Pink sunshine
Amateur Gardening|November 14, 2020
It might be cold outside, but as long as Toby has his favourite nerines to keep him company, he’s in the pink
Toby Buckland
Pink sunshine

IF I had to choose a desert-island flower, the bloom I’d rescue from the breakers is Nerine ‘Zeal Giant’. I love shocking-pink flowers, and this nerine’s petals are pinker than the Pink Panther sharing candyfloss with a flamingo… in the back of a pink Cadillac.

This plant also knows how to survive a shipwreck. Nerines hark from the Western Cape of South Africa, but when the first bulbs arrived on Blighty, rather than trot down a gangplank at a port they bobbed onto a beach after floating free from the hold of a stricken ship. This was back in the mid-17th century in Guernsey, where, thanks to the mild maritime climate, the flowers naturalised to become a cornerstone for the cut-flower industry of the Channel Islands. This Crusoe-esque survival and colonisation is celebrated in the nerine’s Latin name of N. sarniensis – Sarnia, as if you didn’t know, being the Roman name for Guernsey.

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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة November 14, 2020 من Amateur Gardening.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.