Bulbs: Fall-flowering bulbs, 1 by Leftwood

Leftwood wrote:
Cyclamen purpurescens is the most cold hardy here also, but much harder to find sources for it. Most hederifolium are hardy here too, but you can come upon less hardy genetics, at least for our z4 climate.

Scilla scilliodes I have had since 2001. It seems to like more moisture than you would think. Most years (the good blooming years) foilage remains all summer, almost up to blooming. Heat doesn't seem to bother it as much as water availability. This year, just since mid June, we are running with a 6 inch deficit of rainfall. That's right, we have had almost none. scilliodes leaves disappeared the first week of July. I have just a couple lone flower spikes now. Scilla numidica (seems to be just a larger growing scilliodes, and maybe it is) hasn't shown flower spikes at all.