Over 6 Different Blooming Allium Species! (Garlic)

Over 6 different species of beautiful amazing allium (garlic) are now in full bloom or setting seeds in the flower heads!

Alliums repel bugs out of vegetable gardens. cabbage worms carrot flies aphids slugs

Bring your favorite garlic variety to trade!

I am transplanting hundreds of allium mother bulbs right now.

The tools are available to dig your own complete mother plant, starting and ready to bloom, then divide in late summer when the leaves wither!

I have them throughout the entire 2 lots of my property.

Only $1 per huge flowering mother bulb.

Also available: $.05 each per seed produced by each bloom and $.25 ea for division bulbs attached to mother bulbs.

This is well over a $15 value per mother bulb with attachments!

Allium is a genus of flowering plants with hundreds of species, including garlic, onion, scallion, shallot, leek, and chives.

Allium is the latin word for garlic.

Allium reduces high blood cholesterol and high blood pressure.

It may also be used topically (applied to the skin).

Allium bulbs have a garlic odor and are typically made up of 5 or many more cloves.

They are also great for cooking whenever garlic or onions are specified in a recipe.

You can add the flowering scapes to salads and dishes to highlight your cooking style!

They make amazing flavorful garlic bread with purple flowers inside!

Alliums are important as ornamental plants.

Alliums are a bulb-forming perennial with some scapes over 4 feet tall.

They have long, flat, strap-shaped leaves up to 24inches long.

Umbels are spherical, up to 4 inches in diameter, composed of many purple star-shaped flowers appearing in late spring.

The popular cultivar ‘purple sensation’ has gained the royal horticultural society’s award of garden merit.

It prefers moist, fertile soil in full sun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I want to put in a word for the alliums since it is allium season in my garden.

Alliums, like most spring blooming bulbs, get planted in the fall, but now is a good time to start thinking about adding some of these bulbs to your garden.

You can plant alliums that bloom at different times throughout the season, but my favorites are all of the spring-blooming ones which look like purple lollipops like: Allium Christophii Purple Sensation His Excellency Globemaster Gladiator Graceful

Alliums are garlics and are relatives of the onions you and I eat.

They bloom from April ~ June, reach a height of up to 50 inches tall and are very affordable when you buy or trade them from my garden!

In my garden they’re an important nectar and pollen source in early spring for native and european honeybees among other pollinators.

If you can bring yourself to cut them they also make excellent flowers for bouquets and dried floral arrangements.

I don’t see many deer on the west side of salt lake city, but if your garden is plagued by deer that see it as a salad bar, alliums should survive grazing because they don’t like the taste of onion.

I suspect the reason that my tulips, crocus and hyacinths aren’t eaten to the ground (or dug up) by other animals is because I have so many alliums planted among them.

Alliums feature captivating 3-5 wide lilac-purple flowerheads atop graceful 12-50 stems.

Blooming in April, May & June, alliums are carefree, rewarding and make excellent cut flowers.

Adaptable to various soils and quick to naturalize, each purple allium brings recurring beauty while also being deer resistant.

• hardiness zones 3-8\
• mature height 12 - 50 inches\
• bloom time late spring (may) \
• light requirements full sun\
• attracts pollinators\
• deer resistant\
• cut flower

Here you can pick out the blooming head of the allium plant you want, dig up the bulb and take it and the seed head home to grow, bloom and produce thousands of new allium plants!

Ideally, wait until it’s cold outside to plant, with a soil temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit or lower.