white bell shaped lily 10 WHITE AFRICAN HYACINTH aka Cape or Giant Summer / Spire Lily

white bell shaped lily 10 WHITE AFRICAN HYACINTH aka Cape or Giant Summer / Spire LilyDESCRIPTION: NAME: White African Hyacinth OTHER COMMON NAMES: Giant Summer Hyacinth Spire Lily Cape Hyacinth Berg Lily SCIENTIFIC NAME: Ornithogalum Candicans Galtonia Candicans Hyacinthus Candicans COLOR: Pure White PLANT SEEDS: Outdoors after frost Indoors weeks before last frost BLOOM TIME: Late Summer (Aug Sept in the N Hemisphere) HARDINESS ZONE: 6 11 PLANT HEIGHT: 36 48" PLANT SPACING: 15 18" LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES:

DESCRIPTION:

NAME: White African Hyacinth

OTHER COMMON NAMES: Giant Summer Hyacinth / Spire Lily / Cape Hyacinth / Berg Lily

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Ornithogalum Candicans / Galtonia Candicans / Hyacinthus Candicans

COLOR: Pure White

PLANT SEEDS: Outdoors after frost / Indoors weeks before last frost

BLOOM TIME: Late Summer (Aug - Sept in the N Hemisphere)

HARDINESS ZONE: 6 - 11

PLANT HEIGHT: 36 - 48"

PLANT SPACING: 15 - 18"

LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun

SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average

QUANTITY: 10 Seeds

OTHER: The White African Hyacinth is indeed native to the Southeastern African mainland as well as the Island of Madagascar. Their hanging bell-shaped blooms are deliciously fragrant, & will attract bees & butterflies. They have a long bloom time of around 6 weeks, & are also a long lasting cut flower.

I don’t think the photos really portray the scale of these beauties. From the photos, they look basically like a Snowbell or Snowdrop, but the African Hyacinth is a much larger & showier plant. The spikes of flowers measure up to 4 feet tall with many flowers per stalk, & each flower measures 1 ¼” long. The thick strap-shaped leaves resemble those of an Iris, & measure 2 - 3 feet long themselves.

These plants will form bulbs (and seeds) that can be divided to spread their cheer, & each bulb sends up several stalks of flowers. They are fairly cold hardy (perennial down to zone 6) but the bulbs can be dug & stored for winter in cooler climates. The White African Hyacinth is a winner of the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

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Photo Credit: 1 By C T Johansson - Own work, CC BY 3.0, httpscommons.wikimedia.orgwindex.phpcurid=42971157