Crinum So Sweet Black Flowering Plants Well-drained soils are very important

Well-drained soils are very important for success with Helleborus niger

Bill Meyer

Gentiana catesbyi is named after Mark Catesby

The olive-green foliage is nicely marked with liver-purple speckles

even into November (NC)

Crinum So Sweet Black Flowering Plants Well-drained soils are very importantCrinum 'So Sweet' is a Plant Delights Nursery introduction of a Dave Lehmiller cross of Crinum lugardiae x Crinum americanum that has performed incredibly well in our trials. The tiny, sparsely offsetting clump is topped, starting in early August (NC), and continuing through September, with 2' flower spikes of narrow petalled, pure white, lightly fragrant flowers. This superb dwarf crinum lily is the smallest hardy crinum lily hybrid that we've seen