AUTUMN 2014 Broadleigh Gardens MAIL ORDER • 01823 286231 Broadleigh Gardens Bishops Hull Taunton TA4 1AE www.broadleighbulbs.co.uk ▲ Tulipa Peppermint Stick Iris reticulata Gordon ▼ Anemone blanda blue ▲ ▼ Tulip Fusilier with Muscari White Magic ▼ Narcissus Spring Dawn with reticulata Iris ▼ Corydalis solida with anemones Top quality bulbs from the specialists Broadleigh Gardens Barr House, Bishops Hull, Taunton, Somerset TA4 1AE Telephone: Taunton 01823 286231 Fax: 01823 323646 www.broadleighbulbs.co.uk Small is beautiful or more than 40 years we have some wonderful Dutch Iris (Silvery specialised in dwarf bulbs. While Blue and White van Vliet). Both Fmost of our daffodils are vigorous are equally good for garden display. enough to take the rough and tumble Other favourites to cut are tulips– their of the open garden some of the tiniest wayward contortions never fail to gems are best given a little more enchant. Although many of the tulips protection, especially as many originate in the borders are replaced annually in the dry south of Spain. These we some have proved themselves to be grow in pots in a tunnel and this year the very long lived, especially the fosteriana spectacular display was only surpassed cultivars. Purissima (page 34) needs by the overwhelming scent – most are no introduction, repeating well, but jonquils. Although they look delicate every spring a lovely salmon pink they are in fact easy and rewarding pot cultivar delights us. For years we called plants for cold glass – just requiring a it the super market tulip as we could dry summer dormancy to perform their never remember its name - Albert annual miracle. Some will grow outside given optimum Heijn ( see page 34). conditions. We have included a lot more this year: Idol, cordubensis, wilkomii etc. Our front cover features a bulb we have long advocated. There can be few bulbs that are as Other exciting introductions are the rare white exuberant as the Ipheion ( page 16) but these Sternbergia candida (page 5) and the extraordinary S Americans are surprisingly little known. They are perfect new Muscari Bling Bling with its glistening jewel for a dry sunny border – even growing in gravel, or they like flowers of intense blue (page 18). I love cutting can be massed in pots. They make a good edging mixed flowers for the house and have decided to include with grape hyacinths. They are honey scented and can be some of my favourites- 2 excellent Anemone de caen cut as the perfect foil for small daffs. - bicolor (white) & Bordeaux (vintage claret) and LADY SKELMERSDALE = those plants given the Award of Garden Merit by the RHS. RHS Perfect for Pollinators Please see Terms of Business on Page 41 for details of postal charges. All bulbs in this catalogue are commercially propagated. These bulbs are for garden decoration only and should not be eaten. Front cover picture: Ipheion ‘Rolf Fiedler’ Our Spring List of plants in growth, especially Snowdrops, Cyclamen, Hellebores etc., is available from January. The garden is open to view every weekday (charity donation) but please note that we are a working mail order nursery and not a garden centre. If you wish to collect an order please give us advance notice (see Terms of Business). ★ New or re-introduction. 1 Order online at www.broadleighbulbs.co.uk N Suitable for naturalising. FOR DESPATCH LATE AUGUST BULBS FOR DESPATCH LATE AUGUST INCLUDING BULBS TO FLOWER THIS AUTUMN Because of their habit of growth – usually coming into leaf or flower before late October – these bulbs MUST be despatched early. In order that they reach you in time for planting, please use the order form No. 1. Plant the bulbs immediately they are received. Bulbs from this section cannot be sent with items from pages 7-35. BULBS FOR INDOORS AUTUMN PREPARED FLOWERING BULBS HYACINTHS COLCHICUM To flower in time for Christmas, these (Meadow Saffron) bulbs must be planted by the end of See our website for many more September. However, flowering dates varieties cannot be guaranteed as they depend upon cultural conditions. They must be The 6” tall showy naked flowers which appear given an adequate period of cold for root in late September and October are long lived formation. and easy to grow in any rich, well-drained soil. Their luxuriant foliage appears in the spring. Excellent among shrubs. ANN MARY. Delicate soft pink with well formed AUTUMNALE. Narcissus paperwhite ‘Ziva’ trusses held well above the leaves. A rare British native with small purple 10” Dec-Jan 3 = £3.30; 10 = £10.00 flowers. 6” Sept NARCISSUS 3 = £8.00 DELFT BLUE. PAPERWHITE ‘ZIVA’ Uniform deep blue flowers open almost Masses of pure white, heavily scented AUTUMNALE ALBUM. at the same time. 10” Dec-Jan flowers. Plant bulbs on surface of soil and White form of autumnale with masses of 3 = £3.30; 10 = £10.00 keep pot on a cool windowsill. Flowering small white flowers.6” Sept date depends upon planting time. Just 3 = £8.00 L’INNOCENCE. keep bulbs in the light until you are ready A fine pure white hybrid of compact to plant - Nov for Xmas. stature. 10” Dec-Jan 12” Nov-Jan 3 = £3.30; 10 = £10.00 5 = £5.00; 15 = £13.75 Hyacinth l’Innocence Colchicum bornmuelleri Colchicum Autumnale Album ★ New or re-introduction. 2 Order online at www.broadleighbulbs.co.uk N Suitable for naturalising. FOR DESPATCH LATE AUGUST Colchicum autumnale Colchicum Rosy Dawn Colchicum byzantinum & butterfly N BORNMUELLERI. N ‘THE GIANT’. Very large clear violet flowers with white Very large beautiful deep lilac-mauve AUTUMN FLOWERING: centres. Increases rapidly. 8” Early Sept flowers with white base. Increases well. Collection No. 1 8” Sept-Oct 3 = £8.00 3 = £7.00 BYZANTINUM. NANCY LINDSAY Masses of rosy-lilac flowers produced (pannonicum). Bright violet-mauve over a period. Stands up well to flowers with a central white line on dark autumn. 6” Sept stems. Delightful and easy. One of the 3 = £7.00 earliest to flower. Grows and flowers incredibly well here. 6” Sept ROSY DAWN. 3 = £8.00 A magnificent sturdy hybrid with large, ‘WATERLILY’. SPECIOSUM ALBUM. Large double variety which really does rich purple-pink chequered flowers. A magnificent pure white form. look like its name. Quite distinct and 8” Sept-Oct Now very rare. 7” Oct rosy-lilac in colour. 6” Sept-Oct 3 = £8.00 £4.00 each; 3 = £11.00 £4.00 each; 3 = £11.00 Colchicum speciosum album Colchicum Waterlily Colchicum Nancy Lindsay ★ New or re-introduction. 3 Order online at www.broadleighbulbs.co.uk N Suitable for naturalising. FOR DESPATCH LATE AUGUST Crocus laevigatus Fontenayi Crocus speciosus Cyclamen hederifolium CROCUS SATIVUS (Saffron Crocus). Huge CYCLAMEN (Autumn Flowering) rosy-lilac flowers with darker veins. Owing to popular demand we are offering Saffron dye is obtained from the large these two Cyclamen as freshly lifted dormant orange-red stigmas. Plant deeply in rich These autumn-flowering Crocus are easily tubers during August. Our main range of soil in full sun. Needs a dry summer. grown in any garden soil, including chalk, Cyclamen will continue to be listed in-our 4” Oct 10 = £4.40; 25 = £9.90 provided it is dry in summer. spring (January) catalogue. ★ LAEVIGATUS FONTENAYI. N SPECIOSUS. COUM. The tiniest corm with the longest name ! A very popular autumn-flowering crocus This excellent hardy winter-flowering Incredibly long lived – 40 years here on which increases rapidly and is ideal for cyclamen will slowly spread to give a our rock garden Good in troughs. Soft naturalising. Gives a really good show of light carpet of colour under trees or shrubs. lilac with purple feathering. Very hardy. blue flowers with dark veins. 4” Dec-Mar 3” December 5” Sept-Oct 15 = £3.00; Mixed Colours £4.00 each; 3 = £11.00 3 = £4.00; 10 = £12.50 50 = £9.20; 100 = £18.00 White £4.80 each Silver Leaf £5.20 each SPECIOSUS ALBUS. PULCHELLUS. Deep Pink £5.00 each A fine white form and just as easy to Large pale lilac flowers with a few violet grow. 5” Oct HEDERIFOLIUM (neapolitanum). lines and cream anthers. 5” Sept-Oct The mainstay for autumn flowering and 10 = £5.00; 25 = £11.60 10 = £5.00; 25 = £11.60 a most rewarding plant. Finely marked ‘ZEPHYR’. My favourite. Large, variegated leaves with a mass of pink very pale lilac flowers. Striking and long flowers. Should be planted 1’ apart in lasting. Easy in the garden. Sterile and a dry situation with dappled or even full longlived - 30 years here. 5” Sept-Oct shade. 4” Aug-Oct 5 = £4.00; 15 = £11.05 £3.50 each; 3 = £9.70 Crocus pulchellus Crocus sativus Cyclamen coum Crocus speciosus Albus Crocus Zephyr ★ New or re-introduction. 4 Order online at www.broadleighbulbs.co.uk N Suitable for naturalising. FOR DESPATCH LATE AUGUST Lilium candidum Scilla peruviana Sternbergia lutea LILIUM CANDIDUM SCILLA See page 18 - can be sent with Autumn STERNBERGIA orders. These spring flowering Scilla are virtually Grow like Nerines by a sunny wall. evergreen and best moved early. CANDIDUM (Madonna Lily). ★ CANDIDA LILIO HYACINTHUS Probably the best known of all lilies with its The fabled winter flowering white Beautiful, china blue candles with broad glistening white trumpets. The bulbs should sternbergia, a gem for the Alpine house. leaves. The bulbs look just like a lily. be planted just below the surface in a well- Pure white flowers come with the It replaces bluebells in the woods of drained limey soil in full sun. leaves. Jan-Feb 6” £6.00 each N Spain where it grows with fritillaries 4’-5 June-July £6.00 each and wild daffodils.