Bulbs and Tubers

The garden's hidden clock. Bulbs and tubers wait out of sight and rise on their own schedule, opening flowers that seem to arrive from nowhere and then retreating underground to wait for the next year.

7 plants in this collection

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№ 001
Hymenocallis liriosme, spring spiderlily, fragrant white spider-flower with narrow radiating segments and a central staminal cup
Spring Spiderlily
Hymenocallis liriosmeSpring Spiderlily

Few native bulbs command a wet margin the way Hymenocallis liriosme does. From a basal fountain of arching, strap-shaped, glossy green leaves rise leafless scapes, each crowned with several large white flowers whose narrow segments splay outward like pale spider legs around a central membranous cup. The fragrance arrives at dusk, sweet and carrying, a signal to the night-flying moths that pollinate the blooms in late spring and early summer.

Hardiness
Zones 7–10
Light
Full Sun / Part Shade
Height
1–2 ft.
Spread
1–2 ft.
Bloom
White
Plant type
Perennial
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№ 002
Zephyranthes atamasco, atamasco lily, white pink-flushed rain-lily flowers over grassy foliage
Atamasco Lily
Zephyranthes atamascoAtamasco Lily

A native lily that answers the rain. Zephyranthes atamasco, the atamasco lily or rain lily, is a bulbous perennial of the amaryllis family, native to moist woods and meadows of the Southeastern United States. The name atamasco comes from the Powhatan people of the Virginia tidewater, an old word carried into botany, and the plant has also long been called Easter lily for the season of bloom.

Hardiness
Zones 6–9
Light
Full Sun / Part Shade
Height
6–12 in.
Spread
6–12 in.
Bloom
White
Plant type
Perennial
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