Euphorbia characias

We have both sub-species of Euphorbia characias available, i.e. ssp. wulfenii and ssp. characias. There are many named varieties of both subspecies, which should be (but aren’t always) grown from cuttings, but with many of them this is not easy to do on any scale. Consequently we offer these two from seed and although there will be a little variation all will produce strong upright plants which will flower early next spring. The main difference between the subspecies is in the colour of the nectaries; ssp wulfenii has yellow, long-horned nectaries while ssp. characias has red or dark nectaries with short horns. If you don’t know which bits are the nectaries in a Euphorbia flower it doesn’t matter – the difference is whether the flower is all yellow or yellow with darker bits. This particular batch of ssp. characias has red stems whereas ssp wulfenii has green.