Allium sphaerocephalon

I planted these last year Spritz yours are just ahead of mine

great photo

Thanks. I think they're great, don't you, Denise? :-)

I love them

They're kind of 'architectural' - the form is so different! I should plant some more in the autumn, I think.

I intend to plant more this year as they were lovely in the spring too.

I'd like some pink Alliums - I've seen them in the catalogue...so I'll be ordering those too. Can't think of their name....:-((((

Some Pink Alliums I would quite like are - Carolinianum with its wider leaves or Narcissiflorum with its drooping head or Ostrowskianum just 6" But mostly its the height of them I like.

One minute while I check......got them.......A. cernuum and A. uniflorum. I got A. ostrowskianum by mistake this year - not my mistake, Parkers sent them instead of Brodiaea. I like them, luckily!

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Put in 50 of these, they have been out for some time now, and doing really well, so pleased with them although they did take ages to colour up.

I find its quite nice waiting for them though as it makes them seem to last forever!

That's a big advantage, isn't it - as well as not getting smashed up by the wind! my 'Purple Sensation' were beautiful one day - the next, all the purple flowers had blown away!

Oh thats a shame Spritz mine stayed upright to the very last but they are in a sheltered position.

The 'skeletons' are still there - I leave them, do you?

Only till they gave way when pulled - about a month after flowering, but this is my first year with them should I have left them?

Yes - as long as you like the look of them, which I do! I pull them out when they go brown and 'give' in my hand to a light 'pull', just as you said.

Thanks I seem to have got it right.

:-) Of course you have! I would have been surprised if you hadn't!

he he thanks

xx