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Romulea bulbocodium
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Erythronium revolutum
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Sanguinaria canadensis p43
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has resulted in more (and more timely) propagation of plants and a tidier nursery. We Mid Lambrook
South Petherton,
also find that as a consequence we are much ‘greener’ - our electricity costs (running Somerset
cold stores) are 41% lower. Our small solar array now generates 35% of the electricity TA13 5HE
that we use. Our use of diesel (transport to shows) is now under 10% of what we were
spending pre Covid.
On the other hand we have never shied away from the fact that a proportion of what
we sell is bought in, very mainly from Holland. It is now (post Brexit) much more costly
in effort, time and cash to obtain bulbs from Europe. Until recently I could order bulbs More
on a Monday knowing that they would be with us the same week at very little additional Information
cost. I now anticipate at least a month to get all the permissions, licences and
documents in order. At the same time a greater number of growers in England (and The website allows much more
Europe) are retiring from horticulture and it is becoming more difficult to source the detail about individual plants
sort of interesting plant material that we are happy to list. Were we all 30 years younger and we are gradually building
there are probably new opportunities in UK horticulture for enterprising young growers, up that information source,
but I am afraid that it is ‘different’ now with the costs of starting up much higher with so do have a look online if
increasing pressure to reach an efficient (large) size more quickly. That makes ‘niche’ you are left wanting to know
horticulture and plant specialisation more difficult. Customers in Europe (and Northern more about a particular plant
Ireland) will be disappointed to know that the costs of getting orders inspected to or family and their suggested
provide Phytosanitary Certificates far exceeds what might have been expected and planting instructions. Individual
what is reasonable and we cannot, as a result, send orders outside of GB. planting suggestions are
provided again when you get
Last year I experimented with a catalogue arranged in a flowering order rather than
sent your order.
alphabetically. I only received a few emails to say that it was unhelpful (and rather fewer
from folk who indeed liked it) but on balance we found that we too needed to use the The website also indicates
Index rather too much! Something that we normally do not need. The order has now availability and if an item is
returned to an alphabetic one within the ‘seasons’ that the catalogue covers and as a Sold Out it will be indicated
result there is no Index. there. This is particularly useful
for later orders.
I would encourage our customers to order early. With news of shortages likely I had
to order from Holland in March what I thought that I might sell this autumn (something If an item is marked Out of
I am usually reluctant to do till the end of May) and it may be the case of ‘when it Season you can “Register
has gone, it has gone’. It was also a ‘weird’ spring as you gardeners will remember, an Interest” and with no
too wet in February, too dry in April and it only warmed up in mid May. All that may commitment receive an email
affect harvests and bulb sizes so putting an order in early should ensure that you get back when it is next in stock
whatever we have available that you need. It will cost you nothing more as we only and can be ordered.
charge your card accounts as we despatch the order.
There are occasionally varieties
Successful Gardening! that missed the catalogue and
get listed online.
Chris Ireland-Jones
ii Avon Bulbs Mail Order Catalogue Autumn 2021
LATE SUMMER 2021
Bulbs that mostly flower in the autumn, shortly after planting or else ones that much prefer
early autumn planting despite being spring flowering.
We aim to deliver orders made from this section ahead of orders for the Autumn section in mid August to early September. Please
use the form at the end of this section.
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Acis autumnalis Acis nicaeensis Amaryllis purpurea major Colchicum autumnale
ACIS AMARYLLIS
autumnalis The Amaryllis and their hybrids
Slender wiry green or russety are winter growing and flower
coloured stems, carrying delicate before they come into leaf in the
looking white papery bells. They autumn. South African in origin
were thought to be autumn they consequently require more
flowering forms of the snowflake sheltered positions, we have some
(Leucojum) family but are now in a that do well every year at the base
of a south facing wall which is (in
distinct group of their own. Ideal for
Somerset) good enough. In cold
a trough or container that stays that
areas one might need to grow them
much drier. Naturally small bulbs, in pots that one can protect them
only the size of large peas which further. They enjoy a hot summer
get planted close together. baking when they are without their
1” (3cm) leaves and planting them too deep
Aug / Sept 9” (22cm) means that the soil might not get
106-10 £8.00 for 5 warm enough to suit them. These
are the ‘simple’ species types,
nicaeensis not Hippeastrum which are easily
A spring flowering French confused and are of hybrid origin
Snowflake – they were in the and generally ‘treated’ to flower in
the winter. Amaryllis x Parkeri alba Colchicum autumnale album
Leucojum family but have now
been split off to become Acis. They
hail from a small area in southwest
France where they live in limestone
purpurea major
Tall stemmed with a slightly lop-
COLCHICUM autumnale
Softly, satin-sheened in mauve.
crevices. Here they are an alpine sided flower arrangement of Easy to grow in reasonably deep
They naturalise most effectively
needing some winter protection and magnificent pale pink fragrant moisture-retentive soil, these appear
either in sun or partial shade where
a drier summer rest. In flower they trumpets. The earliest to flower of from their summer dormancy without
their leaves to flower in the autumn they often produce several flowers
have a flattened bell-shaped white all the Amaryllis. We will try and lift from each corm. An easy British
– hence their common name of
flower over rather lax leaves. them early (to dissuade them from native known as Meadow Saffron,
‘naked ladies’. A pointer to the end
3” (8cm) flowering for a bit longer) but for late of summer, their bright flowers last Wychwood Forest has thousands
Spring 8” (20cm) orders they may well have flowered. incredibly well considering their flowering each autumn.
106-11 £9.50 for 3 9-12” (20-30cm) apparent fragility. The leaves appear 4” (10cm)
August 24” (60cm) in the early spring. They need Sept 6” (15cm)
56-15 £7.50 73-05 £13.00 for 3
planting 3” (8cm) deep - perhaps a
little more for ones with bigger bulbs
x parkeri alba – and 6” (15cm) apart. They will autumnale
A hybrid form (Amaryllis x Brunsvigia) naturalise effectively, but the mower
which forms big, rounded bulbs will have to be restrained until the
album
The white-flowered form of the
and flowers with apple-white hugely leaves wither away in June.
**Please order early – after the species above, although some
scented trumpets.
end of September they seem are pinkish-white. They tolerate
9-12” (20-30cm)
Aug/Sept 12” (30cm) to flower regardless of the full sun but are especially useful
56-10 £8.50 conditions** in some shade in damp, but not
= suggested plant spacing
waterlogged conditions.
in garden situations 3” (8cm)
Flowering time Flowering height Sept 6” (15cm)
Item Code Price 73-06 £10.00 for 3
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Colchicum speciosum Colchicum Waterlily
Colchicum byzantinum Innocence Colchicum x agrippinum Colchicum speciosum album
byzantinum speciosum WaterLily x agrippinum
Innocence album A multi-petalled variety which A smaller plant that the others we
Thickly textured goblet shaped The very best Colchicum which has opens out widely in the sun with list and one to treasure in a raised
flowers in white with purple tips been lost to commerce for many multiple flower stems, flowering bed or in a trough. The flowers
to the very ends of the petals and years and sorely missed except somewhat later than the others. open nearly flat with pointed tips,
styles. Big bulbs which provide an that I had a call from Scotland Surprisingly resilient to the weather covered in wonderful darker pinkish
eye-catching combination when where some grow ‘nearly wild’ – despite its appearance. purple tessellations (chequering).
they come to flower. would I like some? Of course! The 6” (15cm) An unusual and special plant of
Oct 6” (15cm) which we only have a small number,
4” (10cm) assurance is that there will be quite
73-23 £13.00 for 3 but none too difficult if you have the
Sept 6” (15cm) a few but I have yet to see them, so
73-25 £18.50 for 3 these are sold on a ‘promise’ and I right place.
may yet have egg on my face. Big 3” (8cm)
speciosum bold goblet shaped flowers in pure Sept 4” (10cm)
The best of the larger forms for 73-19 £5.50
white, ideal for part shade.
most gardens, these spread and 4” (10cm)
naturalise effectively. Stronger Sept/Oct 8” (20cm)
stemmed and later flowering than C. 73-16 £20.00 for 3
autumnale with longer flower stems
and more richly coloured thick,
We believe the plants where you
rounded, rosy pink-lilac petals. see this symbol to be particularly
4” (10cm) = suggested plant spacing
in garden situations
Insect friendly beneficial to pollinating insects
Sept / Oct 8” (20cm) Flowering time Flowering height Plants such as bees, butterflies, moths
73-15 £11.50 for 3 Item Code Price and hover flies.
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CROCUS AUTUMN
FLOWERING FOR MS
Flowering in the late autumn (except
for one that flowers in the very early
spring) These Autumn flowering
Crocuses bloom as a reaction to
the lowering of the soil temperatures
(and the dampening of the soil) at
the end of the summer. The spring
flowering forms (listed in the Autumn
section of our catalogue) flower as
the soil temperatures rise. Some of
these are more difficult to grow than
others, but C. speciosus should be
a feature of any garden providing
a dreamy violet splash of colour in
late September and October (and
is probably the easiest). We may be
able to add some more varieties to
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Crocus goulimyi Mani White
Susan Bland
goulimyi sativus
Mani White The source of Saffron: gathered
We inadvertently and very carelessly by collecting the tiny bright red
Crocus nudiflorus Crocus speciosus
muddled up the ‘ordinary’ C. stigmata from each flower (it takes
goulimyi and the Mani white some half a million per kilo! thereby
years ago and have finally sorted justifying the huge cost of Saffron).
them out. They are too Grecian They need deep planting in rich soil,
in origin for ‘ordinary’ outdoor in a sunny position and probably
conditions in the UK, but in well need lifting and dividing with
drained compost in a pot to which regularity to encourage flowering.
you can provide some protection Their flower production is triggered
(with a dry summer rest) these are by suddenly colder nights, our
beautiful creamy white flowers. maritime climate sometimes does
Stock limited. not provide that, which makes
2” (5cm) guaranteeing one’s own Saffron
Nov 5” (12cm) production a bit uncertain.
77-33 £9.00 for 3 3” (8cm)
Oct 4” (10cm)
77-20 £16.50 for 30
nudiflorus
Easy to grow in the garden and
even individual flowers popping speciosus
up are a joy, but difficult to The best autumn crocus.
commercialise as they dislike Dramatically effective, deep lilac
cultivation. Hence rarely offered and to purple hues, with bright yellow
likely to be small bulbed. But a fairly anthers. Good in light shade or
tall, dark flowered crocus well able under deciduous shrubs, or in
to grow in short grass, they form light grass, planted deeply. They
stolons and so tend to move in the will flower later than suggested
soil and set seed so one hopes will in their first year, consequent to
increase one way or another. them having been out of the soil
and dried off in this summer. Do
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2” (5cm) but probably
much more get enough of them! Suggested
Oct 5” (12cm) planting density 15 per sq. ft.
77-42 £9.00 for 3 3” (8cm)
Sept / Oct 5” (12cm) Crocus sativus
77-26 £5.00 for 15 or £15.00 for 50
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Gladiolus tristis Crocus tournefortii Nerine flexuosa alba
speciosus albus HIPPEASTRUM
All white flowered, great for a
contrast amongst the others or a x acramannii
bright creamy white splash all on I have in the past alluded to doubts
their own. over the spelling of this name, but I
3” (8cm) have been pointed to EB Anderson’s
Sept/Oct 5” (12cm) “Seven Gardens” and am more
77-27 £6.50 for 15
than content to follow his lead and
stick with this one. He grew this
tournefortii plant out of doors at Porlock in the
Large flowered in pale lavender, 1960s. Having been shown a private
sometimes white. Strangely the greenhouse full of these bulbs in
flowers do not close in dull light or flower many years ago near Taunton
at night. Cretan in origin so they and admired them hugely (only later
require some shelter. to find that the owner passed away
3” (8cm) soon after and his greenhouse had
Sept / Oct 5” (12cm) been demolished) it was much later
77-38 £9.00 for 3
that I was offered a stock from the Isle
of Man and jumped at the second
GLADIOLUS opportunity. These multiply well under
unheated glass for us, however
tristis reading about them I find that others
Native to South Africa, but not quite suggest that they are hardier than
hardy enough to trust outdoors full one anticipates, confirmed by letters
time, even here. A very special winter from much more northern customers.
growing Gladiolus with a wonderful They are early autumn flowering in red
scent in the evenings – believe me, it and green and are in leaf all winter,
does not scent by day but come the more dormant in summer, although
evening….! Presumably moths are the maybe come into flower earlier than
pollinator. It really needs a sheltered they would out of doors. Very limited Hippeastrum x acramannii
site, providing protection from numbers available this year.
temperatures lower than about -5°C 9-12” (20-30cm)
as they are in leaf through January Aug / Sept 18” (45cm)
and February. The apple white flowers 56-14 £13.00
open progressively up the long rush-
like stems and produce a generous
seed set.
NERINE
3” (8cm) flexuosa alba
April / May 3’ (90cm) A winter growing species (all
88-15 £15.00 for 3
the others we grow are summer
growing) so these require a bit
more shelter. The frilly white petals
however last ages in flower and
in sheltered gardens are a treat in
the autumn.
6” (15cm)
Sept / Oct 14” (35cm)
33-23 £9.50 for 3
Insect friendly
Plants Crocus speciosus albus
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Romulea bulbocodium Tecophilaea cyanocrocus leichtlinii Tropaeolum tricolor
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Scilla autumnalis Tecophilaea cyanocrocus violacea Veltheimia bracteata
ROMULEA TECOPHILAEA TROPAEOLUM VELTHEIMIA
bulbocodium Chilean bulbs from a high altitude, A winter-growing form of these Originating in South Africa on the
A small crocus-like bulbs from the so one would expect them to climbing plants, they start to grow edge of the Karoo desert these are
be cold tolerant, but where they in late September and flower in late bulbous house plants here. Winter
Mediterranean where it grows in
come from is relatively dry, and our spring. Their hardiness is probably growing with flowers late autumn
sandy or rocky places. A sun lover
winters are really too wet for them. limited if temperatures fall below and winter they like to receive fairly
which we would suggest is pot If possible, grow them under some about -5°C for any extended period good light levels but are generally
grown and brought in for winter just protection (particularly from rain) but they are actually happier grown very easy to look after with a long
to keep them drier, some suggest and you’ll be amazed by the depth somewhere cool rather than too flowering period and in the summer
that they don’t even need this of colour in the flowers. Their blue is warm. Grow in pots with something a drier resting period.
attention. Velvety open flowers in like the dazzling displays produced to climb up and then protect them
shades of lilac and purple.
1” or less (2cm)
by some exotic butterflies. during only the very coldest weather. bracteata
Glossy leaved beauties with broad,
Spring
199-01
3” (8cm)
£7.00 for 3
cyanocrocus tricolor rather succulent-like foliage and
leichtlinii
Exhibiting shoals of stunning red, upright spikes of flowers that just
White centred with gentian blue black and yellow flowers that last call out for a hummingbird to
SCILLA petals. ages in flower. A climber that starts pollenate them!
3” (9cm) into growth very early in the autumn 6” (15cm)
autumnalis March 5” (12cm) so early ordering is a must. One of Winter 18” (45cm)
Hardy, but uncommon small bulbed 128-04 £11.00 for 3 the most spectacular plants that we 170-01£8.50
natives of the south-west of the UK, sell, and a favourite of mine.
these are incredibly long-lasting in cyanocrocus 6” (15cm)
flower. Bright blue flowers up a fine Spring climbing up to 4’ (120cm)
wiry stem. They need a sunny, well- violacea 47-06 £4.50 or £12.00 for 3
drained soil. Amazingly brilliant dark blue petals.
3” (9cm) = suggested plant spacing
3” (9cm) in garden situations
March 5” (12cm)
Aug/Oct 5” (12cm) Flowering time Flowering height
128-06 £11.00 for 3
125-18 £7.00 for 3 Item Code Price
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The following bulbs can be included on either a Late Summer or an Autumn order
form as stocks allow.
If you order them alone they will be sent as soon as we can, but order them with anything else and their ‘delivery season’
will be determined by what else you order. They would all benefit from earlier planting if possible.
CYCLAMEN
These are all hardy, tough and
perennial and once established will
seed about. If you order and plant
them early these Cyclamen will arrive
dormant and ready to pop in and
awake in their new circumstances.
Ordering them from the Autumn
section, means that there will probably
be some growth visible on them.
These are all from seed, UK grown -
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mostly our own.
Cyclamen coum Cyclamen coum album Cyclamen coum Dark Pink Cyclamen coum Roseum
SPRING coum album coum dark pink coum roseum
White flowered, but even the white Tubers that have been selected for Graded for flower colour in the spring
FLOWERING FORMS ones have a dark pink ‘nose’. their dark pink flowers. so these are larger tubered and all
5” (13cm) 5” (13cm) will show pale pink flowers with the
coum Feb / March Feb / March characteristically darker ‘nose’.
In their first or second flowering 51-118 £15.00 for 3 51-131 £15.00 for 3 5” (13cm)
season these were not graded
Feb / March
for colour in the spring so may be 51-117 £15.00 for 3
white or pink flowered but will be
generally smaller in size than the
colour selected forms of C. coum
below which are all a year older.
5” (13cm)
Feb / March
51-116 £15.00 for 5
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Cyclamen coum Maurice Dryden Cyclamen pseudibericum
Cyclamen coum Silver Leaf Cyclamen libanoticum Cyclamen repandum
coum Silver Leaf coum Maurice pseudibericum repandum
The rounded leaves are largely Dryden Possibly slightly more tender than Better in more sheltered conditions
silvery patterned, so a few tubers These are silver leaved and white the bone hardy C. coum and and certainly needing more
planted amongst others with more flowered, sometimes with a pink flowering a little later than coum shade and leaf mould in the soil
green leaves increases the variety blush. The form honouring the does. The leaves are marbled in where they need to be planted
of the green tapestry, their flowers husband of the great Kath Dryden - white and the flowers are mainly more deeply. Only properly hardy
are mostly pink. Alpinist of note, kindness personified, pink with darker blotches and a in the south, though special
5” (13cm) although her bark was effective! white throat. Hardy enough to grow circumstances may affect that
Feb / March 5” (13cm) outside in the south, but a lovely generalisation, small bulbs which
51-119 £6.00 plant for the alpine house anywhere. need careful handling - I feel that
Feb / March
51-06 £6.50 5” (13cm) I am using too many caveats! The
March / April positives are many - they provide
51-35 £6.50
libanoticum spicily fragrant, deep carmine-
Less hardy than C. coum and really coloured flowers in late spring and
requiring winter protection against like the others they do set seed and
the wet in particular. Strongly spicily spread where happy.
scented – with long lasting pale 5” (13cm)
pink flowers. = suggested plant spacing April / May
in garden situations 51-129 £6.50
5” (13cm)
Flowering time Flowering height
March / April
Item Code Price
51-34 £6.50
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Cyclamen africanum Iris unguicularis Iris unguicularis Mary Barnard
Cyclamen hederifolium Iris unguicularis Marondera Iris unguicularis Walter Butt
AUTUMN IRIS unguicularis u. Mary
FLOWERING FORMS UNGUICULARIS (STYLOSA)
The species plant with pale mauve Barnard
flowers, the standards slightly paler The darkest of them all and a glossy
and more silvery. A tough survivor
africanum A firm favourite for the winter
garden. They need a sunny site and even in poor soil conditions.
marvel in the winter. Tissue-like
Leathery leaved and in leaf through velvety purple blue flowers with
are often found growing in rubble 12” (30cm) white and golden markings on the
the winter and spring after which they
right up against the house wall Feb / March 15” (38cm)
falls, the foliage shorter and darker
need a perfectly dry summer rest. or in very poor soils, but they will 102-04 £7.50
Large, more rounded, pink flowers than the other forms. Discovered by
perform even better if the growing
in the late autumn. Best in fairly E.B. Anderson near Algiers in 1962.
light conditions and because they
conditions are not too harsh. u. Marondera 12” (30cm)
Avoid the inclination to shear off Bigger flowered than the ‘ordinary’
are tender, they are limited in most Feb / March 15” (38cm)
the untidy foliage in the summer, unguicularis and slightly darker, 102-05 £9.00
circumstances to protected cultivation. instead rake out some of the dead this is a strain that goes back to a
6-8” (15-20cm) leaves in the early autumn and give
Oct / Nov the plant some water and a liquid
garden in the town of that name in u. Walter Butt
51-36 £4.00 feed at the same time. It is then Zimbabwe (where Chris was raised). Palest of pale ice blues with some
that they make their new roots and It is as good and tough as all the fine purple veining, drawing one’s
others, and now like him goes back
hederifolium are initiating their flower buds so
a long way.
attention to the fact that they are not
These tubers may not have flowered that should result in more flowers in white. Longer leaved and with more
the following winter. New divisions 12” (30cm) upright, paler, foliage. The first form
last autumn so may be pink or white
need careful planting and firming Feb / March 15” (38cm)
(though pink will dominate). The to flower with the largest flowers
in, regular watering till established 102-13 £9.00
petals sweep up and away from and the most scented too.
and possibly some protection in 12” (30cm)
the flower and in the spring (and for
their first winter. Nov / Feb 18” (45cm)
much of the year after) the ground
102-06 £9.00
will be carpeted in their ivy-leaf
shaped leaves. = suggested plant spacing
6-8” (15-20cm) in garden situations
Aug / Oct Flowering time Flowering height
51-107 £9.00 for 3 Item Code Price
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Bulbs that need Early Planting this Autumn
You may include any plants or bulbs from the preceding pages as well as
any ‘non seasonal items’ such as Gloves, Books, Cards, Pots etc.
Please specify plants and costs here, and complete the other side of the form
Stock Price & No of
item code Plant name Pack Sz Packs
£
106-10 Acis autumnale (EXAMPLE ONLY) 8.00/5 2 16.00
Lilium candidum
Narcissus Paperwhite Ziva
LILIUM
candidum
A lily that is better started off early, even in
October some are beginning to show their
leaves. Inevitably the first orders get the pick
of the crop, so ordering from this section has
its benefits.
6” (15cm)
June 36” (90cm)
107-114 £7.00 or £20.00 for 3
NARCIS SUS
Also see the main Autumn Catalogue pages
38 for the main Narcissus listing. From an early subtotal
planting these can help overcome the mid-winter
blues in the house, but planted relatively late (late
December) they are actually easier to care for
The normal postage and packing costs on any Late carriage
Summer Order is £5.95 (UK Mainland only) Orders over
and to reuse because the foliage does not get so £100 are sent free of P&P
leggy and they can go outside after flowering in total
March, by when most of the cold has gone. They
will still need a hot dry resting phase in August.
The example at the top shows the information we need – in particular, the item code given at
the bottom left of the plant’s entry.
Paperwhite Ziva If possible, specify acceptable alternatives in case some of your choices are not available.
Early to flower from being forced; we reckon
on about eight to ten weeks to bloom from
potting, so work your potting date out from If you want your order to be sent as a gift to someone else (invoice to you), tick the box and put the
when you want them in flower. White flowered recipient’s name and address and postcode in the space provided in Other Delivery Instructions.
and multi-headed, with a huge room-filling Is this an order for collection?
perfume. Grow them in good light and at cool Is it a gift?
temperatures without freezing so that they don’t
get too tall, only bringing them in to admire at
room temperatures for their final flourish. Not
reliably hardy.
1-2” (2-4cm) (potted) Please record personal and payment details overleaf
Dec / Jan 15” (38cm)
113-152 £9.00 for 5 or £11.50 for 7
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10 Avon Bulbs Mail Order Catalogue Autumn 2021AUTUMN 2021
Plants and Bulbs to plant in the Autumn, mostly to flower the following spring. Despatch of these items begins in early to mid
September with the intention of sending everything on your order in one parcel. For further information see the ‘Ordering from
Avon Bulbs’ section at the back.
You may include plants and bulbs from the preceding section Cyclamen to Narcissus to be sent with those that follow as Autumn items.
ALLIUM
Alliums are always welcome to gardeners in
the early summer as the flowers offer height
and distinction when most gardens are not
quite so colourful. Their exclamation mark
shape differentiates them from the plants
around them, and those companion plants
in turn ‘hide’ what is sometimes distracting
foliage, which (in most of these Alliums) is
beginning to yellow at flowering time. They
are generally plants of sunny and well-
drained soils, and can be used either in
dramatic eye-catching sweeps, or else, in a
more cottagey style, in isolated small groups
to equally good effect.
Everyone seems to love Alliums and, knowing
that the beneficial insects and bees are
struggling nowadays, it is worth a reminder
that Alliums provide a fantastic food supply
for those insects, especially the late flowering
forms. Our beds of A. angulosum, A.glaucum
and A. tuberosum shimmer with activity on
sunny summer days. Try out a number of
different forms to see which do best in your
circumstances. The results of a trial over the
past years at Wisley have been published in a
useful booklet called the RHS Grower Guide
on Ornamental Onions.
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Allium Ambassador Allium angulosum Allium caeruleum Allium Cameleon
Ambassador angulosum cæruleum Cameleon
Beginning to flower in late May (pyrenaicum) Unusual blue flowered drumstick Naturally small bulbed with early
these flowers should see one Wonderfully easy to grow plants. flowers originating from the steppes summer flowering heads that start
through all of June and into July Bright glossy green leaved with lots of Russia and China. They will do out quite pink and fade to pearl
with very tall stems topped by their of pale lilac flowers in the height best in a well-drained sunny spot or white by when only the ribs retain
mid purple heads about 6” (15cm) of summer when butterflies and rockery where the small bulbs can the pink colouring.
across. Very big bulbed plants hoverflies jostle to feed on them. We be planted quite closely, only 1-2” One for the rockery or for the front
benefitting from deep planting to supply small clumps to be planted (2.5-5cm) apart. of the border in fairly free draining
ensure that the stems remain firmly 9” (22cm) apart, in the sun where 1-2” (3-5cm) soil and good light.
upright. Good seed heads follow it is not too dry. Divide them again
June 18” (45cm) 1-4” (2-10cm)
the main flower show. 53-14 £5.30 for 15 June 18” (45cm)
when they are thick.
8-12” (20-30cm) or more 53-73 £5.50 for 10 or £10.00 for 20
9” (22cm) per clump
June/ July up to 50” (130 cm)
July/Aug 12” (30cm) = suggested plant spacing
53-60 £6.00 or £15.00 for 3 in garden situations
53-28 £8.00 for 3
(divisions, not true bulbs) Flowering time Flowering height
Item Code Price
Tel: 01460 242 177 • Email: info@avonbulbs.co.uk • Website: www.avonbulbs.co.uk 11Allium cernuum Allium cristophii Allium giganteum
Allium cernuum White Master Allium Early Emperor Allium Globemaster
cernuum cristophii Early Emperor Globemaster
Dainty chandeliers formed of If you only ever buy two or three The parentage of this hybrid Probably the best of the large
dozens of small claret pink Alliums, this must be one of them. means that while it is still a big headed Allium hybrids with
flowers hanging off the nodding Sculptural flower heads, initially flower at about 6” (15cm) across exceptionally long lasting flowers.
stems so the bees have to hang greenish purple, are gradually it flowers considerably earlier The first array is replaced by
upside down to get at the flowers, transformed as they are pollenated than the other large headed another second flush of their deep
sometimes several heads form in into metallic silvery-violet coloured Alliums and it is not quite so tall. violet-purple flowers. The insects
a succession. Easy to grow and spheres about 8” (20cm) across, all The flowers are rosy lilac with still love to feed on them, although
seeding themselves in lighter soils borne on quite stocky stems. The contrasting silvery white stamens despite their attentions you’ll not be
in the sun. Delivered as fresh dug round melon sized heads naturally providing a halo like sheen. left with a remnant seed head as
flowering size plants rather than complement the purples of rampant 8” (20cm) they are sterile. Tidier leaved than
dry bulbs. geraniums or the spikier silvery May 30” (75cm) most, even at flowering time. Plant
3-4” (8-10cm) blues of Lavender. Buff coloured 53-68 £11.00 for 3 them about 12” (45cm) apart in well
Summer 18” (45cm) seed heads follow. Plant them drained soils in good light. Great
53-04 £8.30 for 5 8+” (20cm) apart in sunny well giganteum planted with Astrantia ‘Roma’.
drained soils in borders or even Densely filled heads in pale purple 18” (45cm) or more
cernuum White rough grass, they will also grow in the size of a grapefruit top each May/June 40” (100cm)
53-46 £16.00 for 3
Master a degree of shade, but will be taller tall bare stem. A central Asian
The white flowered form of the plant when grown in more shade. species requiring well-drained
8” (20cm) or more soils and a sunny site, by the time
above, just as easy but I suspect
June 10-24” (25-60cm) that they flower the leaves have
that its seed may result in both pink 53-11 £3.00 for 3, £9.00 for 10
and white flowered plants. mostly withered away. Its name is
or £16.00 for 20
3-4” (8-10cm) a reference to its impressive height
Summer 18” (45cm) rather than to an enormous flower.
53-72 £7.50 for 3 A seedhead looking like a grass
thatched hut remains at the end.
We believe the plants where you 8-12” (20-30cm)
see this symbol to be particularly
Insect friendly beneficial to pollinating insects
Late June/July 48” (120cm)
53-20 £15.00 for 3
Plants such as bees, butterflies, moths
and hover flies.
12 Avon Bulbs Mail Order Catalogue Autumn 2021Allium karataviense Allium hyalinum Allium nigrum
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Allium Mount Everest Allium Purple Sensation Allium hollandicum Allium lenkoranicum
hollandicum hyalinum lenkoranicum nigrum
Best for bigger gardens, or A species from California where it A quirky, wispy plant native to (multibulbosum)
wherever you might want a more grows on shady canyon slopes in Azerbaijan and reportedly only Greeny-black ovaries in the centre
subtle and textured display. These the Sierra Nevada around 1200m. discovered in 1987, it increases of each floret provide the reason for
provide that irregularity in colour, Star shaped flowers in pale pink to small clumps fairly readily and the name, though the suggestion
height, size and maturity which with needle like grey leaves, but increases from seed in a sunny of blackness in the name somehow
adds subtlety and charm to any very floriferous. They need good bed in well drained soils. It lasts does not sit so well on what is
planting, especially one on a bigger drainage and drier summer rest. ages in flower, and for the second otherwise a creamy white flower! The
scale. Deep lilac to pale purple Naturally very small bulbed (about half of the year seems never to be flower head shape is less rounded
flowers about the size of an orange. pea sized) setting lots of seed. without flowers. From division and and more flattened and they are
Easy in any free draining soil in the 1-3” (3-9cm) as growing plants. easily grown in sunny well-drained
sun, planted about 6” (15cm) apart. May 12” (30cm) 1” (3cm) soils with a dry summer rest.
6” (15cm) 53-70 £4.00 for 5 Summer 12” (30cm) 4-6” (10-15cm)
May/ June 24-36” (60-90cm). 53-21 £4.50 for 3
June 24” (60cm)
53-08 £4.20 for 5, £7.50 for 10 karataviense 53-24 £5.00 for 5 or £9.00 for 10
or £14.00 for 20
These are very broad leaved and Mount Everest
grow close to the ground with a Probably the best tall white flowered
hollandicum ruby red margin around the leaf Allium. Grapefruit sized heads
Purple Sensation and a white flower tinged pink. Their top a tall glossy green stem. The
An intensely deep purple coloured best use is in full sun on a raised leaves persist, so are not too
strain, with heads the size of small bed or rockery where the foliage obtrusive at flowering time. Lovely
oranges. Another of that select provides a very metallic looking when combined with other strong
group of those ‘must have’ Alliums. and modern effect long before (and coloured flowers such as Gladiolus
They provide purple polka dots after) the flowers. byzantinus, and ideally planted
to your planting scheme, adding 4” (10cm) against a dark backdrop, though
colour, texture and geometric May/June 10” (25cm) some planted in the dappled
53-22 £5.00 for 3 or £13.50 for 9 shade of a Laburnum are great. We
silhouettes to your borders. Derived
from a clone these should all be the suggest that they are planted about
same hue. The RHS trial report said 12” (30cm) apart.
of them: “an excellent performance 12” (30cm) or more
and is reliably perennial”. May/June 36” (90cm)
6” (15cm) 53-43 £11.40 for 3 or £17.30 for 5 Add height with the
May/ June
53-09
35” (90cm)
£4.60 for 5, £8.60 for 10
= suggested plant spacing
in garden situations Allium Collection
or £16.00 for 20 Flowering time
Item Code
Flowering height
Price
on page 62
Tel: 01460 242 177 • Email: info@avonbulbs.co.uk • Website: www.avonbulbs.co.uk 13Allium senescens glaucum Allium schubertii Allium obliquum Allium Purple Rain
Allium Powder Puff Allium nigrum Pink Jewel Allium Pinball Wizard
nigrum Pinball Wizard Purple Rain schubertii
Pink Jewel Fully 6” (15 cm) across, these A product of the cross between Spectacular and eccentric.
A pale pink form of the plant above, heads are not as densely packed A. Purple Sensation (from which Emerging early in the late winter
one which was much admired in the with flowers as those of A. it gains its height and deeper these are at some risk in extreme
earlier Allium trials at RHS Wisley Globemaster, so the effect is rather colouration) and A. cristophii (which winters but when planted in a warm
in 2014. Large domed pale pink more ‘fluffy’ but they are slightly gives it the open structure) with sunny garden and given a dry
heads with dark centres. taller with thick, weather resisting heads about 6” (15cm) across. warm summer rest after flowering
4-6” (10-15cm) stems. The flowers are a mid purple With such popular and eminent they can be fabulous. Like a
May/June 36” (90cm) and a bit earlier flowering than parentage these should be superior tumbleweed, the long spokes are
53-65 £4.50 each most, at their best in mid May. and indeed they performed what they might roll away on when
12” (30cm) or more superbly well in the Allium trials at dry, the seeds held on the shorter
May 40” (100 cm) Wisley and were judged “the best in extensions. A vegetable explosion
obliquum 53-61 £14.00 for 3 the trial”. or firework caught mid burst!
These are Siberian in origin so are
6” (15cm) 15” (38cm) or more
incredibly tough despite being in
leaf all winter. They never really
Powder Puff June 34” (85cm) June 18” (45cm)
(later than Purple Sensation) 53-31 £10.00 for 3
seem to be fully dormant. Their A broad leaved allium with violet
purple flowers about the size 53-67 £4.20 for 5, £7.50 for 10
flowers are the size of large hens’
eggs in June when they eventually of a tennis ball, held on much
or £14.00 for 20 senescens ssp.
straighten from their crook like shorter stems than would normally glaucum
stature to stand erect, greenish- be expected for an Allium with Low growing, quite tussocky plants
yellow in colour and increasingly this size of head. It is a hybrid with narrow twisted blue-green
‘fluffy’. They set lots of seed as well between A. nevskianum and A. foliage. The lilac pompoms which
as forming clumps. sarawschanicum, both from Central are carried in profusion are adored
5” (12cm) Asia. Great for windy sites. The by the insects. They need open
June 24” (60cm) RHS trial reported on them that they sunny conditions. These are lifted
53-26 £10.50 for 3 “bulked up well, one of the best in as fresh dug divisions.
the trial, great for patios or the front 4” (10cm)
of the border”. Please the pollinators Summer 12” (30cm)
Insect friendly 4-6” (10-15cm) 53-30 £6.50 for 3
May/June 15” (35cm) with the Allium
Plants 53-66 £5.70 for 5 Collection on page 62
14 Avon Bulbs Mail Order Catalogue Autumn 2021Allium Violet Beauty Allium tripedale
Allium uniflorum Eros Allium sphaerocephalon Allium siculum Allium tuberosum
siculum sphærocephalon stipitatum tuberosum
(Nectaroscordum) Butterflies love their egg shaped Violet Beauty Treated as much a herb as a
(Now officially in the Allium family) heads (and at their peak they A dusty violet colour with flowers bulb (as are chives) but with a
Tall stemmed (with a pronounced are about the same size). They 4” (10cm) in diameter, spherical long flowering period through the
keel – think of the seam in a pair of emerge as tight, deep green buds except that the base is flattened. summer, the white flowers displayed
tights) leading upwards to dozens in June, turning purple from their This one also did exceptionally well over lush foliage on very wiry stems
of hanging green and burgundy tips through July and swaying in in the RHS Allium trial where its which persist as dry straw-like
marked bells pendulously arranged the summer breezes on long wiry usefulness as a cut flower (it has markers through the winter. They
in a loose head. They enjoy more stems. Woven through a summer a light fragrance) and its increase are multifaceted plants, and brilliant
shade than most true Alliums and border, often as rivers of colour, they over the three years of the trial insect feeding stations too.
seed about enthusiastically in visually ‘tie things together’. Easy impressed the judges. 4” (10cm)
and inexpensive for the effect that Aug/Oct 24” (60cm)
conditions that they like and have 12” (30cm)
they provide, just do plant enough 53-38 £7.50 for 3 (small clumps)
strongly garlic scented foliage when May/June 27” (70cm)
crushed. The bees love them. The of them for a generous display. We 53-71 £4.50 for 5 or £8.00 for 10
dry seed heads look like models of always supply bigger bulbs than unifolium Eros
multi-turreted fairy castles. are generally available, ensuring tripedale Shell pink heads of quite papery
that the flowering will be better as a
3-4” (8-10cm)
result. Plant them 3” (7cm) apart or
(Nectaroscordum) and long lasting flowers, about 15
Early summer 30” (75cm) contained within each head. Easy to
53-32 £4.50 for 5 or £8.00 for 10 10-15 per square foot. Like A. siculum above, but with
grow in any sunny and well drained
3-4” (8-10cm) more numerous flowers in a
spot, especially the rockery. The
Summer 24” (60cm) gorgeous soft pink, which emerge
small bulbs should be planted quite
53-33 £6.80 for 15, £13.00 for 30 like hatchlings from their translucent
close together where their massed
or £19.50 for 50 sheath. Happy in sun or part shade
effect is very attractive.
and not as difficult to grow as the
2” (5cm)
price may suggest, but uncommon May 10” (25cm)
and very select. Persistent and
Need bigger quantities of our bulbs? increasing in our heavy loam in
53-40 £4.00 for 15
some summer shade. How should
There are occasions when our pack sizes are unsuitable for one say the name? I am not sure,
bigger projects or large gardens. If this is the case do email but hope that it should be ‘tripi-dali‘
us for a specific quotation for your requirements. We do not rather than ‘tripe-dale’. = suggested plant spacing
in garden situations
do a ‘trade’ list. You’ll get the same quality of bulbs as all our 3-4” (8-10cm)
Flowering time Flowering height
retail customers. June 36” (100cm) Item Code Price
53-25 £6.50 or £18.00 for 3
Tel: 01460 242 177 • Email: info@avonbulbs.co.uk • Website: www.avonbulbs.co.uk 15ANEMONE
The Anemones mark that moment
when the weather is on the turn for the
better and the stronger light of spring
is accentuated by the shiny wet foliage
resulting from scudding showers
(though these were seemingly absent
in Somerset in 2021) and windy
conditions. This is just what they
love. They open wide in the sunshine
though if the light is only dappled by
dint of still bare branches on the trees
they won’t mind.
However they are not all alike even
when ‘resting’: the bulbous (A. blanda)
forms form hard, wizened corms, which
need an overnight soak before planting
and will take a long hot summer in
their stride. The rhizomatous forms of
wood anemone (A. apennina and A.
nemorosa) need a cooler, shady (but
also dry) rest after they have flowered,
so they prefer more shaded, woodland-
like conditions and, due to hating
exposure to air, the rhizomes will be
damp packed in coir when despatched
by us.
Anemone apennina Anemone blanda blue Anemone blanda Pink Star Anemone blanda White Splendour
apennina blanda blue blanda Pink Star Gardening Which?
An excellent and very pretty Low growing in shades of blue, Pale pink flowered plants of the reported on a survey of
plant - I just wish it were more that unconformity adding to their same stature. Plant and Bulb suppliers
easily produced as I think it more attractiveness, with flowers which 4” (10cm) in April 2021.
attractive than A. blanda in British shimmer close to the ground, March 4” (10cm)
57-08 £3.80 for 5 They surveyed just over 5000
conditions, but it is not a similarly unaffected by the March winds and of their members and needed a
commercialised plant. In white or shaking off the rain. Easy in any response rate of 30 to include a
shades of blue with many deeply summer shaded spot where the blanda White business in their ratings.
cut petals on flowers held well more angled light (and moisture) of Splendour “Although this small, family-run
above soft mounds of leaves. spring penetrate the canopy. Gleaming white petals surround a bulb supplier didn’t receive
Ideal under big deciduous trees 4” (10cm)
hub of golden stamens, which when enough responses for star ratings
following snowdrops and flowering March 4” (10cm) in some of our survey categories,
57-07 £2.60 for 10, £6.00 for 25 ruffled by the wind, show off their pink-
with the early daffodils with which tinged backs. Opening widely in direct it makes it into the top bracket
or £10.50 for 50
the colours combine very naturally. sunshine, their flowering is a sure sign due to its customer satisfaction
Plant the small stick-like rhizomes in and recommendation score. Nine
that spring has arrived. Compared to
small groups 6” (15cm) apart where in 10 members who bought from
the blue forms slightly warmer soils Avon Bulbs would recommend it
they will thereafter seed about. I Plants we list which and more direct light suit them better,
think our strimming - once a year in to others. Packaging, plant quality
have received the RHS in too much shade they get rather
Commendation ‘Award and value for money scored five,
the summer has greatly increased leggy. They grow from larger hard,
of Garden Merit’ are now four and four stars respectively
their spread. Home grown and dug- tagged with the trophy irregular corms, which you will receive (out of five). The website is
to-order from under the trees here, symbol. Space does whole - many providers sell these cut arranged by planting season with
the damp packed rhizomes are not allow us to add the hardiness into smaller pieces. plants listed alphabetically and
inevitably rather variable in size. rating – please be aware the award accompanied by large pictures.
applies to the ease of cultivation, 4” (10cm)
clumps 6” (15cm) March 5” (12cm) Avon Bulbs has also won 30
excellence and constitution, but not
March/April 8” (20cm) necessarily hardiness. 57-12 £5.50 for 10, £12.50 for 25 Chelsea Gold Medals.”
57-11 £7.50 for 3 or £23.00 for 50
16 Avon Bulbs Mail Order Catalogue Autumn 2021Anemone nemorosa Anemone bracteata
Anemone Lychette Anemone virescens Anemone ranunculoides
nemorosa nemorosa Lychette nemorosa ranunculoides
The wild wood anemone. The Much larger flowered than the Wyatt’s Pink A European native with bright
simplest looking low, white flowers normal wood anemone but still Opening pale pink these have yellow petalled flowers, the tubers
which derive from stick-like in white with pronounced yellow smaller more cupped flowers with underground are thicker and less
rhizomes. For woodland situations, stamens. Slightly later flowering. A darker pink backings. stick-like than those of Anemone
in shade with leafmold-rich soils. As lovely form. 3” (8cm) nemorosa. Easy in light spring shade
with many ‘wild’ plants they often 3” (8cm) April 4” (10cm) conditions amongst the other March
take a while to settle in and take off. April 4” (10cm) 57-39 £5.50 for 3 and April flowering woodlanders.
3” (8cm) 57-23 £5.50 for 3 3” (8cm)
April 4” (10cm) April 4” (10cm)
57-20 £4.40 for 5 nemorosa 57-31 £5.50 for 5
nemorosa virescens
For us the most productive of all ranunculoides
bracteata the Anemone nemorosa forms. Fuchsis Traum
Double petalled in white with green These do not have flowers in the With longer internodes this form
tinges to the outermost ones. Like conventional sense, but frothy is taller and less compact than A.
them all quite slow to get going but green heads full of bracts that last ranunculoides with small pretty
for a brief time in April a joy. much longer than flowers might. double yellow flowers.
3” (8cm) 3” (8cm) 3” (8cm)
April 4” (10cm) April 4” (10cm) April 4” (10cm)
57-37 £5.50 for 5 57-17 £5.50 for 5 57-40 £5.50 for 3
= suggested plant spacing
in garden situations
Flowering time Flowering height
Item Code Price
Tel: 01460 242 177 • Email: info@avonbulbs.co.uk • Website: www.avonbulbs.co.uk 17Anthericum x Paradisea Anthericum liliago major Anthericum ramosum Asphodelus albus
ANTHERICUM Anthericum x
Paradisea
liliago major We have grown both Anthericum
Pretty white flowered perennials liliago major and Paradisea
from southern Europe. They grow lusitanica for a long while and
from an agapanthus-like crown of they do not really overlap in
thick fleshy roots when dormant in their flowering but have some
the autumn, providing for splendid, similarities. We believe them to
informal looking plants that thrive have spontaneously spawned an
in moisture retentive soil in good inter-generic hybrid as these flower
light. When settled, each plant after one and before the other, are
will carry ten or sometimes twenty much bigger and later than the
flower stems piercing upward each Anthericum but earlier and smaller
carrying a dozen or more flowers than the Paradisea. If you like the
looking like little flared trumpets group - and who wouldn’t, they
with yellow stamens, opening are easy, attractive and increasing
sequentially up the stems. Border - maybe you would like to give a
plants for good fertile soils in the division of this (presumed) hybrid a
sun. Plant the crowns 4” deep and go, and if you are an expert let us
24”(60cm) apart. have your views?
24” (60cm)  24” (60cm)
May 24” (60cm) May/June 24-36” (60-90cm)
58-05 £8.00 each 58-06 £8.00 each
Aristolochia rotunda Bomaria salsilla
Anthericum ARISTOLOCHIA ASPHODELUS B OMAREA
ramosum
The ‘Branched St Bernard’s Lily’, rotunda albus salsilla 
produces many wiry stems with Originally found in southern Europe Quite remarkable plants that provide Mexican and South American
spangled starry white flowers, never and parts of the plant were used to structure and an architectural climbers that one might imagine
many open at once but always with induce childbirth evidently and the framework surprisingly quickly from require protection from severe cold,
a few open over several months. An very rare and beautiful Southern autumn planted ‘roots’. The strong but recent winters here have left
easy to grow perennial for a sunny Festoon butterfly (again from stems carry white starry flowers in a them untouched, buried as they are
spot. Pot grown plants. southern Europe) lays its larvae on spire, each looking as though they deep in the ground. Long lasting
14” (35cm) the plant making the adult butterfly have been henna lined. Best in open pink flowers crowd on the ends
May/June 24” (60cm) poisonous to birds. Unlikely to satisfy conditions and more gravelly well of thick, tangled stems with quite
158-07 £7.50 or £20.00 for 3 either of those needs in Britain, this drained soils. These will be big roots succulent foliage, sometimes the
is a bit of a trial as we are unsure as and are priced as such on account heads look down, or up, but never
to how many tubers we shall harvest of the likely difficulty in digging and the same way! They seem happy
after years of trying ! Rather few packing them. with either full sun or part shade but
possibly! A slightly odd little curiosity  12” (30cm) you will need to provide support for
which seems perfectly hardy, Spring/Summer 3-5’ (90-150cm) them to climb through.
creeping with rounded, clasping 34-05 £15.00 Summer flowering 30” (70cm)
leaves and small aroid-like flowers. 10-04 £6.00
June 9” (20cm)
196-01 £7.50
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