10 WHITE AFRICAN HYACINTH aka Cape or Giant Summer / Spire Lily - Ornithogalum Candicans / Galtonia / Hyacinthus Flower Seeds
DESCRIPTION: NAME: White African Hyacinth OTHER COMMON NAMES: Giant Summer Hyacinth / Spire Lily / Cape Hyacinth / Berg Lily SCIENTIFIC NAME: Ornithogalum Candicans / Galtonia Candicans / Hyacinthus Candicans COLOR: Pure White PLANT SEEDS: Outdoors after frost / Indoors weeks before last frost BLOOM TIME: Late Summer (Aug - Sept in the N Hemisphere) HARDINESS ZONE: 6 - 11 PLANT HEIGHT: 36 - 48" PLANT SPACING: 15 - 18" LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average QUANTITY: 10 Seeds OTHER: The White African Hyacinth is indeed native to the Southeastern African mainland as well as the Island of Madagascar. Their hanging bell-shaped blooms are deliciously fragrant, & will attract bees & butterflies. They have a long bloom time of around 6 weeks, & are also a long lasting cut flower. I don’t think the photos really portray the scale of these beauties. From the photos, they look basically like a Snowbell or Snowdrop, but the African Hyacinth is a much larger &