Interesting stalk on this allium?
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2 new alliums; Nectaroscordum and Neapolitanum
Comments (13)Thanks for the info, Linnea56. Interesting about the strenght of the Nectaroscordum siculum stalks! Please post again next year about them and let us know how they work as stakes. FWIW, my Allium spherocephalons lean but do not flop. I have them planted in a half circle around the root ball of a standard Rose of Sharon (planted 6 years or so ago) to give some early color to the area, where otherwise there would just be a bare stick for most of the season. There are some small daylilies on the backside of the tree and some heucheras (small lime ones) in front as well. The alliums have spread around a bit and everything is a bit mingled looking now, but nothing is really holding up the alliums and it is still a little bare looking (I'm not one for much dirt or mulch showing.) I think the alliums would look better right in the midst of the daylilies and their lush green summer foliage, so I think your idea of the planting alliums with columbines is a good one. Biggest problem I have is that recently the rabbits have taken to eating the thin allium stems when they are about 10 inches tall! Sort of thins out the flowering! Also I get some pale mangled looking blooms from the munching. This was a good year. But no recent pictures! I find that allium unifolium is the worst flopper. A good spot for it is near my irises. They bloom, go dormant quickly and the open airiness & lack of water seems to suit both iris and allium well. This might work with your shorter floppy ones....See MoreDrumstick allium (Allium sphaerocephalon)? Like it?
Comments (30)Many years ago I read a rather prejudicial statement by a gardening non-american who said that American Gardeners were like babies. If it wasn't big bright and shiny we couldn't appreciate it. Well, I disagree-WAH! The point is that some of the seed heads of Alliums are also attractive in their own right (as Cameron mentioned about Purple Sensation) if you have an eye for such things. For instance I've used the Drumstick Allium heads in dried arrangements with success. Also at a teaching garden I was attracted to a group of medium growing large flower heads that looked like an explosion of fireworks had just gone off. It turned out they were the seed heads of Allium Schubertii. They were planted in front of an evergreen shrub border with competition from nothing else "bright and shiny" to distract, and their unusual form took center stage. The guide said that they stayed like that for at least a month or so. I've never seen them in bloom, but had I a similar set up, I'd certainly try the same combination. Here is a link that might be useful: Allium Schubertii...See MoreDiscount - Interested in Globemaster Alliums ?
Comments (0)A Friend of mine contacted me because he knew I love Globemaster Alliums. He also knows the reason I dont have a large quantity of them is because they are Ridiculously over priced everywhere (about $10 a bulb). He apparently has found a way to get them for cheaper, but I would need to buy a significantly larger amount than I would be interested in buying. My question to you all is would any of you be interested in buying some of these for around $7 a bulb if I decide to make the investment. Depending on how many I buy, I may be able to give them away for $6 a bulb. Dont know how much I can spend up front just yet, and havent even begun to think about shipping yet. I just know that due to the LARGE size of the flowers on these Globemaster Allium's they are always priced at $10. Its kind of hard to pass this opportunity up. If I dont do it this fall I will do it for sure next fall. Any one interested?...See MoreWild Giant Allium?
Comments (4)Grocery store scallions I grew out ended up just like that: white globes about the same size on 4' stems. They started out the diameter of a pencil but have wintered over twice and each time got much thicker and a bit taller. There really is no way to know just exactly which variety you have or even whether culinary or decorative. It could even be the base of some picnicker's salad scallion discarded, and then rooted it self out. The leeks known as "elephant garlic" have also naturalized in quite a few places, they have flat leaves, if this has round hollow leaves that points to the onion side....See Moreken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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