Search Results for "Alliums"

Allium 'Globemaster' (Allium 'Globemaster')

Other names: Ornamental onion 'Globemaster'

'Globemaster' is vigorous, clump-forming, bulbous perennial with strap-shaped, grey-green leaves and large, spherical clusters of star-shaped, deep violet flowers in summer.
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0.2m max. spread

0.8m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium macleanii (Ornamental onion)

Other names: Allium elatum

A. macleanii is a clump-forming, bulbous perennial with ridged stems, broadly strap-shaped, glossy, mid-green leaves and a sturdy, erect stem bearing a spherical umbel of small, star-shaped, purple to purple-pink flowers in late spring and early summer.
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0.2m max. spread

1m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium 'Guardsman' (Salad onion 'Guardsman')

Other names: Spring onion 'Guardsman'

'Guardsman' is a perennial grown as an edible vegetable with stiff, straight, hollow green leaves and white onions that can be harvested from late spring until autumn.
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0.3m max. spread

0.4m max. height

1-2 years to maturity

Allium neapolitanum (Neapolitan garlic)

Other names: Naples garlic, Flowering onion, Allium candissimum, Nothoscordum inodorum, Allium sieberianum, Allium album, Allium lacteum, Allium sulcatum, Daffodil garlic, False garlic, Guernsey star-of-Bethlehem, Naples onion, White garlic, Wood garlic

A. neapolitanum is a compact, clump-forming, short-lived, deciduous perennial with narrowly strap-shaped, mid-green leaves and umbels of star-shaped, white flowers in late spring and early summer.
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0.1m max. spread

0.4m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium oschaninii (French grey shallot)

Other names: Griselle, French gray shallot, Eschalote grise

A. oschaninii is a bulbous perennial cultivated as a vegetable with upright, strap-like, blue-green leaves and, ready for harvest from summer into autumn, small, slender, edible, purple-flushed, white bulbs encased in pale brown-grey skins.
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0.2m max. spread

0.4m max. height

1-2 years to maturity

Allium lusitanicum (Portuguese allium)

Other names: Allium 'Summer Beauty', Ornamental onion 'Summer Beauty', Ornamental garlic 'Summer Beauty', Allium senescens subsp. montanum, Allium angulosum 'Summer Beauty', Allium lusitanicum 'Summer Beauty', Mountain garlic , Allium senescens 'Montana'

A. lusitanicum is an upright, clump-forming, bulbous perennial with strongly aromatic, linear, mid-green leaves and sturdy, hollow stems bearing dense, rounded umbels of purple-pink to pale pink flowers in summer
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0.3m max. spread

0.4m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium karataviense (Kara Tau garlic)

Other names: Turkistan onion

A. karataviense is a compact, bulbous perennial with pairs of elliptic, purple-flushed, grey-green leaves and sturdy stems bearing spherical umbels of star-shaped, pale pink to pale purple flowers in late spring and early summer.
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0.3m max. spread

0.3m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium ursinum (Ramsons)

Other names: Allium ucrainicum, Wild leek, Wood garlic, Wild garlic, Ramsomes, Hog's garlic, Gipsy onion , Bear's garlic, Buckrams

A. ursinum is an edible, bulbous, perennial groundcover with linear, green leaves appearing in midwinter. It has white flowers in spring and then dies down in early summer.
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0.5m max. spread

0.5m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium tricoccum (Wild leek)

Other names: Wild garlic, Wood leek, Ramp, Ramps, Ramson, Aglitheis tricoccum, Ophioscorodon tricoccum, Validallium tricoccum

A. tricoccum is a clump-forming, deciduous, bulbous perennial with slender, ovoid, white, edible bulbs, edible, elliptic to strap-shaped, mid-green leaves, and an erect stem bearing an umbel of star-shaped, white flowers blooming in summer after the leaves have died. Flowers are followed by spherical, glossy, black seeds.
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0.3m max. spread

0.3m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium cepa 'Red Baron' (Onion 'Red Baron')

'Red Baron' is a bulbous perennial with strap-like green leaves cultivated as an edible vegetable. This is a mid-late maturing variety with deep red flesh.
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0.5m max. spread

0.5m max. height

1-2 years to maturity