Perennial Trumpet Flowers

Perennial Trumpet Flowers (Incarvillea) - Among the most distinct and handsome plants of recent introduction. All are perennials, sometimes with a fleshy root and soft tissues, in others woody and sub-shrubby in character. Their flowers are large, handsome and trumpet-shaped. They thrive best in warm soils, deep and rich to favour their strong roots, and well drained to preserve them from stagnant moisture in winter.

Incarvillea Breviscapa - A rather dwarf, hardy and good kind, which often succeeds where other kinds perish. Rock garden in ordinary soil.

Dwarf Trumpet Flower (Incarvillea Compacta) - This is a shy bloomer, bearing upon short stalks, hardly rising above the leaves, clusters of deep pink flowers, funnel-shaped, and about 2 1/2 inches long. It is found in forms with stalks of various lengths, but is usually of compact habit.

Delavays Trumpet Flower (Incarvillea Delavayi) - Vigorous and handsome perennial, flowering in the second year from seed sown in April. The dark green leaves vary in length, and often reach 2 feet long, and are finely cut, fleshy, and of a peculiar odour when handled. In cold districts the fleshy root may be lifted and stored like a Dahlia, but must be covered with soil and not allowed to dry. Well planted, the tubers gain force each season, forming at last masses of five or six flower-stems of about a yard high, with ten to fifteen trumpet-shaped flowers in a cluster, the lower ones drooping loosely from the central mass.

Incarvillea Grandiflora - Of this the flowers are larger than those of I. Delavayi, and the habit of the plant is dwarfer, with shorter leaves and rounded leaflets, while it blooms about a fortnight earlier. Its root, large and fleshy, is less tuberous, throwing a scanty rosette of leaves rather more than a foot long, of deep shining green, and in young plants prostrate, arching when older. On a strong mature plant they are nearly 4 inches across and 2 to 3 inches deep in the tube, the limb being divided into four broad lobes of soft rosy-carmine, deepening towards the yellow tube, and relieved by handsome white blotches in the throat. It is easily raised and grown from seed in rich, free soil; seedlings take three or four years to flower.

Princess Trumpet Flower (Incarvillea Olgae) - A handsome perennial of shrubby habit, and hardy in all but cold districts. Its pretty cut leaves are borne upon long, straggling stems of 4 or 5 feet, which rather spoil its beauty. The tubular flowers, about an inch long and wide, are of a pretty pale pink, borne in loose clusters upon very short stalks during summer. Turkestan.

Fern-leaved Trumpet Flower (Incarvillea Variabilis) - A shrubby perennial of fine habit, hardy in light, warm soils, and in mild districts. The flowers, borne upon stems of about 2 feet, are an inch long and of a beautiful light rose, with finely-cut foliage of vivid green. It is beautiful for several weeks during late summer and early autumn.

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