Ipheion Bulbs
Ipheion flower bulbs will be available to order from spring 2025 for delivery and planting in autumn 2025.
Great for planting in groups, Ipheion also known as Spring Starflower are low-growing perennials that produce multiple flowers per bulb that come in a wide range of colours. These stunning star-shaped flowers carry a sweet fragrance and are popular for filling gaps in borders.
Like everything we supply here at Boston Seeds, we pride ourselves on supplying professional quality - and for flower bulbs, that means BIG! Our bigger bulbs produce bigger, better and bolder flowers. Choose from our exciting range of varieties - Ipheion Wisley Blue Bulbs, old favourites, garden classics as well as striking new lines for 2025.
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Making bulb planting easier, quicker and cleaner, our bulb planter is the ideal tool for helping you plant your larger spring-flowering bulbs.
- Made of high quality steel
- Automatic release on handle
- Duroplast coating - impact, elastic, abrasion, and corrosion resistant
- Perfect for planting larger flower bulbs such as daffodils, tulips, alliums, hyacinths and more
The ultimate tool for planting quickly and easily your plants and bulbs. A quality, solid ash handle securely fitted to a stainless steel blade, the traditional design is ideal to assist in planting your plants and bulbs into beds, borders and grassland.
- Made of high quality polished stainless steel
- Ash handle - sourced from a sustainable source
- Soft leather strap - ideal to hang up
- Perfect for planting wildflower plug plants and small bulbs such as snowdrops, bluebells, crocus and more
Our bulb planting essentials pack has been put together for the ease of ensuring quick planting and a great display. The bulb planter will help you plant the bulbs with ease whilst the fibre will ensure the bulbs do not rot when planted into pots or containers. Using the bulb fertiliser will ensure your bulbs have all the nutrients they need whilst establishing.
- 1 x Bulb Fibre
- 1 x Bulb Planter
- 1 x Bulb Fertiliser
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Our flowering bulb fertiliser has been specifically designed to help your spring-flowering bulbs flower to their full potential. Whether you are establishing in pots or containers, sprinkle a small amount into each hole prior to planting your bulbs. Also suitable for use in early spring to encourage your bulbs to flower well in the following season.
- Tailored to give your bulbs all the nutrients they need
- Can be mixed with compost or Bulb Fibre
- NPK - 12.11.18 + MgO
- Recommended coverage: 5kg per 200sqm. Apply at 25g/sqm
- Not suitable for use with Wildflower Bulbs
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An attractive flower suitable for all beds, borders and containers, the pure crystal white blooms appear in late spring. Also known as the Starflower, the Alberto Castillo is a popular variety.
- Height (cm): 20cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 5+cm
- Blooms: April/May
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Pink star-like flowers open up to reveal a delicate white centre, these beautiful blooms will fill your borders beds and pots. Ideal for filling gaps where the earlier flowering bulbs such as snowdrops, crocus and daffodils have now finished.
- Height (cm): 15cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 4+cm
- Blooms: April/May
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Having larger flowers than other varieties the deep purple-blue flowers will appear later in spring and add longevity to your flowering borders. Great for naturalising areas over time.
- Height (cm): 15cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 4+cm
- Blooms: April/ May
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Producing delicate star-shaped flowers, these sweetly scented blooms open to reveal their lilac-blue with white-centred flowers. Ideal for naturalising they will spread up to a meter wide.
- Height (cm): 15cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 4+cm
- Blooms: April/May
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Specifically designed to help bulbs establish in pots and borders, without the risk of the bulbs rotting, providing an open and free-draining soil structure.
- Ideal for planting with Narcissi, Crocus, Hyacinths and other spring-flowering bulbs
- Universal bulb planting fibre
- 500gm bag - This pack is sufficient for 3 x 1-litre pots
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Ipheion: Advice On How To Grow Them (And Why!)
Small, perennial flowering plants, the Ipheion also have the name Star Flower. This is taken from their star-shaped, fragrant flowers that bloom early in the spring. Originally native to South America, they are becoming a firm favourite in gardens, especially container gardens, due to their small size.
Also known as the Spring Starflower, they often have white or pale blue flowers and are cultivated for ornamental purposes. Reaching heights, no more than 15-20cm, their pleasant lily-like fragrance is delightful, and attracts bees and other pollinators, where the early food source is valuable to them.
Fun Facts
Belonging to the onion family, they are a native species to Argentina and Uruguay. Hence, why they are such sun worshippers!
How to grow
Suitable for sowing in pots as well as in rockeries, they are perfect for use in bulb lasagnes as a top layer. Planting in a border, they will naturalise over time.
Plant around 10cm deep and space them apart 5-10cm. They will do best in well-drained soils and prefer a sunnier spot in gardens, borders or pots.
Species & Styles
Previously, they have been classified under the genera Brodiaea or Triteleia, but are now recognised as a distinct genus. There are various cultivars of Ipheion, some with stronger colours than the original species.
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