‘Alba’ Chionodoxa

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‘Alba’ Chionodoxa

Chionodoxa forbesii Long-lasting all-white flowers. A lovely complement to one of the other varieties, or wonderful in a mini-vase. Starlike flowers, 3–10 per raceme.

Does well in shade, woodland gardens and short grass as well as full sun; can eventually form vast colonies. From the Greek chion ‘snow’ and doxa ‘glory’; pronounced kee-on-oh-doks-uh. Formerly Chionodoxa luciliae, C. gigantea. In 2020, Chionodoxa was subsumed into Scilla. Native to woods and mountains of Crete, Cyprus and western Turkey.

4–8" tall. Early Spring blooms, Z3-8, 5cm/up bulbs.



6461 ‘Alba’
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A: 10 for $5.50   
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C: 100 for $36.00   
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Novelties and Specialties

The Royal General Bulbgrowers Association in Holland (Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur, or KAVB) puts this large group of diverse flowers into a boring catch-all category: Miscellaneous Bulbs. The expensive catalogs call them accent bulbs; some call them minor or dwarf bulbs (even though some of the fritillaries are huge!); Louise Beebe Wilder covered most of them in her 1936 classic Adventures with Hardy Bulbs. Whatever you call them, most are sweet, colorful, and completely welcome in spring.