Scilla Species, Chionodoxa, Lesser Glory-of-the-Snow, Turkish Glory of the Snow

Intense blue with a violet tint. A smaller plant with smaller flowers than C. luciliae or C. forbesii, but the color is much more intense...Read More.

Tough, easy, adaptable. Naturalizes well in lawns and beds, in full sun or woodland conditions. Blooms in earliest spring, at the same time as Scilla sibirica.

As with all small bulbs, this is best planted in large masses (by the hundred) for good impact in the landscape. Its self-sowing would be problematic in rock gardens.

Easily and inexpensively available from mail order dealers of fall bulbs.