Erythroniums
I love these spring bulbs with their delicate reflexed flowers on relatively tall stems above, depending on the species and cultivar, mottled leaves giving the North American species the common name of trout lilies. These are woodland plants in the wild, but open woodland, with deep moist soils and abundant light in the spring, but offering protection from harsh, baking conditions in the summer and autumn.
They thrive in conditions like this...
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| Erythronium revolutum 'Johnsonii Group' |
They're not just pink. Consider the yellow E. tuolumnense, usually available as the cultivar 'Kondo'...
...or the pinkish yellow shades of the E. californicum x tuolumnense hybrid 'Joanna'/
They're even a good nectar source, as witnessed by this Brimstone butterfly feeding an early spring.
Versatile plants, they deserve a place in any garden that can offer the open woodland like conditions they need to thrive.
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