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Scilla tubergeniana (the early, or white squill) is one of the subtlest of the small early bulbs; with a faint blue wash to the white flowers, and the undersides of the anthers bright aniline blue, and lovely soft lines on the backs of the petals shading from blue to purple... it is as if a tiny piece of sky and cloud has come to ground. The flowers are large for the diminutive foliage, and with their short stems the blooms seem somewhat crowded, so that when seen at a distance, drifts of these bulbs are quite striking against the dark, early spring soil. This little squill hails from Iran, and I have therefore also seen it called the Persian bluebell.
This is a flower that merits laying on your stomach to marvel at the beauty of its ethereal little flowers, though if you're a mouth breather you could easily end up inhaling a honeybee (which might make you get a bad case of hives) :o)


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