We've got to the end of an era. This website, sadly, no long sells nerines. The collection is now moved into the hands of Exbury Gardens as both Theo and I are getting older. So, in future, we are now only selling plants to visitors to the collection at the Glasshouse during flowering time and also at the Exbury Gardens Plant Center. So, if you want beautiful nerines, come visit us here instead.

The galleries still have all the different images of the plants in the collection for

you to enjoy.

​The joy of collecting nerines is the enormous variation of colourways within the hybrids - from orange to white to pink and purple, some with straight petals, some with really crinkly, and all of them sparkle in sunlight.*

Go to the Gallery pages

You can get our full picture catalogue either hardback or soft back or an e-book from our publishers. Press the button to get to blurb.co.uk

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A selection of our best flowers

The specie nerine sarniensis come originally from South Africa, where the orange flowering bulbs grow in the mountains of the southern Cape Province. They arrived in Europe in the 1600's and made their home on the island of Guernsey, from whence they get their common name of the 'Guernsey Lily'. They also are sometimes called the 'Jewel Lily' for the sparkle effect of sunlight on their petals.
​These nerines flower in the Autumn after a period of summer dormancy. They require a frost-free growing area or greenhouse as they are unable to tolerate prolonged frost and, if kept in the proper environment, are extremely long lived. The best climate being akin to that of the northern Mediterranean, which is similar to their home conditions of a cool, wet, winter and a hot dry summer.

Our Glasshouse in full flower

 We grow our nerines in the Glasshouse at the world famous Exbury Gardens in the New Forest in Hampshire, England (www.exbury.co.uk). Nerines.com, our web name, is not a commercial grower. It is merely probably the largest private collection of these lovely plants in the UK. As our bulbs split and multiply (which they do all by themselves!) we have surplus bulbs for sale ranging in price depending on what we consider to be good, very good, better and best. The money raised goes towards the upkeep of the collection.  They can be bought from the Glasshouse by appointment with Theo 07748 664704 or from the October display or Exbury Gardens Plant Center..

The 'Galleries+' pages feature almost all of our named varieties, some with their star ratings.

*The sparkle comes from the fact that the cells on the surface of the petals are reflective and angled in all different directions - this when the sunlight hits them the effect is to make them shine individually, creating the sparkle.