Re: Alliums

I can't answer this from an expert viewpoint, but will share what I've seen in
my garden.  I planted allium multibulbosum (now called a. nigrum) one fall and
the next spring had ten flowers, one for each bulb.  The following year I had
only a few blooms, so I dug them up in the summer to see what was going on.
What I found was, instead of ten large bulbs, there were a zillion bulbs of
assorted sizes, mostly small.   Gee, I thought, that's why they call it
multibulbosum, I guess!  So I replanted the largest and removed the others.
I've been too lazy to dig them up in subsequent years, so I never know how
many blooms I'm going to get.  Plenty of leaves, though.  Since then, I've
noticed this phenomenon with other smaller alliums:  fewer than the initial
number of flowers and a definite grassy look.  I've just let them go, hoping
they'll get to blooming size soon.  I don't know if this is what's happening
to yours, but I wouldn't be surprised.  I don't know if there's any way to
prevent it.
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