Asphodelus ramosus

We are inundated with questions about this plant when it is flowering in the mid to late spring in the garden. A southern European plant which grows in pine woods, olive groves and heavily grazed land from south west Spain to Greece. Sometimes evergreen but summer dormant here these last few years. A. ramosus makes 120cm tall branching spikes which carry hundreds of flowers, coffee coloured in bud opening to white stars narrowly striped coffee. In flower for a good eight weeks during late spring and early summer it is happy in sun or light shade. 120cm x 50cm.