1 Scilla mischtschenkoana AGM
Not easy to spell and it doesn’t look like a scilla either, so think early puschkinia here. And that’s how it was discovered, mixed up in a bag of puschkinias. The bulb forms mounds of starry grey-blue snowflakes that nudge through the bare earth with the snowdrops.
Six months of colour bulb collection at the Telegraph Gardenshop. View >
Picture: ALAMY
