eremurus

Tulips, alliums, fritillaria and eremurus go to ground after they have flowered with good reason – because they come from areas of the world that have short wet periods followed by months of drought and searing heat.

Light up your garden with bulbs 2010

It was pure luck to get the verbena butterfly shot, I was trying to take pictures of the eremurus nearby and just turned around, the camera was already on.

I Thoughteth They Were Flowers « Fairegarden 2010

Veronica ‘Georgia Blue’ groundcover, nigella foliage in left corner, spiky foliage of eremurus showing.

Blue In The Garden-Part Three « Fairegarden 2007

Now there bloomed hollyhocks and the blushing amber eremurus, more brilliant than the lupin, yellow below and rising to a red color at its tip like a flaming candle.

Call Of The Heart Delamere, Wanda 1982

If an eremurus appears too soon above ground, it is well just to cover it over with loose litter of some sort, so that it may not be nipped by spring frosts; and one experienced grower has said that it answers to lift them after blossoming, and to keep them out of the ground for a few weeks, so that they may be sufficiently retarded.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various

Then I remembered that this eremurus is native to the Pamir and Tien Shan mountains in central Asia, where the winters are terribly harsh.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

Foxtail lilies (eremurus), which come in a range of colours, produce tall bottlebrushes of flowers in midsummer, growing from one to two metres.

icNewcastle 2009