One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, peony, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia. Alliums, ...

Fall bulb catalogs are sweetened with alluring eye candy, including those lollipop-shaped alliums. Their large, globed flower heads consist of petite star-like blossoms that shoot from stems rising 2 ...

BOISE, Idaho — Do you like the savory flavor of onion and garlic in your food? Most people do, but did you know they are all part of the same plant family? They are known as alliums and they are east ...

Alliums have risen again in my garden. Beautiful ‘Purple Sensation’. Gorgeous white ‘Mount Everest’. Weirdly wonderful Allium bulgaricum. And supersize Allium giganteums and others are still to come.

Alliums are the ornamental relatives of garlic. This year, with lots of rain and cool temperatures, they sprouted early and went to bloom outrageously creating glorious garden pictures. And, since ...

Beautiful and sturdy with a flair for the dramatic, alliums are a graceful way to add color and architectural dimension to your garden. With large globes of tiny white, purple, yellow or blue flowers ...

As autumn progresses, garden centers really want to move those familiar spring bulbs like tulips and daffodils. (They won’t keep till next year.) But there are a few compelling reasons gardeners, even ...

Way back when, I planted a collection featuring red “Paprika” yarrow and blue- and white-blooming allium bulbs (A. caeruleum and “Mount Everest”). Called “Firecrackers” something-or-other, it was a ...

My appreciation of a plant is based on two considerations – how it looks and how it performs from year to year. As the moniker Casual Gardener implies, I’m not the most attentive plantsman and at my ...

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