Triteleia Lawns  ✿
Channel: zuditaka
Date: 2015-09-06

✿  White Triteleias  ✿

Pretty Triteleias are drought-hardy and tough little flowers that bloom in spring from corms planted in autumn. You can get them in most nurseries or bulb catalogues. 

They do very well here, where I am, without too much summer water, and seem to come up okay, year after year. The bulbs don't dry out and die, in the furnace heat of summer, like daffodils and jonquils can, out this way.

I think the "White Stars" variety of Triteleia would be good for country churches or abandoned cemetery gardens where the white flowers could provide a bit of drought-resistant prettiness. White periwinkle (Vinca major) are sometimes found surviving okay in drought-ridden gardens of churchyards and country cemeteries. 

White Triteleias would be very good for this, too, as people like a bit of white near churches--whether for weddings or funerals or whatever. Sometimes you see tough white irises surviving out by country churches and cemeteries, too. So they are a very good idea, as well.

I tend to prefer the white Triteleias to the blue ones, but that's just me. I think the white ones would make a nice subject for embroidery--not that I embroider, of course, but I do have some aesthetic and artistic sense. 

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