Growing Siberian Squill: Tips at a Glance
- Type Flowering bulb
- Lifespan Perennial
- USDA Zones 2-9
- Light Sun or shade
- Water Well-drained soil
- When to Plant Autumn
- Design Tip Drifts of blue
- Other Uses Pots and planters
- Peak Season Early spring
Siberian Squill: A Field Guide
Scilla siberica is an arresting flower despite its diminutive size, thanks to what gardening writer Henry Mitchell called its “sharp, gentian-blue good looks.”
Siberian Squill grows no taller than six inches but is so prone to naturalizing—some might call its behavior invasive—that it will quickly spread a blue carpet in a woodland or garden bed. Fragrant and drought tolerant, S. siberica flowers in early spring and looks lovely mingling with snowdrops, wood anemones, and glory-of-the-snow.
