How to Make Allium Flowers Using Golf Balls and Nails

Allium Flower Care and Growing Tips

In early spring lots of allium species are bursting out of the ground. Here we collect the clone-onion-ball tops of the Allium paradoxum (aka Wunder-lauch or Berliner Bärlauch or Few Flowered Leek). Why a paradox you ask?! Well, this allium doesn’t seed but rather clones itself. Every single plants’ DNA is the exact same as the other. It originates from the Caucasus region and has successfully burst out of the Berlin botanical garden and spread over the city. It is considered invasive, so don't

Planting Alliums Join Andrew as he plants some allium bulbs amongst the perennials in the new flower bed. 'Some of the most interesting and pleasing plant combinations are achieved with bold, architectural bulbs like alliums mixed with grasses or other more wispy shapes. I love bulbs as, in the case of tulips or daffodils, they are the first to come up in a dull garden and always look amazing. Areas of muted winter colours are suddenly transformed with vivid pinks, purples and oranges as your be

Allium bulbs add so much interest to a garden! They should be planted in fall between late September and November, but essentially before the soil freezes. They are very low maintenance & don’t require much at all other than the bulbs being split every few years because they do multiply underground. When they multiply they should be split otherwise they grow on top of each other and don’t get nearly as big as they can/should. We plant Mount Everest White Allium and it gets about 5 ft tall with a

How to Plant and Grow Allium