Puschkinia libanotica

Create A Carpet Of Soft Spring Blooms That Multiply Year After Year
Just £11.99
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60 x Bulbs - SKU: 600465 - *Despatched from 06/08/2025
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Key Features

  • One of the most charming and underrated spring bulbs, with soft blue blooms striped with deeper colour for a beautifully natural effect
  • Ideal for naturalising in lawns, under trees, or between perennials where they return each spring with more flowers
  • Compact and low-growing but striking in mass plantings, attracting early pollinators with their nectar
  • Easy to plant and extremely low maintenance, thriving in most soils and conditions with excellent winter hardiness
  • Supplied as 60 bulbs, size 5/6
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Description

A true springtime gem... If you've never grown Puschkinia libanotica before, let us introduce you to an early spring bulb packed with quiet charm. And once it’s in, it just keeps giving.

Commonly called the 'Striped Squill', these lovely little bulbs burst into flower just as the garden is waking up from winter. Each bloom is a soft powder blue, beautifully striped with deeper blue through the centre of each petal, like nature's own pinstripe. Subtle but striking, and when you plant them en masse, the carpet effect is astonishing.

Grow through lawns, under trees, in borders, between paving or even tucked into pots. Wherever you plant them, they just work. They're low-growing, around 10cm tall, so they never overpower, but they create a magical sea of blue that early pollinators absolutely love.

What’s more, they naturalise beautifully. So each year, you'll get more flowers, more colour, and more spring cheer, with no effort from you. Just plant them once, and let nature do the rest. They're fully hardy, disease resistant, and thrive in most well-drained soils in sun or partial shade.

Supplied as a set of 60 bulbs, size 5/6.

Top Tips
  • Which way up? Usually pointy end upwards, but if you are not sure, plant the bulb on its side and it will eventually right itself.
  • Add mycorrhizal fungi to the roots before planting to encourage faster and more reliable establishment.
Care Information

Planting Advice for your bulbs:

  • It is best to get your bulbs in the ground as soon as you can so that they can establish a good root system before the weather becomes too cold.
  • Please check the bag for any additional planting instructions.
  • Plant bulbs 10-15cm deep and 10cm apart.
  • They are fine to plant even if a little green growth is showing; they will just need a good watering when you plant them, and thereafter only when the soil is dry.
  • Leave them in the ground once they die back, they will come back bigger and better each year.
  • While all the energy that a bulb needs in order to grow is stored in the bulb itself, they will do better if you feed them when in active green growth.
  • Plant in herbaceous borders, in pots, or leave in the ground to naturalise.

Aftercare Advice for your bulbs:

  • Water frequently and if in pots, ensure that the compost doesn't dry out.
Delivery Information

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.

Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.

We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.

Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.

Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

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1. If you're not totally happy with your order, return it within 30 days and we'll replace or refund in full!
2. Should any hardy plant fail to thrive thereafter, we'll replace free of charge - you just pay the P&P
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