Rothschildiana

There are few summer flowers as improbably beautiful as the gloriosa lily. Rothschildiana climbs by tendrils, reaching upward through supports or other plants, and in July and August produces its extraordinary reflexed blooms, flame red at the petal tips deepening to yellow at the base, with dramatically swept back petals that give the flower the look of something caught mid flight. Exotic in appearance but rewarding to grow in a sheltered spot or large container, it creates the kind of summer display that makes the garden feel genuinely tropical. A single tuber, planted with a little ambition and a good support, will produce more spectacular blooms than most people expect. Dutch grown and selected by BLOM for the vigorous tubers that perform most beautifully.