Alliums are a wide and varied group of plants which include garlic, leeks, chives, shallots and ornamental onions.

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     Alliums are fast becoming some of the most popular and exciting bulb additions to the early summer perennial border. However, the desirous gardener must plan ahead. The delightful combination of Drumstick Allium bobbing through yellow daylilies must be visualized in fall when Alliums are available to be planted. With a little pre-planning Alliums will never fail to bring attention wherever they are planted.

     Alliums are a wide and varied group of plants which include garlic, leeks, chives, shallots and ornamental onions. Most bloom from late spring to early summer, extending your bulb season past late May blooming tulips. They are not attractive to squirrels or other rodents so damage incurred by digging and removing of the bulb will be low. Alliums are not fussy about soil as long as it is not thoroughly wet all the time. Most are hardy to zone 4, but all love sun and after a few seasons will start to increase and spread on their own. Alliums mix well with hardy Geraniums, Artemesia and daylilies. By inter-planting them you can avoid unsightly foliage that might be nipped during late spring frosts. Enjoy them in the garden but be sure to cut some for arrangements inside as they are long lasting.

A. moly - Golden Garlic yellow, excellent naturalizers, tolerates some dry shade 11"
A. azureum - Blue Globe Onion steel blue, small bloom, 20-24"
A. cowanii - pure white, sweetly fragrant 10"
A. unifolium - light pink,upright to slightly nodding open blooms, 12"
A. album - greenish white, compact bloom, 10-12"
A. neapolitanum - Naples Onion white, loose umbel, lightly fragrant 24"
A. ostrowskianum - bright fuchsia with yellow centers, 10"
A. siculum - Bulgarian Onion nodding white with pinkish green throat, 24"
A. sphaerocephalon - Drumstick dark violet red, conical compact bloom, 24"
A. karataviense -Turkestan Onion whitish pink, superior iridescent foliage, 12"
A. christophii - Star of Persia huge silvery lavender blooms, 12-16"  across, 14"
A. aflat. ‘Purple Sensation’ - violet compact blooms, 4" across, 36"
A. giganteum - Giant Allium violet, compact blooms, 6" across, 44"
A.‘Globe Master’ - violet, dense blooms, 8-10" across, 36"