Erythronium collection
dog's tooth violet bulb collection
- Position: Partial shade
- Soil: Moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: Fast
- Flowering period: March to April
- Hardiness: Fully hardy
Experience the charm of our Erythronium (Dog's tooth violet) collection, showcasing early spring-flowering varieties with captivating marbled foliage. These delightful plants offer a range of flower colours, including pink-purple, white, and sulphur yellow, adding a vibrant touch to your garden. With their unique foliage patterns and exquisite blooms, these Erythroniums are sure to enchant in woodland or semi-shaded borders where they will happily naturalise.
In each collection you will receive the following:
- 5 × Erythronium californicum 'White Beauty': These look wonderful when allowed to form naturalistic drifts in a woodland setting, and as they are reasonably vigorous in nature, they are also one of the easiest to grow. Their leaves, which form a basal clump, are softly marbled, and it is from amongst these that the slender stems rise up in spring, each bearing up to 3 nodding white flowers. These are made up of strongly recurved and pointed tepals (petals), that surround a prominent cluster of white stamens. A truly elegant plant in every way. Grows to 35cm.
- 5 × Erythronium 'Pagoda': Each stem of this plant will carry up to 10 nodding, sulphur yellow flowers with a brown central ring and deep yellow anthers. The foliage can be equally showy as it has either bronze-mottled or fainter white marbling on the deep green, glossy leaves. In early spring this combination makes a very colourful display in woodlands and meadows. This is a vigorous plant which will form clumps and spread. Grows to 35cm.
- 5 × Erythronium dens-canis: The foliage of this charming dog's tooth violet is a lush green, but is heavily marbled with purple-brown. It makes a great show all on its own, but the best bit is when the slender, upright stems emerge from the clump in spring bearing nodding pink-purple flowers. The petals are sharply recurved so the flowers look like they have been grown in a wind tunnel when fully open, but this just helps to reveal their yellow anthers. Grows to 15cm.
- Humans/Pets: Ornamental bulbs - not to be eaten