Gravetye Giant Summer Snowflake

bulbs
Leucojum aestivum var. Gravetye Giant
Mid to late spring blooms.

Pure white bells with scalloped edges and green spots resemble Snowdrops, but the flowers are twice as big and bloom a month later, and the plant is three times as tall. Summer Snowflake has 5–9 faintly violet-scented flowers per stem, evoking giant lilies-of-the-valley. Blooms for several weeks.

Will spread in a damp—but not wet—location; prefers heavy soil and bright light, but not direct sun. Plant bulbs promptly lest they dry out. Also called Lodden Lily. Species is native from Ireland to the Caucasus; Gravetye Manor was the home and laboratory of William Robinson, 19th-century botanist and author of The Wild Garden.

Z4-9. 12-13cm.

18-36" tall.
ships in fall

6535 Gravetye Giant Summer Snowflake

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Quick Details
Bloom Time
mid to late spring
Height
18-36"
Shipping

Items from our perennial plants warehouse will ship around September 30 through October. Bulbs can be planted successfully up until your ground freezes.

Note to Alaska and far north customers: We cannot guarantee an early shipment, so please plan accordingly and order early.

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Additional Information

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.