Pink semi-double flowers from carmine buds and dark foliage at flowering

Very full double form, many small rounded inner petals, surrounded by a ring of normal ones.

Anemone-centred form, very regular.

When settled, this is a full double with tiny red tips to the petals, and becoming bracteate with golden flashes in the bracts.

An unusual form found on Osterlen, in Sweden.A wonderful bracteate form of the hybrid between A. nemorosa and ranunculoides. Some of the delicate pale yellow petals flare out into leaf-like extensions.

Stunning scilla - the flowers are like tiny blue erythroniums. The exerted stamens bear turquoise blue pollen. To 15-20cm high. I grow it along with my other bulbs, given the same conditions.

Deep purple flowers, reputed to be less hardy than the others.

An amazing variety found in Norway after the Chernobyl disaster. The double flowers are very variable from season to season and flower to flower on the same plant. Flowers usually contain a mixture of white, green and crimson.

The most amazing of the Estonian yellows - flowers can vary from season to season, and within the same plant in one season. The flower usually has striking green petaloids emerging from the centre of the flower, but some flowers will be almost normal or with a condensed, dark green centre.

Very pretty anemone centred form with wide, overlapping outer petals and a full centre with green eye. Good increaser.

One whorl of petaloids in the centre, among the whorls of stamens.

(syn Merendera montana) Autumn flowering bulb, compact growth, pink-violet flowers. Great pot or rock-garden subject. Photo courtesy Flickr

Very free-flowering species with bright blue flowers.

A rare bigeneric cross between Chionodoxa and Scilla. Lots of bright blue flowers in spring.

Odd anemone centred variety with brownish-olive ring of petalloids surrounding the white centre boss.

Anemone-centred double with spiky inner petals, and a ring of stamens between the inners and outers. One of the first to be discovered.

Vigorous double form with many long narrow petaloid stamens.

An irregular anemone centred type with varying numbers of petaloids in the centre.

A very unusual Chinese fritillaria with yellow chubby bells chequered with brown on short stalks. The leaves are fascinating, ground hugging, leathery and with netted veins. Offered are bags containing 1 (hopefully flowering sized) bulb, 3 smaller bulb and many rice-grain bulblets for you to grow on as well. Growing instructions included.

The stunning "Chilean Crocus" – not a crocus at all, but bears 5cm wide deep gentian-blue flowers over short neat leaves in spring. Lives happily in my just-damp plunge over the summer when dormant. Only a few.

Very full double, small green centre.

A pretty whirligig of spiky petalloids in the centre.

Characterised by a deep warm gold colour. An anemone-centred form, full centre with pointed inners.

Hybrid of A. nemorosa and ranunculoides, with pale sulphur flowers. Selected form found in Antiesental, Austria.

Selected by Jānis Rukšāns as the best pink form of the species.

The almost equally lovely pale azure, white-centred form of the above, requiring similar conditions.