Roscoea Tubers

NEW for 2024 – Roscoea ‘Harvington Polly’ and Roscoea ‘Harvington Bethany’  – see below for details.

Tubers are now available to Pre-order. Orders will be despatched from 4th March 2024. Also have a look at our discounted Harvington Roscoea Tuber Collection.

Roscoea are robust herbaceous perennials in the ginger family.  They are suitable for the front of borders, in a rock garden or grown in a container.  With orchid-like flowers in the summer they can be found in colours ranging from white and cream through pinks, brick reds and purples.  Roscoea tubers have tuberous, fleshy roots (similar in appearance to dahlia) that become dormant in late autumn.  New shoots appear from April onwards.   Early varieties such as R. cautleyoides flower in May, most flower in June but the later varieties such as R. ‘Summer Deep Purple’, R. ‘Harvington Imperial’ and R. ‘Wisley Amethyst’ flower in July and R. ‘Red Gurkha’ flowers in August and even into early September.  They are hardy throughout the British Isles.

Our selection of Roscoea  tubers includes five with the prefix ‘Harvington’, including R. ‘Harvington Royale’, R. ‘Harvington Raw Silk’, R. ‘Harvington Evening Star’, R. ‘Harvington Imperial’ and R. ‘Harvington Summer Deep Purple’.

These are a set of distinctive plants bred by Hugh Nunn in the village of Harvington in the Vale of Evesham and selected for their beauty, vigour and garden worthiness.  Several have been awarded the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit (AGM) in recognition of these characteristics.

We despatch Roscoea tubers during March and April while dormant. They are sold as large flowering-sized tubers ready for planting out.