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Allium hollandicum (Dutch garlic)

Other names: Allium x hollandicum

A. hollandicum is a upright, bulbous perennial with strap-shaped, mid-green basal leaves, dying back during flowering, and erect stems bearing dense, rounded umbels of star-shaped, purple-pink flowers in summer.
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0.1m max. spread

1m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium schubertii (Schubert's allium)

A. schubertii is a clump-forming, bulbous perennial with strap-shaped, bright green leaves, dying back before flowering, and umbels of small, star-shaped, pink or purple flowers in early summer.
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0.1m max. spread

0.6m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium tuberosum (Chinese chives)

Other names: Garlic chives, Oriental garlic, Fragrant-flowered garlic

A. tuberosum is a vigorous, clump-forming, bulbous perennial with linear, keeled, edible, mid-green leaves and erect stems bearing umbels of fragrant, star-shaped, white flowers from summer into autumn.
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0.5m max. spread

0.5m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium cernuum (Lady's leek )

Other names: Nodding wild onion, Nodding onion, Wild onion

A. cernuum is a clump-forming, deciduous, bulbous perennial with narrowly strap-shaped, dark grey-green leaves and sturdy stems bearing pendent umbels of bell-shaped, pink flowers in summer.
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0.15m max. spread

0.5m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium caeruleum (Azure-flowered garlic)

Other names: Blue-flowered garlic, Allium azureum , Allium 'Azureum', Allium caeruleum azureum, Allium coerulescens, Blue of the heavens, Blue globe onion

A. caeruleum is a clump-forming, bulbous perennial with linear, grey-green leaves and erect stems bearing compact, dense, rounded clusters of blue flowers in early summer.
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0.1m max. spread

1m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium siculum (Mediterranean Bells)

A. siculum is a tall bulbous perennial with a crown of bell-shaped flowers that grow green on the outside with lilac-pink markings on the inside.
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0.1m max. spread

1m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium sativum (Garlic)

A. sativum forms long, narrow flat leaves, white flowers on a tall stalk and an edible, stongly scented bulb divided into bulbets or cloves, contained in a whitish skin.
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0.5m max. spread

0.5m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium cepa (Onion)

A. cepa is a bulbous perennial with strap-like green leaves cultivated as an edible vegetable.
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0.5m max. spread

0.5m max. height

1-2 years to maturity

Allium ursinum (Wild garlic)

Other names: Ramsons wild garlic

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

0.6m max. height

2-5 years to maturity