Showing posts with label Atlas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Atlas. Show all posts

Monday, 10 December 2012

Ranunculus


Ranunculus calandrinioides
Ranunculus calandrinoides

Ranunculus is an amazingly varied genus and I have a bit of a thing for them. This is one of the species found in the Western Mediterranean region with glaucous elliptical leaves (almost like a small Hosta) and gorgeous white flowers, slightly pink tinted. This species (from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco) is winter green and winter flowering, and although cold-hardy, is not generally recommended for outdoors. Perfectly easy in a pot in an unheated greenhouse, kept dry in summer but well watered and fed when in growth. 
£8


Ranunculus platanifolius
Ranunculus platanifolius
A very easy and adaptable, and frankly just very lovely white flowering buttercup. Fresh and easy, and did I say lovely? Suitable for any retentive soil in sun or semi shade. Not even slightly invasive.
£8