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!
\nPosition: In a pot, in shade
\nSoil: Well drained
\nRate of growth: Slow
\nFlowering period: Mid Summer
\nHardiness: \u00a0Not hardy
\nPot size: 2L
\nEventual height and spread: 30 x 20cm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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!<\/p>\n
Position: In a pot, in shade
\nSoil: Well drained
\nRate of growth: Slow
\nFlowering period: Mid Summer
\nHardiness: \u00a0Not hardy
\nPot size: 2L
\nEventual height and spread: 1ft x 8″<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[97,85,37,83,49,89,131],"product_tag":[171,193,219,199,216,192,188,184,186,198,187,195,189,197,196,194,268,190],"class_list":["post-1751","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-plants_e-h","product_cat-featured_plants_for_sale","product_cat-plants_for_sale_a-z","product_cat-seasonal_plants_for_sale","product_cat-plants_in_situ","product_cat-summer_plants","product_cat-the-pot-garden","product_tag-architectural","product_tag-buy-plants-online","product_tag-compact","product_tag-devon-plants-for-sale","product_tag-front-of-border","product_tag-garden-club","product_tag-lewis-cottage","product_tag-longlived","product_tag-mid-summer","product_tag-moorlander","product_tag-ngs-devon","product_tag-online-plant-sales","product_tag-perennial","product_tag-plant-nursery","product_tag-private-garden-tours","product_tag-shade-plants","product_tag-summer-bulb","product_tag-the-garden","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}