Description
A free-flowering clone first found in a churchyard in Grootebroek, Netherlands in 1965.
It increases vegatatively underground, but unlike many of the normal forms this does not make “self destructive increase” – by which I mean increase by repeated production of long stolons with many tiny new bulbs at the end. This cultivar instead makes just a few offsets, leading to a small, tidy clump and it flowers regularly! One of the most charming wild species with the bonus of a lovely light fragrance. The slow increase means however that it is only once in a blue moon that we are able to offer this form.
As this plant is later into leaf than many, the early season ills of physical damage and disease, seem to plague it less.