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Cardiocrinum Seedpods
Several years ago, on a visit to Yorkshire (and our favourite garden centre!) we returned home with a couple of these lovely plants.
Now, because they grow in the first year without flowering, in the second, they flower, set seed and die off!
However, the important thing is the setting of seed! So all we have to do is tend the seedpods, hence the seeds, and then we have more! So, being biennial, so long as we set some seed one year, then another set the following year, we have these magnificent beings every year in flower! Well, that's the theory anyway!
The giant Himalayan lily (Cardiocrinum giganteum) is a little-known member of the lily family. This rhizomatous perennial belongs to a small genus containing two other species.
Flowering June to August, its thick flower stems erupt from a huge rosette reaching an impressive 1.5 to 4m (5–13ft)!! in height, each bearing racemes of 20 to 40 large white, powerfully fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers 15-20cm (6-8in) long, with maroon stripes inside.
I always think that they look rather like the demon plant saying "Feed Me, Seymour!"
Cardiocrinum Seedpods
Several years ago, on a visit to Yorkshire (and our favourite garden centre!) we returned home with a couple of these lovely plants.
Now, because they grow in the first year without flowering, in the second, they flower, set seed and die off!
However, the important thing is the setting of seed! So all we have to do is tend the seedpods, hence the seeds, and then we have more! So, being biennial, so long as we set some seed one year, then another set the following year, we have these magnificent beings every year in flower! Well, that's the theory anyway!
The giant Himalayan lily (Cardiocrinum giganteum) is a little-known member of the lily family. This rhizomatous perennial belongs to a small genus containing two other species.
Flowering June to August, its thick flower stems erupt from a huge rosette reaching an impressive 1.5 to 4m (5–13ft)!! in height, each bearing racemes of 20 to 40 large white, powerfully fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers 15-20cm (6-8in) long, with maroon stripes inside.
I always think that they look rather like the demon plant saying "Feed Me, Seymour!"