About Squills
There are over ninety species in the genus Scilla, native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa. These small bulbs usually flower in early spring, although there are a few autumn-flowering species.
Squill
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common name for two genera of Old World bulbous plants of the family Liliaceae ( family).
Spring Squill
Characteristics
Very compact perennial found in dry grassland on cliffs ...
Squill
Squill or Scilla, a eurasian plant specie of the genus Scilla in the lily family, Liliaceae ...
Scilla siberica
( White Spring Squill )
Bulbous perennial with 2 to 4 linear, basal leaves. Loose racemes of pendent, bowl-shaped white flowers bloom in spring. Good for naturalizing in garden.
Important Info : Keep dry during dormant period.
Striped squill (Puschkinia scilloides var. libanotica)
Zone 4, 10 to 15 x 10 to 15cm
Flowers: Clusters of three to six starlike, fragrant, white or pale blue flowers with blue-striped blooms in March and April ...
Squill is mentioned as a medicinal plant by Theophrastus in 300 B.C.E. & it was used by the Greek physician Epimenides, for which reason squill has also been known as Epimenidea.
Sea squill contains cardiac glycosides which are strongly diuretic and relatively quick-acting[254]. They do not have the same cumulative effect as those present in foxglove (Digitalis spp.)[254].
Crocuses and squills are often planted in the lawn. It is not to be expected that they will last more than two to three years, however, even if care is taken not to cut the tops closely when the lawn is cut.
Blue Siberian Squills (Scilla)
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Scilla is one of the earliest spring flowers to bloom. Flowering for a remarkably long time they bear clusters of bloom spikes that offer scented deep blue flowers.
Family:
Striped Squill
Family:
Hyacinthaceae (alternatively Liliaceae) ...
(Giant Squill, Measles Leaf, Family: Hyacinthaceae / Liliaceae)
Drimys winteri (Winter's Bark, Canelo, Casca de anta, Family: Winteraceae)
Drosera sp. (Sundew, Family: Droseraceae)
Duabanga grandiflora (Lampati, Family: Sonneratiaceae) ...
Lebanon squill (Puschkinia scilloides, Puschkinia libanotica)
Leek (Allium porrum)
Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis)
Lemon grass (Cymbopogon citratus)
Lemon verbena (Aloysia triphylla, Lippia citriodora) ...
Volumus quod in horto omnes herbas habeant, id est lilium, rosas, fenigrecum, costum, salviam, rutam, abrotanum, cucumeres, pepones, cucurbitas, fasiolum, ciminum, ros marinum, careium, cicerum italicum, squillam, gladiolum, dragantea, anesum, ...
Broom tops are used in the form of decoction and infusion, often with squill and ammonium and potassium acetate, as a feeble diuretic, generally in dropsical complaints of cardiac origin.
Bees in April with blue Siberian squill pollen in pollen basket
Honeybees in May with red (likely Chestnut) pollen in pollen basket
Dandelion pollen ...
Grow spring bulbs like Snowdrops, Crocus or Squill in this way. A row of identical bulbs could be lined up in a collection of cups or mugs, or mixed bulbs could be grouped in a matching sauceboat, jug, and bowl.
Ledebouria socialis (Silver Squill)
Muscari armeniacum (Grape Hyacinth)
Muscari azureum
Muscari botryoides (Common Grape Hyacinth)
Muscari comosum (Tassel Grape Hyacinth, Fringe Hyacinth)
Muscari latifolium (Grape Hyacinth)
Muscari tubergenianum ...
Muscari (Grape Hyacinth)
Fritillaria (Crown Imperial)
Narcissus (Daffodil)
Galanthus Ornithogalum Hippeastrum (Amaryllis)
Oxalis Hyacinth Scilla (Squills)
Iris (bulbous types)
Tigridia Lilium (Lily)
Tulipa (Tulip) ...
Lebanon Squill (Puschkinia scilloides)
Lebanon Stonecress (Aethionema coridifolium)
Ledebour Globeflower (Trollius ledebourii 'Golden Queen')
Leek (Allium porrum)
Lemon (Citrus limon)
Lemon (Citrus limon 'Eureka') ...
(Squill)
Setcreasea sp. (Mexican Wandering Jew)
Stachys sp. and hybrids (Betony)
Stipa sp. (Needle Grass)
Tanacetum vulgaris (Tansy)
Thalictrum sp. (Meadow Rue)
Thelypteris sp. (Fern)
Yucca sp. (Soapwort) ...
 See also: Hyacinth, Scilla, May, Lily, Grass
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