Alliums (ornamental onions) are versatile, yet underused, bulbs for the sunny border. They’re incredibly easy to grow, hardy as a rock, disdained by deer and rodents, have few if any insect pests and ...
During my years as executive director of the Columbus Botanical Garden in Georgia, I fell madly in love with the garlic chives in our herb garden. I’m not an herbalist or a culinary artist in the ...
Mention the word alliums and many of us will instantly think of the many different edible members of the onion family, from chives (Allium schoenoprasum), leeks (Allium ampeloprasum) and garlic ...
Every spring, I'm always a bit surprised by the ornamental onions that pop up amid the oakleaf hydrangea in the front garden. For weeks, I'm under the spell of daffodils, tulips, Virginia bluebells, ...
Q: I have trouble growing alliums in Atlanta. If they come up, then they don’t come back the next year. Am I planting the wrong varieties ?Lynda Houser, email Q: Our blueberry bushes are 10 years old.
* What it is: This winter-hardy onion plant is grown as an ornamental for its gorgeous and long-lasting walnut-sized round flowers of pinkish-purple that bloom in July and August - and sometimes ...
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Serendipity is the perfect name for a fairly new ornamental onion or Allium. Let me explain. Millenium, a great new ornamental onion was chosen in 2018 as the Perennial Plant of the Year. I didn’t try ...
Iris reticulata (or dwarf irises) are also some of the earliest flowers to open up in Spring - as early as February - and are ...
As winter sets in and the UK braces for a cold spell, many gardeners are left wondering what they can plant at this time of ...