BURIED TREASURE Summer 2015 Rannveig Wallis, Llwyn Ifan, Porthyrhyd, Carmarthen, UK. SA32 8BP Email: [email protected] As last year this list is later than has been my previous practice. In future, this will be the norm. Please note that my autumn seed list is included below. This means that seed is fresher and you can sow it earlier. Much of the stock is only available in small numbers and is supplied on a first come, first served, basis. Terms of Business: Please pay by “Not to Exceed” cheque made out to "R Wallis" or include a list of substitutes. Failing this I will credit your account for the following season for any out of stock items. Overseas customers can pay by Paypal, in which case please include your email with the order and I will send you an invoice when I dispatch your order; by Sterling International Money Order or: in cash (Sterling, Euro or US dollar are accepted, in this case I advise using registered mail). Please note that I can only accept orders placed before the end of August. Parcels will be dispatched in the last week in August or beginning of September. If you are going to be away please let me know so that I can coordinate dispatch. I will not cash your cheque until your order is dispatched. Acis autumnale var pulchellus A Moroccan version of this excellent early autumn flowerer. It is quite distinct in the fact that the pedicels and bracts are green rather than maroon as in the type variety. Good in a raised bed in full sun. 3 for £2.50 Acis niceaense From the Alpes Maritime. White bells on 10cm stems are produced in May. £2.50 Acis trichophyllum This lovely form with a slight pink shaded white flower won the Farrer Medal in London in 2014. It is easy to grow and if kept warm and undisturbed, it will flower nicely. 5 assorted sized bulbs: £3.50 Albuca humilis 15cm spikes of marzipanscented white flowers with a central green stripe in summer. £2.00 Albuca sp yellow This “appeared” in our collection – a nice surprise. Yellow & duskygreen flowers on 40cm stems £2.00 Allium acuminatum ex NNS0012. Dog Mtn, Columbia Gorge. Umbels of 10–40 brilliant roseviolet flowers on 10 cm stems on this tiny west coast onion from a moist maritime climate. The tepals are distinctively sharply pointed and outcurved. 3 for £4.00 Allium bollandieri From the Siskiyou mountains. Striking heads of violet purple stars on 15 cm stems. £2.50 Allium karataviense Seed raised stock of a form with white flowers and lime green ovaries. Easy in the garden: £2.50 Arisarum vulgare Green striped spathes produced in autumn. 3 for £3.50 Bellavalia forniculata An amazing turquoise blue which colours the meadows at snowmelt time in NE Anatolia. £3.50 Biarum tenuifolium Brown spathes and spadix in June after the leaves are dormant. £2.00 Brimeura amethystina var alba Easy and very beautiful in the garden and flowers in late May – June. 3 for £2.00 Brimeura fastigiata “white flowered form” A sweet little Corsican bulb for a pot and the late shows. Wide open flowers on short stems in June. £2.00 Brodiaea elegans Umbels of large pale violet, funnelshaped flowers on short stems. £2.00 Caloscordum nerineifolium A useful summer flowering bulb which looks just like a small Nerine. Easy to grow. £3.00 Chionodoxa cretica Rarely offered snow melt plant with racemes of pale blue flowers which open flat in mid March. £2.50 Chionodoxa forbesii The true plant which grows near Fethiye in SW Turkey. White centred dark blue flowers. £2.00 Chionodoxa luciliae The nomenclature of the Turkish species is a bit of a minefield but this is the one with huge deep blue, white throated flowers. We believe this to be the true plant which came from Liz Strangman and it agrees with what we found on Boz Dag, the type locality, in 2014. £2.00 Chionodoxa luciliae var alba The wonderful white form of the above which grows so well in Jenny Archibald’s garden. £2.00 Chionodoxa nana A small Cretan species believed to be a high altitude form of C cretica with lots of pale blue flowers. £2.50 Colchicum baytopiorum from S Turkey. A neat dwarf Colchicum, large, open pink nontesselated, flowers appear with the neat brightgreen leaves in the autumn. A great one for the autumn shows. This had done very well this year so… Special offer 3 for £7.00 Colchicum cupanii subsp cupanii ex Cretan stock of this white to pale pink species which flowers with the leaves in autumn. £3.50 Corydalis section Corydalis This section includes all the Corydalis solida types with small tubers which multiply vegetatively. Most grow best in cool woodland conditions with a cool, nottoodry, summer. Corydalis angustifolia ‘Gemini’ We collect some seed from a twinspurred form of this and it breeds true with little Dicentrashaped flowers in a sort of offwhite. Unique! £5.00 Corydalis caucasica subsp caucasica The joy of the Caucasus with its rose purple flowers. It grows in shade, flowering as the snow melts. £3.00 Corydalis glaucescens Seedlings of plants we obtained many years ago as C kashgarica. Soft pink flowers. £3.00 Corydalis malkensis One of the best outdoor species which seeds around freely yet it is only above the ground briefly, showing off its largelipped creamy white flowers, so it is never a nuisance. £2.50 Corydalis tauricola Elegant sprays of long pink flowers on 15 cm stems. £3.00 Corydalis section Leontocoides The glory of the snow melt and excellent plants for a pot in the alpine house. It is not easy to obtain stock of this group since the tubers rarely divide and are self sterile so you need at least two clones to get seed. I offer 3 4 year old seedlings which are not huge but neither is the price. Corydalis seisumsiana Beautiful white, pinklipped, flowers on a delightful dwarf plant from the snow melts of the Elburz. £8.00 Corydalis aff seisumsiana Iran, Mazandaran, S of Kalardasht. Keys out to this but looks rather different from the above in its more finely divided leaves and more airy habit. £8.00 Corydalis verticillaris One of the gems of a very beautiful section with spikes of anything from creamy white to pale pink, long spurred flowers which in some can reflex in a loop right over the back of the flower like a posing ballerina. £8.00 Crocus cancellatus subsp mazziaricus The western form of this white or pale mauve species. £2.50 Crocus fleischeri Although not the largest species, the narrow white tepals show off a greatly branched bright red stigma. £2.00 Crocus kotschyanus An easy and lovely species for the autumn. 5 of varying sizes to start you with a reasonable potful. £2.00 Crocus niveus Large pure white or pale lilac flowers with a long tube and a yellow throat are produced in late autumn. £2.50 Crocus nudiflorus This has established well on our rock garden and produces its deep mauve flowers from the rhizomatous corms in new places every early autumn. It is stunning in the Wisley alpine meadow. £2.00 Dicentra cucullaria A stunning 15cm tall north American woodlander with deeply cut grey foliage and spikes of creamycoloured Dutchman’s breechesshaped flowers in April. £2.50 Erythronium ‘Pagoda’ Pale lemon flowers held above the foliage. Another good one for the garden. £3.00 Eucomis amaryllidifolia In our opinion, one of Jim Archibald’s best introductions from S Africa. Dwarf “pineapple top” over neat broad prostrate foliage. Green flowers on a short stem in midsummer. Dry in winter, water in summer. £3.00 Freesia occidentalis White flowers in early spring. Cold greenhouse hardy! 3 for £2.50 Fritillaria crassifolia ssp crassifolia In the wild, a committed scree dweller but easy in cultivation. In the wild these plants are only 6 cm tall with flowers which sit on the stones. £4.00 Fritillaria crassifolia ssp kurdica Flowers may be purple, green, yellow or more commonly some combination of these. £4.00 Fritillaria minuta Orangy flowers and bright green leaves from this snow melt bulb of SE Turkey. A mixture of bulb sizes to the value of: £3.00 Fritillaria olivieri A robust species in the crassifolia group from moist fields in the Zagros mountains of Iran. A packet of assorted sizes to the value of: £3.00 Fritillaria reuteri A rarely offered plant of the Baktiari country in the Zagros where huge colonies of it can be found in running snow melt water. Superb mahogany bells with yellow tips. £5.00 Gagea mauritanica An underrated genus and this little gem produces clouds of little pale yellow flowers on 5cm stems. The tangle of roots you will receive look dead on arrival but panic not. They should come up in the spring. Morocco. £2.00 Galanthus species ex Georgia. We grew all these originally from wild seed which originated in Georgia and have used the names that the Georgians, who fall into the “splitters” camp, use: G alpinus large flowers on short stems and neat grey convoluted foliage. Second generation seedlings £5.00 G caucasicus Borjomi Bakuriani, Georgia, 900 m. One could be persuaded that this has slightly broader foliage than G alpinus. £5.00 G kemulariae From beech woods near the famous Saguramo Monastery. The bright green leaves are characteristic. £5.00 G lagodechianus Another bright green leaved one from mixed woodland near the Gremi monastery, 450 500 m £5.00 Galanthus elwesii Martyn Rix very kindly gave us stock of this fabulous autumnflowering one from south of Gulnar.