These allium bulbs give pretty yellow star shaped flowers in June and July. They are the same family as your kitchen onions but don't be tempted to eat them or you will get a culinary shock. Plant ...

As autumn progresses, garden centers really want to move those familiar spring bulbs like tulips and daffodils. (They won’t keep till next year.) But there are a few compelling reasons gardeners, even ...

The crocuses disappear, the daffodils fade, the tulips peak, and then up pop the alliums: globes of flowers rising like blue and purple soap bubbles above the lush green foliage of late spring. “I ...

One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, peony, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia. Alliums, ...

Planting alliums gives you the same punch in the late-spring garden as using onions in cooking — all the elements of the dish will be more pungent and appealing. Flowering alliums are, indeed, part of ...

I adore alliums. You can also call them ornamental onions. But don't be put off. These are nothing like the tear-provoking kitchen onions. These produce magnificent flowers. I have many fond memories ...

No cook would want to be without the common onion, Allium cepa, an essential kitchen staple that figures in cuisines around the world. But not every onion is there to be sliced, chopped or diced — ...

My allium obsession began many years ago. The first time I spied an airy purple orb on a 3-foot sticklike stem — hovering magically over the rest of the garden — I was hooked. Today, my collection of ...

Alliums have risen again in my garden. Beautiful ‘Purple Sensation’. Gorgeous white ‘Mount Everest’. Weirdly wonderful Allium bulgaricum. And supersize Allium giganteums and others are still to come.

Discovering how long do alliums flower for can inform your choice of blooms and help you ensure you've got constant interest in your flower borders. For the majority of alliums, their flowering period ...

In the world of spring-blooming bulbs, alliums really are something special. Seemingly designed by Dr. Seuss, they’d be the truffula trees of the flower world if they weren’t so perfectly spherical.

My appreciation of a plant is based on two considerations – how it looks and how it performs from year to year. As the moniker Casual Gardener implies, I’m not the most attentive plantsman and at my ...