Nectaroscordium siculum

Just to add my Amen to Anthony's comments - particularly the wish that it actually *were* invasive. Here on the coast in NW England, on heavy acid soil, it does well but doesn't self-seed at all (and it's one of those irritating plants which usually contrives to shed its seed before I've realised it's ready, so hasn't been increased as much as I'd like). A friend inland in the Lake District, though, in a much colder, and shadier garden, though a steeply sloping and well-drained one, has it seeding itself in drifts, spectacularly, through a bed of ferns and hellebores. It's one of those always-desirable tall-but-airy plants, which can add height and presence (and in this case grace) at the front of a border without blocking out whatever lies behind.
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