‘We only have so much space at the moment and we were given a lot by someone in the UK a few years ago,’ said committee member Jill Bishop. ‘So it will be “buy one, get one free”.’
Which variety a customer gets will be subject to availability, but the flowers will already be in bloom.
‘It takes five years for the bulb to get to the flowering stage,’ she said.
This year has been particularly good for the plants.
‘The glasshouse looks amazing and in another few days even more will be out,’ Ms Bishop said.
Some blooms were sold earlier in the season at a Plant Heritage sale because they had flowered so early.
The festival is at Guernsey Gardens, La Ramee, on Saturday and will be open 10am to 4pm until Saturday 25 October.
This is a special year for the group, which is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Nerine Festival, so extra events are being organised.
Dr John David from the Royal Horticultural Society Garden, Wisley, will be talking about the Nerine Bowdenii at Les Cotils on Monday 13 at 7pm, while Dr Graham Duncan from Kirstenbosch National Botanic Gardens in Cape Town will be talking about the gardens and the South African bulbs that can be grown in Guernsey, on Wednesday 22 October.
And Nerine Group leader Andrew Lanoe is giving two talks in which he shows visitors around the collection and tell them about Nerines and the collection’s history.
For further details and to book, go to www.plantheritageguernsey.org.uk/event.
