Romulea season, late March into early April. The flowers are said to be variable in the wild from white, white with purple on the reverse and purple. All of the colour forms have a contrasting yellow throat and all are formed in the characteristic cone shape of Romulea.
A little known plant that we are only able to offer infrequently as it is sparing with offsets and slow from seed. Easily grown in a loam-based compost, perhaps best under alpine-glass where quite a few can be packed into a small pot or pan, but growable outdoors in a sunny, fertile, well-drained spot.
