Search Results for "Alliums"

Allium senescens (German garlic)

Other names: Broadleaf chives, Mountain garlic, Spiral onion, Curley chives, Curly chives, Mountain leek, Corkscrew onion, Ornamental onion

A. senescens is a vigorous, clump-forming, bulbous perennial with strap-shaped, mid-green leaves and erect stems bearing dense umbels of cup-shaped, purple-pink flowers in summer.
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0.2m max. spread

0.6m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium wallichii (Wallich's garlic)

Other names: Himalayan onion

A. wallichii is an upright, bulbous perennial with linear, keeled, mid-green basal leaves, stem-clasping leaves, and erect stems bearing loose umbels of star-shaped, purple to purple-pink flowers in late summer and early autumn.
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0.1m max. spread

0.5m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium 'Carlito' (Allium 'Carlito')

'Carlito' is a bulbous perennial with glossy, strap-shaped, mid-green basal leaves and, from late spring into summer, sturdy, erect stems bearing large, dense, rounded umbels of silvery, light purple, star-shaped flowers.
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0.3m max. spread

0.75m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium 'Forelock' (Allium 'Forelock')

'Forelock' is a bulbous perennial with glossy, strap-shaped, mid-green basal leaves and from late spring into summer, sturdy, erect stems bearing conical, unusually tufted umbels of maroon flowers.
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0.3m max. spread

0.75m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium 'Stratos' (Allium 'Stratos')

Other names: Giant allium 'Stratos'

'Stratos' is a bulbous perennial with glossy, strap-shaped, bright green basal leaves and, from late spring into summer, sturdy, erect stems bearing dense, rounded umbels of purple flowers.
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0.4m max. spread

1.2m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium sikkimense (Sikkim onion)

Other names: Blue-flowered allium, Allium kansuense, Allium tibeticum

A. sikkimense is a bulbous perennial with linear, mid-green leaves, and nodding umbels of small, bell-shaped, blue, sometimes white, flowers in early summer.
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0.1m max. spread

0.25m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium 'Mars' (Allium 'Mars')

'Mars' is a bulbous perennial with strap-shaped leaves and spherical heads of reddish-purple flowers on tall upright stems in early summer.
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0.2m max. spread

1.2m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium giganteum (Giant allium)

A. giganteum has spreading, strap-shaped basal leaves which die down before the flowers, and tall stems bearing round umbels of bright purple flowers in summer.
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0.5m max. spread

1.5m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium 'Firmament' (Allium 'Firmament')

'Firmament' is a bulbous perennial, with strap-shaped, grey-green leaves. Star-shaped, deep-purple flowers are borne in spherical heads in early summer which are followed by attractive seed-heads.
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0.75m max. spread

0.75m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium cristophii (Star of persia)

Other names: Allium christophii, Allium albopilosum

A. cristophii is a deciduous, bulbous perennial, with strap-shaped, grey-green leaves dying back at flowering and, in early summer, spherical heads of star-shaped, purple-pink flowers followed by showy seed-heads.
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0.6m max. spread

0.6m max. height

2-5 years to maturity