Description
Once the most common Nomocharis grown – and listed on various societies’ seed lists – seeds of the “hybrid swarm” of Nomocharis originating from the Knox-Finlays (Mrs. and Major, to be exact) at Keillour Castle in Perthshire. A lovely hybrid, likely better adapted to garden conditions than many recent species introductions, with spotted, pale pink flowers on some 70cm tall stems in early summer. Worth growing both for it’s historic value – and for the fact it has managed to adapt to and survive in cultivation for close to a century, only now risking extinction due to the availability of pure species.
Nomocharis is already hard enough to delineate in the wild, and there’s really nothing (other than history) that would make these particular plants stand out as hybrids if you saw them in the wild in nowhere, Nujiang.
12+ seeds per package. Collected 2025.
Image © Finn Karlsen
