Description
A spectacular plant, with spikes of purple-edged, pale green star-shaped flowers on purple-spotted stems in July and August, topped with a pineapple-like tuft above a rosette of wide, fleshy leaves. This distinctive, summer-flowering bulb looks stunning planted in clumps in a large, well-drained container or in a sunny, exotic-style garden. Since it’s not fully hardy in frost-prone areas, it’s best over-wintered indoors in a cool greenhouse, though we are trying it out in a well drained bed here at Lewis Cottage as a trial!
Position: In a pot, in shade
Soil: Well drained
Rate of growth: Slow
Flowering period: Mid Summer
Hardiness: Not hardy
Pot size: 1L
Eventual height and spread: 30 x 20cm
