Snakesheads

Love that,like the markings

I planted some bulbs of these a couple of years ago but they are just starting to send up shoots now. It was a mixed pack and I only got one light coloured one last year. Tuesday I bought some pots of them as they are going over at the garden centre and each has one lighter one in the pot. The others are all darker. I wonder if the lighter ones like different soil conditions? I do like yours they are lovely.

I think the whitish ones are less common,Sheila.I bought a bag of dry bulbs from Woolworths and hoped for the best.These seeded from the origional patch.They seed like mad here.

I've only recently been able to grow them at all. I read somewhere that they prefer a neutral to alkaline soil rather than an acid one so I planted a mixed bag in the front island bed where I grew my potatoes a couple of years ago. It has quite a lot of dead lime and sand from the old mortar in it and the herbaceous perennials seem to enjoy it. I have quite a few up and flowering in that bed. I'm hoping these will seed. The ones I grew last year on the west side of the pergola are only now sending up spears of foliage. They will probably not flower for some time.