This is always my cue to begin planting bulbs whose exotic flowers and warm colours help extend the season of interest in your plot later into the year. If you are up for experimenting with wild-card options, here are three quirky summer bulbs for you to try, both indoors and out. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gloriously eccentric: gloriosa lily with its unusual spidery flowers. Finally, if you have a conservatory or empty corner in a warm room, you would need to look pretty far to find a climber more dramatic and unusual than the gloriosa lily (Gloriosa rothschildiana) from Africa and Asia. That’s a weird description, I know, but flowers this wonderfully strange can be a challenge to the vocabulary!

Source: The Guardian March 04, 2018 06:00 UTC