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Following on from the 'early flowering' list here is the main offering.Â
Items marked with * will flower relatively soon.
Please let me know if you wish to receive an email reminder when the list is next updated.
The bulbs and corms offered are spares from my personal collection. Most are seed raised. They are not the 'fat' bulbs of commerce but should be healthy and true to name. Numbers available are small - just a few spares from my collection.
Many items are in short supply, I will endeavour to keep availability updated.
The numbers next to some items are my accession numbers, the way I catalogue the crocus collection. Plants originating from wild collected seed will have the collectors number shown in italics.
While offered for sale I am also open to offers of other bulbs in exchange. Please email if you may have something of interest.
Please email your order to thealpinehouse22@gmail.com
Payment by cheque, Paypal or Bank Transfer. Postage & Packing at cost.
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Colchicum aggripinum *
£2 each Now replanted as growth begins
Strongly chequered flowers from this easy garden species. The leaves which follow in spring are narrow and dwarf.
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Colchicum boissieri Dark Form *
£4 for 4 small corms needing a year or two to flower
A special species, rarely offered. It forms twig like corms. This dark pink form came from plantsman Roger Poulett over twenty years ago. The flowers are elegant goblets, surprisingly large for the delicate corms.
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Colchicum cupanii ex var bertolinii *
£2 each 2 available
Generous with it's flowers, these seedlings from var bertolinii just lack the elegance of the original collection.  Grown outside here in a sunny raised bed.  Flowering in October as the tidy leaves emerge.
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Colchicum macrophyllum *
Now replanted as growth begins
The name accounts for the massive glossy green pleated leaves that appear in spring - a feature in themselves. The large, chequered flowers are generously produced in autumn. It's been outside here, unprotected in a well drained raised bed for many years, slowly increasing. Rarely offered.
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Colchicum speciosum album *
£2.50 each  Replanted as growth begins
The much sought after white form. Large wine glass flowers on strong tubes in autumn. An excellent garden plant for an open site where the leaves have space to expand in spring.
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Crocus serotinus salzmannii 99-07
£2 each Sold out
Raised from the veined form collected long ago by Vic Horton under the collectors number VH556. Â Easy and vigorous, a species I have grown outside in a sunny well drained raised bed.
Scilla lingulata ciliolata *
£1.00 each 9 available
Late summer, early autumn, the flowering stem on this form may reach 10cm high, in appearance somewhat like a miniature hyacinth. Â (It's now known as Hyacinthoides lingulata but I have retained the name I received it under.) Â In this form the leaves are prostrate and usually appear slightly after the flower stem. Â Hardy under cold glass but in the open garden the leaves suffer in frosty weather.
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Allium akaka
£4 each - at or near flowering size
A Turkish species with broad, pleated leaves. Flowering long after the main flush of Spring bulbs, these are seed raised offspring from bulbs given to me by bulb aficionado, Alan Edwards many years ago. They have dark red narrow petalled flowers in a large, short stemmed umbel. The plant is rarely offered, I do not know of anyone else offering this form.
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Corydalis malkensis
£3 2 available
Seed raised, small bulbs that should be flowering size. Once settled in the garden it can self sow, the seeds ripening inside the green capsules only a few weeks after flowering.  Avoid over-dry conditions in summer if growing in pots.
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Crocus vernus 63-13
£1.50 each Sold Out
Take a chance on these as yet unflowered seedlings - or at least unphotographed as yet. The two corms offered are flowering size. This accession was raised from seed of the plants pictured, a collected form HK1988/12
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Hyacinthella leucophaea ssp atchleyi
£2 each  2 available
Growing to about 15cm, early flowering, this is a plant with a quiet charm. Raised here from seed over twenty years ago it has slowly increased.
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Ipheon Rolf Fiedler
£1 each  5 available
Much the most compact and elegant of the many Ipheon cultivars now offered.  Flat faced flowers of a good mid-blue held erect. Less prone to flop than other species, I have exhibited this with success at AGS shows in the past.
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Narcissus bulbocodium
£4 for six assorted sizes
I call this the 'Long Corona' form. Â it's a very good doer, the potful pictured was considered for a Farrer Medal. Â I gave a pot of spares to a friend and they did achieve that award a couple of years later.
Narcissus romieuxii
sold out
A pale creamy yellow form/hybrid of this winter flowering narcissus. Â Here in East Anglia often in flower early in the new year.
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Narcissus x minicycla
£5 each  Sorry all sold
The old cross between Narcissus asturiensis and Narcissus cyclamineus. Truly dwarf, just a few cm tall. I grow it in humus rich compost in semi-shaded position, keeping it cool and slightly moist in summer. Slow to increase and rarely offered. Naturally small bulbs at or approaching flowering size.
Nothoscordum felipponei
£1.50 each  2 available
Also known as: Beauverdia sellowiana, Ipheion sellowianum, Nothoscordum sellowianum and False Yellow Crocus. A pot under cold glass suits. A South American bulb, it can remain dormant for a whole year if not sufficiently watered in autumn. Very striking when it does bother to come up :-) Rarely offered.
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Romulea atranda
£3 for 2 4 available
A South African species, crocus-like flowers, roughly crocus sized in Spring.  Beautifully feathered buds open to reveal shocking pink flowers.  A stunner, flowers are more robust than crocuses and this species has been hardy outside here for several years in a sunny raised bed.
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Scilla nana (syn Chionodoxa cretica)
£2 each 7 available
Raised from wild collected seed over twenty years ago. The late Marcus Harvey wrote: "From two, narrow leaves a short spike of up to 4 soft blue blooms, each with a white eye, is borne in late winter. These flowers open out to flat-stars and this serves to separate them from the other Cretan species, C. albescens. A very rare item." Easy in a pot under cold glass, it should be hardy in the garden too. As far as I know no-one else offers it.
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Scilla peruviana
£5 for a cluster of bulbs with at least 5 'noses'  3 lots available
A very showy garden plant, flowering here in a warm, dry border in May. Offered are divisions from the clump pictured which became congested this year through bulb increase. Offered are clumps of conjoined bulbs with several noses which will need a year to settle in before flowering.
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Tulipa cretica
£3 each sold out
Very dwarf species tulip. White flowers marked pink on exterior. These are seed raised, in their fourth season and flowered for the first time this year. Naturally small bulbs which grow very deep in nature. In six inch deep pots the bulbs produce droppers with small bulbs at the end which may escape through the base of the pot. In the past when I failed to repot one year, all the bulbs escaped into the sand plunge in this way!
Amana edulis
£5 each SORRY SOLD OUT
Very early flowering dwarf species. Â Tough and hardy in the garden here but also great in a pot under cold glass. Â Reddish maroon striped outer petals open to reveal pure white flowers.
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Colchicum cupani var bertolinii SL289 *
£4 each Sold Out
A superb form, grown outside in the garden here for over a decade. These have been increased from the original 1996 sowing of seed from a wild collection.
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Corydalis tauricola
£3 each - sold out
Soft dusky pink flowers in early spring. A form I have grown for many years, it has slowly increased. Easy in a pot under cold glass.
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Corydalis wendelboi
£4 each  Sold Out
Slightly more lax habit than Corydalis tauricola, it benefits from good light to help keep it compact. Rarely offered.
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Crocus goulimyi
9-94
£1.50 each sold out
Nice robust form that I have been growing for over twenty years.
Crocus goulimyi leucanthus 70-05
£1.50 each sorry - sold out
Autumn flowering
A pale lilac form of Crocus goulimyi. Raised from my own seed. Â Some are slightly bicoloured but all are pale lilac, possibly the result of hybridisation between white leucanthus and blue goulimyi.
Crocus goulimyi leucanthus 58-00
£3.00 each sold out
Another pale lilac flushed form of this attractive autumn species
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Crocus kotschyanus mixed
£1.50 each Sold Out
Mixed forms of this easy garden species which increases by producing rice grain cormlets. Never a weed it can make an impressive display. The 'trade' form rarely flowers due to virus infection but these healthy corms will flower reliably.
Narcissus albidus occidentalis SF16
£2 each  sorry - sold out
Winter flowering. White hoop petticoat with narrow ray florets. Hardy but best under cold glass.
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Scilla ingridae var taurica
£2 each  Sold Out
A delicate, early flowering squill from seasonally moist high meadows in Turkey
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Crocus goulimyi ex HK1989/35
£1.50 each  Sold out
Seed raised from a form collected in the wild. Another nice form, long in cultivation.
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Colchicum montanum 'Norman Barrett' *
£2 each sold out
Bright pink strap-petalled flowers appear suddenly in late summer. This is the broad petalled form sometimes exhbited at shows .  Hardy outside but very dwarf and needs careful siting.
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Crocus cvijicii
£8 each  Sold out
Rarely offered, this high mountain species is to my eye the most beautiful of the yellow crocuses. It likes cool and just a little moisture in summer, not a baking.  Only increased by seed, the corms offered are at least four years old and should be flowering size.
Crocus kerndorffiorum x leichtlinii
£5 each  Sorry sold out very fast!
Not offered elsewhere, this hybrid has flowers of a very unusual shade, similar to Crocus leictlinii and have purple markings on the outer petals.  It has taken me over ten years to work this up from a couple of corms.  A very special and eyecatching crocus.
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Crocus rujanensis 65-09
£2 each  Sold Out
From Albania/FYR Macedonia. Close to the 'sublimis/atticus/nivalis' group in appearance. These home raised seedlings have large flowers, some with a white band around the yellow throat, reminiscent of Crocus sublimis tricolor forms.
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Crocus sieberi
£4 each  Sold Out
A mixture of forms of this delicious Cretan mountain crocus all raised from seed. Mostly white ground colour with variable purple markings on the exteriors.  It has a reputation for not being fully hardy, in my experience this is undeserved. I grow it in unheated cold frames and have not suffered any losses with air temperatures down to -10C. It's time I tried it outside.
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Crocus sieberi 86-09
£4 each Sold Out
A nice form, white with good purple markings, raised from my own seed. Cultivation comments above apply here too.
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Crocus tommasinianus ex Pictus
£2 each  Sorry all gone
Seedlings raised from the dark tipped form known as 'Pictus'. They are variable so I can offer no guarantees as to exactly what you will get but the picture gives an idea of the variation. From a beautiful and eye catching potful.