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Allium Christophii with Paeony Rose Sarah Bernhart


Allium Christophii with Paeony Rose Sarah Bernhart (Allium albopilosum "Christophii")

This is an allium flower giant. It dwarfs the 5/6" paeony flower.



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Love that seed head, amazing.

27 Nov, 2011

 

Thank you, me too.

27 Nov, 2011

 

Surely these are not flowering at the moment??!!

27 Nov, 2011

 

I wish Sheilar. No I'm uploading photos taken over the year. Sorry they are not in season but I do not have photos of everything I originally uploaded in my garden and as I was sorting out My Pictures I thought I would add these to the garden here, but of course if you upload any photos to your garden they are automatically reproduced here in Photos too. It is very cold, wet and windy today so I'm glad of the sunny memories that generated these lovely flowers.

27 Nov, 2011

 

Aye I've sussed that now by your other photos - I must've looked at them in reverse order - oops! lol

27 Nov, 2011

 

I do that too. This head eventually opened so that it was bigger than a football. It was amazing.

27 Nov, 2011

 

It's a tough call Scotsgran, I think I like the seed head more than the flower...Just. Though I have not seen these Giants in the flesh yet,

27 Nov, 2011

 

The lilac colour is the individual flowers and the whole head looks light and airy. I did not do it but it is possible to dry the seed heads of any allium, once the petals fall, for use in flower arrangements. It is not a very tall plant at 24". It means you have a huge head on a visible stem only 18" high which does not lift it above surrounding plants.

27 Nov, 2011

 

They dry easily.

27 Nov, 2011



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