Camassia
How to Propagate
and Grow Successfully

Camassia originates from North America and Canada and are a genus of bulbous perennial summer flowering gardening plants.

Leaves are long and linear, light to mid-green.

Flowers form in thick massed racemes, flowers are star or cup shaped and colours range from white, cream, lavender to blue.

Essential info

Genus: Camassia

Family: Liliaceae

Species: Quamash

Common Names: Common camassia, Quamash.

Classification: Bulb.

Height: 80cm (32inches).

Flowering: Throughout summer.

Where to plant info

Camassia are a very versatile gardening plant and you can use them effectively in many settings and mixed planting arrangements.

Where: Ideal for mixed summer borders and beds.

They are excellent in woodland or wildlife gardens.

Grow them as pond marginal’s for a striking effect.

They are very useful in cut flower arrangements.

Site: They prefer full sun, they thrive in it!

They will do best sheltered from winds.

Soil: Any deep, rich and moist soil.

Propagation info By seed in autumn.

How to sow seeds..... read on

By division end of summer.

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