Alstroemeria
Peruvian Lily
These stunning plants add an exotic touch to the border and a refined look to any flower arrangement with their elaborate blend of vivaciously colored and intricately marked flowers. The Lily-like blooms are borne in large heads above bushy spreading clumps of linear foliage. Thriving in well-drained soil, Alstroemerias need protection from intense sun and extreme winters. Mulch heavily in colder areas or try planting in a container, bringing them into a cool garden room for the winter.
Beloved since debuting in William Robinson’s 1883 book, “The English Flower Garden”, this charming spring treasure champions large creamy grayish-blue buds and chalice-shaped lavender-blue flowers garnished with broad rings of golden stamens atop short upright stalks. Linear, deeply toothed segments sculpt the handsome dark green foliage, which leaps from fibrous mat-forming rhizomes and later goes summer dormant. Bestowed a well-earned AGM, ‘Robinsoniana’ is tailor-made for broad sweeps either as an easy-care woodland filler or a pest-free ground cover beneath shrubs like Spirea or Pieris. Dappled light to deep shade plus fertile, well-drained and slightly acidic soil help it fend off deer, bunnies and dry summer conditions.
Blooms March–May
Size: 6" high x 10" – 12" wide.
Hardy to zone 4.
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Other selections in this genus:
- Alstroemeria ‘Casablanca’
- Alstroemeria ‘Champagne’
- Alstroemeria ‘Compact Red’
- Alstroemeria ‘Duchess d’Anjou Beatrice’
- Alstroemeria ‘Dusty Rose’
- Alstroemeria ‘Henry’s Violet’
- Alstroemeria ‘Inca Rio®’
- Alstroemeria ‘Lavender Blush’
- Alstroemeria majestic ‘Layon’
- Alstroemeria ‘Marjorie’s Hybrid’
- Alstroemeria ‘Meyer’s Rose’
- Alstroemeria ‘Princess Victoria’
- Alstroemeria ‘Princess Fabiana’
- Alstroemeria ‘Princess Lilian’
- Alstroemeria ‘Rachel’
- Alstroemeria ‘Red Valley’
- Alstroemeria ‘Third Harmonic’
- Alstroemeria violacea ‘Yellow Friendship’
