A very early spring bulb that's showy, tough, long-lived, and adaptable. Its very early season makes it especially valuable in the garden...Read More---it blooms before I see any daffodils, in March here in Z6a Boston, and seems to be the earliest squill to bloom. It's the showiest bulb of the season, and it should be much more widely grown.
My plants are bigger and more robust than most of the books say, to about 10" tall. The flowers are white with a narrow blue midrib on the outside of the tepals. Unlike with Puschkinia scilloides, the overall effect is still closer to white than to skim-milk-blue. The anthers are a vivid turquoise---blue-green---before they shed their pollen.
This does well under deciduous trees, and it seems to be as shade tolerant as Scilla sibirica.
Plants are long persistent, but are reluctant to spread here.
Bulbs are inexpensive and easily available from the mail-order fall bulb sellers.
Malus, I wonder if perhaps you are thinking of Scilla bifolia with respect to having two leaves? Having two leaves is not actuall...Read Morey a characteristic of Scilla mischtschenkoana.
Coon Rapids, MN (Zone 4a) | January 2008 | positive
This is a hard to find plant. I admit I don't have it myself. The flowers look like Siberian Squill var. Alba but are a bit larger in siz...Read Moree and have only two leaves that are more wider than Siberian Squill. I have seen colonies of this plant on the Univ of Minnesota St. Paul Campus completely neglected in a small woodland patch near the greenhouses.
Scilla miczenkoana (S. tubergeniana) is not the most common squill, but is very desirable and long-lived. The flowers look like a larger...Read More version of Lebanon Squill (Puschkinia scilloides). The plants also have a pleasant fragrance if you get down on your knees!
Scilla mischtschenkoana has a wonderful color. It is the earliest of all Squills in my garden and the bees love it
A very early spring bulb that's showy, tough, long-lived, and adaptable. Its very early season makes it especially valuable in the garden...Read More
Malus, I wonder if perhaps you are thinking of Scilla bifolia with respect to having two leaves? Having two leaves is not actuall...Read More
This is a hard to find plant. I admit I don't have it myself. The flowers look like Siberian Squill var. Alba but are a bit larger in siz...Read More
Scilla miczenkoana (S. tubergeniana) is not the most common squill, but is very desirable and long-lived. The flowers look like a larger...Read More