Herbaceous Bulbs: General

A Herbaceous plant is defined as a non-woody plant which usually dies back to ground level and grows again from the rootstock each year.

This group includes:

· non-woody, evergreen perennials which retain some leafy presence above ground during the winter months; e.g. Helleborus spp., Euphorbia spp., Bergenia spp.

· Grasses and grass like plants, e.g. Stipa spp., Festuca spp., Galanthus spp.

· Some sub-shrubs (defined as ‘‘shrub-like plants, but with the woody parts confined to the lower proportion of the plant’’), e.g. Helianthemum spp., Thymus spp.

All these plants are non-woody and include what might be more colloquially defined as: herbaceous plants, ferns, grasses, sedges, marginals, aquatics, bulbs, corms, rhizomatous and tuberous plants, herbs and non-woody vigorous alpine plants.

These plants are sold in two forms: as PLANTS and as PERENNATING/STORAGE

ORGANS, e.g. BULBS, CORMS, TUBERS.

GROUP B: THOSE SOLD AS BULBS, CORMS AND TUBERS

Some bulbous plants (Crocosmia spp., Dierama spp., Arum spp.) are usually supplied as PLANTS (see Section HP.A). Other bulbous plants (e.g. Cyclamen spp., Galanthus spp.) may be sold as dry bulbs or corms but establish better if planted ‘in the green’ or as pot grown plants. All bulbs can be grown under contract in pots and supplied as growing plants, if so specified.

Herbaceous Bulbs: Name

Each plant must be specified by giving its full BOTANICAL name. For full details of the specification terms used in naming plants see TREES.