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Narcissus bulbocodium var.citrinus (3 bulbs)

Narcissus bulbicodium citrinus

Narcissus bulbocodium var.citrinus is a dwarf Narcissus species. A bulbous perennial, it produces lovely funnel shaped pale lemon flowers in early spring will grow up to 15 cm in height, surrounded by its slender, bright green foliage. When established, bulbs will become clump forming the longer they are in the ground. They grow best in moist, but well drained soil in the growing season, which can then be allowed to dry out in the summer months.  If they are happy, they will self-seed and are perfect for naturalising in thin grassland or at the edge of borders, and grow well in both dappled shade or full sun. 

Narcissus bulbocodium var.citrinus are sold to you in pots rather than as loose bulbs, because the bulbs of this daffodil must not dry out. All plants offered are propagated and grown by us here on our specialist nursery based in South Lincolnshire. The bulbs are 3 years old and most will flower in the first spring season after planting and will flower year after year thereafter. We supply at least three flowering sized bulbs per pot. They are available to order from September to March. 

Alice Vincent reviewed our ‘exquisitely formed collection’ in The Telegraph (16 October 2021):- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/how-to-grow/daffodils-new-tulips/

To find out more about planting your bulbs, the advice is the same as for our narcissus cyclamineus bulbs, so please see our narcissus cyclamineus Planting Advice page. 

 

The RHS provide further information about this species as follows: – 

https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/74848/i-Narcissus-bulbocodium-i-subsp-i-bulbocodium-i-var-i-citrinus-i-(13)/Details 

Helleborus x hybridus ‘Harvington Double Apricot’ (9cm Pot)

Helleborus x hybridus 'Harvington Double Apricot'

Helleborus x hybridus ‘Harvington Double Apricot’ is just one variety of Harvington Hellebores® grown by Twelve Nunns. Harvington Hellebores® are excellent, easy to grow garden plants and flower at that time of year when there may be little or no other floral colour. They are winter flowering, frost hardy perennials, that reliably come back year after year, flowering from December through to the end of March. Their dark green, glossy, evergreen foliage also provides year-round interest. 

Hellebores look particularly attractive against planting companions such as snowdrops, aconites and early daffodils. They create a perfect ground cover for areas of dappled shade, such as borders under deciduous trees and shrubs, but will also thrive in patio pots.  

Our Harvington Hellebores® in pots are established plants ready for planting out in the garden or into a larger pot.  To find out more about planting your Helleborus x hybridus ‘Harvington Double Apricot’ please see our Hellebores Planting Advice page. 

As a specialist nursery, now based in South Lincolnshire, we have developing Harvington Hellebores® for over 30 years.  All plants offered are propagated and grown by us here on our nursery.  We are passionate about the quality of our plants and are constantly striving to achieve clarity of flower colour, attractive foliage and garden worthiness within our Harvington Hellebores® range. Our dedication has attracted interest from the national press, who have written more about our story, as follows: 

 https://www.twelvenunns.co.uk/nursery/wp-content/uploads/JAN-2015-Harvington-Hellebores-Country-Life-Article.pdf  

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardenprojects/8390232/Welcome-to-the-bright-world-of-Hugh-Nunn.html 

 

Helleborus x hybridus ‘Harvington Single Apricot’ (9cm Pot)

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Helleborus x hybridus ‘Harvington Single Apricot’ is just one variety of Harvington Hellebores® grown by Twelve Nunns. Harvington Hellebores® are excellent, easy to grow garden plants and flower at that time of year when there may be little or no other floral colour. They are winter flowering, frost hardy perennials, that reliably come back year after year, flowering from December through to the end of March. Their dark green, glossy, evergreen foliage also provides year-round interest. 

Hellebores look particularly attractive against planting companions such as snowdrops, aconites and early daffodils. They create a perfect ground cover for areas of dappled shade, such as borders under deciduous trees and shrubs, but will also thrive in patio pots.  

Our Harvington Hellebores® in pots are established plants ready for planting out in the garden or into a larger pot.  To find out more about planting your Helleborus x hybridus ‘Harvington Single Apricot’ please see our Hellebores Planting Advice page. 

As a specialist nursery, now based in South Lincolnshire, we have developing Harvington Hellebores® for over 30 years.  All plants offered are propagated and grown by us here on our nursery.  We are passionate about the quality of our plants and are constantly striving to achieve clarity of flower colour, attractive foliage and garden worthiness within our Harvington Hellebores® range. Our dedication has attracted interest from the national press, who have written more about our story, as follows: 

 https://www.twelvenunns.co.uk/nursery/wp-content/uploads/JAN-2015-Harvington-Hellebores-Country-Life-Article.pdf  

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardenprojects/8390232/Welcome-to-the-bright-world-of-Hugh-Nunn.html 

Trillium grandiflorum f. roseum (9cm pot)

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Trillium grandiflorum f. roseum is a beautiful and much sought-after pink selection of Trillium grandiflorum. The parent plants were collected in Virginia, USA many years ago, and all our current stock are grown from selected hand pollinated plants. These are clump-forming that flower late spring- early summer. 

We offer our full range of Trilliums for despatch in the dormant season which is from the end of July until November. They are sent as freshly lifted, healthy Trillium rhizomes with live roots in moist packing material.  Our rhizomes are at least 4 years old.  Given the right situation and soil they should flower after 1 year of planting.  

Trilliums enjoy light shade with well-drained soil. The varieties we offer make good garden plants in the UK. To find out more about planting your Trillium grandiflorum f. roseum rhizomes, please see our Trillium Planting Advice sheet.  

From December through to Spring, we offer a limited range of our Trilliums as pot plants.  

Our Trilliums are propagated and grown by Twelve Nunns Nursery, a specialist nursery based in South Lincolnshire. The parent plants have been either split to produce more plants or hand-pollinated to produce seeds and grown on.  None of the plants we supply are from wild stock. Our Trilliums have been featured in a couple of publications as follows: –  

Gardens Illustrated   

https://www.twelvenunns.co.uk/nursery/wp-content/uploads/ARTICLE_GI_232_PPTrilliums6.pdf  

The English Garden  

https://www.twelvenunns.co.uk/nursery/wp-content/uploads/TheEnglishGarden_PublishedArticle_April2015.pdf 

 

Erythronium dens-canis ‘Old Aberdeen’ (5 bulbs for £9.99) X

Erythronium 'Old Aberdeen' Twelve Nunns

Erythronium dens-canis ‘Old Aberdeen’ is a bulbous perennial which grows up to 15-20cm in height.  Early flowering with beautiful mottled leaves, this dogs tooth voilet has stunning deep purple/pink flowers with inky blue anthers and golden brown markings at the base of the petals, which are charmingly reflexed.  Their leaves die back in June,  with the bulbs becoming dormant over the summer. Leaves will appear again in early March, and the flowers shortly afterwards.

Erythronium dens-canis ‘Old Aberdeen’ flower from early March.Their leaves die back in June and the bulbs become dormant over the summer. The best time to buy and plant Erythronium bulbs is in July/August/September, because they will root down in the autumn while the soil is still warm.  The attractive glossy leaves start to emerge towards the end of February. 

Please note:  We send these to you as dormant, freshly lifted, flowering size bulbs from July through to September  ready for potting up or planting directly into the garden. 

The species and cultivars of  Erythronium that we offer are all selected because they are good garden plants.  They grow well in dappled shade and the bulbs should be kept damp and not dried out. 

Our collection has taken many years to develop. It takes at least 5 years to grow a flowering sized bulb from seed and propagation by division is slow. 

For Erythronium dens-canis ‘Old Aberdeen’ planting advice see our Erythronium Planting Advice page

Our Erythronium range has been reviewed in The Telegraph and provides further information and advise which is well worth reading:-

‘Why now is the best time to plant Erythroniums, the most exquisite flowers of spring’

Erythronium dens-canis ‘Snowflake’ (3 bulbs for £9.50)

Erythronium dens-canis 'Snowflake' Twelve Nunns

Erythronium dens-canis ‘Snowflake’ is a bulbous perennial which grows up to 15-20cm in height.  Early flowering with beautiful mottled leaves, the flowers have white, recurved petals with distinctive russet brown zig-zag pencil markings at their base, and impressive deep blue anthers.

Erythronium dens-canis ‘Snowflake’ flower from early March.Their leaves die back in June and the bulbs become dormant over the summer. The best time to buy and plant  Erythronium bulbs is in July/August/September, because they will root down in the autumn while the soil is still warm.  The attractive glossy leaves start to emerge towards the end of February. 

Please note:  We send these to you as dormant, freshly lifted, flowering size bulbs from July through to September  ready for potting up or planting directly into the garden. 

The species and cultivars of  Erythronium that we offer are all selected because they are good garden plants.  They grow well in dappled shade and the bulbs should be kept damp and not dried out. 

Our collection has taken many years to develop. It takes at least 5 years to grow a flowering sized bulb from seed and propagation by division is slow. 

For Erythronium dens-canis ‘Snowflake’ planting advice see our Erythronium Planting Advice page

Our Erythronium range has been reviewed in The Telegraph and provides further information and advise which is well worth reading:-

‘Why now is the best time to plant Erythroniums, the most exquisite flowers of spring’

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Harvington Hellebores

The Hellebores are coming into flower – what an uplifting sight on an otherwise bleak January day! Our 9cm pot plants are looking really good and I have just received an email from a customer as follows,
‘Thank you for my order… I just had to congratulate you on the packaging, the plants looked so good it seemed a shame to undo them!’ Mrs. B., Grimsby
That was uplifting too!

Narcissus cyclamineus x 4 pots (12 bulbs)

Narcissus cyclamineus

Narcissus cyclamineus is a delightful petite daffodil, with vivid yellow petals that sweep fully back to reveal its long flower tube – it is cyclamen-like in appearance hence its name.  By early spring it will grow up to 12 cm in height, surrounded by its slender, pale green foliage. The species has been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit. 

When established, bulbs will become clump forming the longer they are in the ground. They grow best in moist, but well drained soil which is slightly acidic.  If they are happy, they will self-seed and are perfect for naturalising, especially in thin grassland. They prefer dappled shade so do avoid a planting position in full sun. 

Alice Vincent reviewed our ‘exquisitely formed collection’ in The Telegraph (16 October 2021):- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/how-to-grow/daffodils-new-tulips/

To find out more about planting your bulbs please see our narcissus cyclamineus Planting Advice page. 

Narcissus cyclamineus  are sold to you in pots rather than as loose bulbs, because the bulbs of this daffodil must not dry out. All plants offered are propagated and grown by us here on our specialist nursery based in South Lincolnshire. The bulbs are 3 years old and most will flower in the first spring season after planting and will flower year after year thereafter. We supply at least three flowering sized bulbs per pot. They are available to order from October to March. 

The RHS provide further information about this species as follows: – 

https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/11363/i-Narcissus-cyclamineus-i-(13)/Details 

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Trilliums… like you have never seen them before!

I received a phone call today from a happy customer called Jason who was delighted with the Trillium rhizomes we sent him last week.  He has bought many Trillum rhizomes from various sources in the past – but none as good as ours!

Just to try out the competition, I bought some recently from a well known UK source.  I received little lumps of rhizome with dead roots on, no sign of life and with a Best Before date of February 2014…

To confirm, our rhizomes are FRESHLY lifted, despatched with lots of live roots and a healthy bud.  They are grown by us and are of flowering size (thanks Dad!).

Please call or email if you would like a mail order list or any further info.

Happy Autumn planting!

Penny

 

Trillium sulcatum

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Trillium sulcatum  have dark maroon-red flowers held on an upright pedicel, making the flower clearly visible above its green foliage. It is described by the experts Frederick and Roberta Case as, ‘A robust and splendid plant’.  ‘Sulcatum‘ means “boat-shaped” and refers to the upturned margins of the sepals and petals. It grows up to a height of 40cm. 

We offer our full range of Trilliums for despatch in the dormant season which is from mid July until November. They are sent as freshly lifted, healthy Trillium rhizomes with live roots in moist packing material.  Our rhizomes are at least 4 years old.  Given the right situation and soil they should flower after 1 year of planting.  

Trilliums enjoy light shade with well-drained soil. The varieties we offer make good garden plants in the UK. To find out more about planting your Trillium sulcatum rhizomes, please see our Trillium Planting Advice sheet.  

Our Trilliums are propagated and grown by Twelve Nunns Nursery, a specialist nursery based in South Lincolnshire. The parent plants have been either split to produce more plants or hand-pollinated to produce seeds and grown on.  None of the plants we supply are from wild stock. Our Trilliums have been featured in a couple of publications as follows: –  

Gardens Illustrated   

https://www.twelvenunns.co.uk/nursery/wp-content/uploads/ARTICLE_GI_232_PPTrilliums6.pdf  

The English Garden  

https://www.twelvenunns.co.uk/nursery/wp-content/uploads/TheEnglishGarden_PublishedArticle_April2015.pdf 

Trillium flexipes ‘Harvington Hybrids’ (from flexipes x simile)

Trillium flexipes ‘Harvington Hybrids’ (from flexipes x simile) is one of our own trilliums. It produces  charming white flowers with a dark centre and large leaves and grows up to 40-50cm in height. They are distinctive as well as vigorous growers and are grown from seed. 

We offer our full range of Trilliums for despatch in the dormant season which is from mid July until November. They are sent as freshly lifted, healthy Trillium rhizomes with live roots in moist packing material.  Our rhizomes are at least 4 years old.  Given the right situation and soil they should flower after 1 year of planting.  

Trilliums enjoy light shade with well-drained soil. The varieties we offer make good garden plants in the UK. To find out more about planting your Trillium flexipes ‘Harvington Hybrids’ (from flexipes x simile) rhizomes, please see our Trillium Planting Advice sheet.  

Our Trilliums are propagated and grown by Twelve Nunns Nursery, a specialist nursery based in South Lincolnshire. The parent plants have been either split to produce more plants or hand-pollinated to produce seeds and grown on.  None of the plants we supply are from wild stock. Our Trilliums have been featured in a couple of publications as follows: –  

Gardens Illustrated   

https://www.twelvenunns.co.uk/nursery/wp-content/uploads/ARTICLE_GI_232_PPTrilliums6.pdf  

Trillium: The best trilliums to grow in your garden, plus growing advice – Gardens Illustrated

The English Garden  

https://www.twelvenunns.co.uk/nursery/wp-content/uploads/TheEnglishGarden_PublishedArticle_April2015.pdf 

 

Harvington Single Apricot (Seeds)

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Our Harvington Hellebore Seeds are despatched during July through to early August.  There are at least 6 seeds per packet.  We enclose a planting advice sheet with every order.

Our seeds are collected from plants selected for clarity of flower colour, attractive bold foliage and frost hardiness.  The seed is lovingly produced by means of hand pollination, and although some natural variation occurs, breeding over the last 20 years ensures that if you choose a ‘Harvington Single Apricot’ you will receive it.  They are excellent garden plants that grow reliably year after year.

Harvington Hellebores® are easy to grow, winter flowering, frost hardy perennials.  They have beautiful large flowers  from December through to the end of March with dark green glossy evergreen foliage for year round interest.

We are specialist breeders of hellebores.  All our plants and seeds are grown in England… by us!