Growing Allium bulbs is not only easy, but they will provide great color after the early blooming spring bulbs are spent and before your perennials are ready to start blooming. With their unique blooms, they continue to offer interest in the garden even after losing their color. You can also add them to a dried flower arrangement. And bonus, hummingbirds are attracted to this beautiful bloom.
Allium ‘Gladiator’
- Alliums come in all different shapes and sizes.
- They will fit into almost any garden setting and provide much needed color between spring and summer flowers.
- Alliums have strappy, undistinguished leaves with straight tubular flower stalks.
- The flowers bloom as clusters and are best known for their round pom-pom form but they can be cup-shaped or semi-circular too.
- Alliums are sometimes called “ornamental onions” and will do best in full sun with well drained but moist soil.
- Animals don't care for their taste. Apparently, they don’t like onions!
Allium ‘Miami’
Planting
- Plant them in September or October.
- Depending on bulb type, plant them about 8”-10” deep.
- They grow best in zones 4-10.
- They will grow anywhere from 5-60” tall with a width of 3-12”.
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