Re: allium -Reply

I would be very interested in rec
information on the cost of your alliums.

Sandy Boyette

Meum71@aol.com wrote:
> 
> I have grown and ofered for sale at least 25 different alliums. It;s a nice
> group of plants.
> For me in Minnesota in my zone 4 garden, I have made a few observations.
> 1) Many of the alliums come up early in the spring and freeze in a late frost,
> this leads to foliage that rots down into the bulbs. Like many bulbs alliums
> will grow roots and send up some stems when the soil is just below freezing.
> 
> 2) Alliums as a rule -- but there are exceptions -- need well drained soils
> that are dry in the summer. So mixing in a good amount of sand around them
> helps.
> 
> I Carry only a few alliums every year. Those Include.
> ALLIUM senescens SP. mountanum 'Glaucum' -- (a-lee-um) ALLIACEAE.This is a
> vigorous growing bulbous plant
>   with attractively twisted blue-gray green leaves. Plants grow about 6" tall
> and have bright pink , globe shaped flowers in mid to late summer,
>   just above the foilage. Plant in a sandy well draining soil in full sun.
> Plants grow in to nice thick clumps.  Divide as the center of the clumps
>        begin to thin out.  Another nice plant for the rock garden or for that
> hard to grow sunny spot were you want something short.
>                                          Zones (4)5-9.
> 
> ALLIUM tricoccum -- "Wild Leek" (a-lee-um) ALLIACEAE.  A onion for the shade
> garden. Native to the woods of northern
>  USA.  Plants have two or three broad leaves that are held out horizontally
> and have a bluish-green color to them.  Plants bloom after the leaves
>   go dormant in mid summer with whitish colored flowers followed by black
> shiny seeds in late summer -- fall. Plants grow into large groups by
>  self sowing.  Plants are nice in the woodland garden with large broad leaves
> showing up early in the spring.  bulbs are white and edible.
> 
> And my favorite garden Allium Allium tanguticum -- great for cutting and for
> the border with long twisted leaves that look good all season lone and 2-3"
> wide flower umbels.
> flowers are a soft purple and bloom in late spring to mid summer. Plants look
> good in the perennial border-It doe not go dormant in the summer.
> 
> Other plants I like are:
> Allium karativiense with two or three large broad flat leaves with a base ball
> sized "flower" just above the leaves. This plant only grows about 5 inches
> tall and should be used in the rock garden. It generates a lot of interest
> when I offer them.
> 
> I have a preference for the smaller species instead of the large flowered
> ones.
> A. molly with golden yellow flowers. The form 'Jeannine' has two flowers
> coming from the base instead on one.
> 
> A. ostrowskianum with Carmen-pink flowers growing 6-8" tall.
> 
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