Summer Snowflake first blooms around the end of April or the first of May, about a week after dogwoods finish. The white flowers are individually about the size of a quarter, but borne in a flat head that is to four inches across.
Summer Snowflake (Leucojum aestivum): This easy bulb actually blooms in mid-to late spring. Small, white, bell-shaped flowers tipped with green are borne on each 20-inch stem.
Summer Snowflake
Summer Snowflake (Leucojum Aestivum) - A vigorous plant, flowers white drooping on stalks 1 to 1 1/2 feet high, and clusters of four to eight on a stem, with leaves shaped like those of Daffodils.
Summer snowflakes bloom with abandoned in Steve's perennial garden.
Description
The snowflakes are bulbous perennials with threadlike or straplike leaves and nodding, dainty white flowers.
Summer Snowflake, or
Loddon Lily
Underneath the is a patch of Summer Snowflake or Snowflake Lily (Leucojum aestivum). These poke their thick green blades out of the ground in January & become taller & taller through February & March.
Description:
Summer Snowflake has white, pendulous, bell-shaped flowers in late Spring, with two or more flowers per scape. Its foliage is like Narcissus, and its flowers are like Lily-of-the-Valley on steroids.
1. 'Whitespire' birch (zones 4-9); 2. 'Goldflame' spiraea (3-8); 3. Sargent juniper (3-9); 4. 'Summer Snowflake' viburnum (4-7); 5. 'Seagreen' juniper (3-9); 6. 'Emerald'n Gold' winter creeper(5-8); 7. Compact peegee hydrangea(3-8) ...
Leucojum aestivum 'Gravetye Giant'
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Hardiness Zones:
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National Arboretum that is very floriferous. 'Shoshoni' is a smaller-sized seedling of 'Shasta.' The literature indicates its mature size at 5'x 8'. 'Summer Snowflake,' as the name suggests, spits out a few flowers all summer long.
Goosefoot, Stinking Hawksbeard, Stinking Hellebore, Stinking Iris, Stinking Tutsan, Stone Bramble, Stone Parsley, Strapwort, Strawberry Clover, Strawberry Tree, String Sedge, Suffocated Clover, Sulphur Cinquefoil, Sulphur Clover, Summer Snowflake, ...
 See also: Snowflake, Green, Lily, May, Viburnum
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