| Common Name: Type: Family: Zone: Height: Spread: Bloom Time: Bloom Description: Sun: Water: Maintenance: Suggested Use: Flower: Tolerate: |
Siberian squill Bulb Asparagaceae 2 to 8 0.25 to 0.50 feet 0.25 to 0.50 feet April Blue Full sun to part shade Medium Low Naturalize Showy, Good Cut Deer, Black Walnut |
Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Plant bulbs 2-3″ deep in fall. Tough, extremely cold hardy, low-maintenance plants that will naturalize easily by bulb offshoots and self-seeding. Each mature bulb will produce 3-4 thin scapes (3-6″ high) with 1-3, drooping, bell-like, deep blue flowers with blue anthers per scape. Flowers appear in early spring shortly after Galanthus (snowdrops). Foliage is 3-4 medium green, strap-like, 6″ long leaves per bulb. This cultivar is very similar in appearance to the species, except perhaps slightly larger, longer blooming and deeper blue in color. Crown rot is an occasional but potentially serious problem. Garden Uses In early spring provides intense blue color to the rock garden or border front. Effective when massed in front of or around shrubs or trees, or planted in large groupings with other early spring bulbs. Mass in sweeping drifts in woodland, wild or naturalized areas or along shady banks. Also may be naturalized in the lawn in the same manner as crocus. |
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