Nutans

Ornithogalum Nutans carries its nodding white and silver green blooms on arching stems in March to May, creating the kind of quietly unusual spring display that rewards gardeners who look beyond the conventional. Naturalising steadily in borders and grass, it builds over years into broad, graceful drifts that look as though they have always been there, half wildflower, half considered garden plant, occupying a beautiful middle ground between the two. Its blooms are at their most beautiful in the shade of deciduous trees, where the silver green markings catch the dappled light with an almost luminous quality. Cut and arranged in a vase, the stems curve and nod with a natural elegance that is very difficult to achieve with more upright flowers. Dutch grown and selected by BLOM for healthy bulbs that naturalise well.