Allium 2013

[ebbie]

Thanks for the kind comments, Wietse, Mark and Poul. I am pleased that you like my pot of Allium callimischon var haemostictum.

[wmel]

After a period of rain , the planting of alliums has started.

[Onion]

Wietse, I see a lot of labels. Is it possible to say something about the different numbers of allium you grow?

[wmel]

Wietse, I see a lot of labels. Is it possible to say something about the different numbers of allium you grow?

If I only count all existing species, hybrids and varyties there will be around 400 at this moment. We also have a lot of sowings, crossings and selections, which all together results in about 1,000  labels I think.

[fermi de Sousa]

That's a lot of onions, Wietse!
It's good to know someone is promoting the growing of these wonderful bulbs.

Here are a couple more from our garden:
Allium peninsulare
Allium unifolium

cheers
fermi

[pontus]

Excellent allium peninsulae Fermi, a sp I have been trying to find for a long time. Please let me know if you ever get some spare seeds or bulbs of it

I have some allium seed of sp I could send you as a swap if thats ok with australian customs..

Pontus

[Mark Griffiths]

lovely colour on that Allium peninsulare, Fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

Thanks, pontus _ I've sent you a PM;
Mark, it's nice and vibrant - a couple of the other North American ones have that colour just on the petal tips;

Surprisingly, this is the first time that I've flowered the rather "common" Allium moly!
I think I like it
cheers
fermi

[Stephen Vella]

Fermi nice peninsulare...is there variation in the species...and how do you grow this one?

cheers

[wmel]

the first field is is planted, and also the "perennial" Alliums are all torn and replanted

[olegKon]

Breathtakingly neat looking field, Wietse. Nice to see it in a different season. Good luck with planting. Hope to show your Alliums flowering in my garden next year. Many of those you call plants or perennial alliums showed their growth. You see, we still do not have snow and + 10 C when we usually have about O is a pleasant bonus.

[Stephen Vella]

Wietse,

Do you generally wait for the first rains before you plant?... I guess you get a lot of rain...snow in your winter/spring?

We had a very dry winter/ spring here and the allium bulbs that didnt get water didnt do so well...you read that they are drought tollerate, to a degree, in summer ...I think im going to irrigate in winter/ spring

cheers
Stephen

[wmel]

Breathtakingly neat looking field, Wietse. Nice to see it in a different season. Good luck with planting. Hope to show your Alliums flowering in my garden next year. Many of those you call plants or perennial alliums showed their growth. You see, we still do not have snow and + 10 C when we usually have about O is a pleasant bonus.

Hello,

Nice to hear from you!
How are things in Moscow?
I'm very curious how the Alliums will survive the winter in Moscow, and hope to see some beautiful photos in spring next year!

[wmel]

Wietse,
Do you generally wait for the first rains before you plant?... I guess you get a lot of rain...snow in your winter/spring?
We had a very dry winter/ spring here and the allium bulbs that didnt get water didnt do so well...you read that they are drought tollerate, to a degree, in summer ...I think im going to irrigate in winter/ spring
cheers
Stephen

Hello,

In the Netherlands, we never have to wait long for rain. In the summer it is sometimes a few weeks dry, but autumn and winter are usually wet, and especially this fall I've been waiting for weeks to get some nice dry weather.
We still have about 7.5 hectares tulips to plant, and about 1 hectare seedlings of tulips and Alliums by hand, and for this we need at least a week of nice dry weather.
Unfortunately, it seems that is not comming soon.......

[Stephenb]

I posted the following question about a plant I got as Allium hirtifolium about 4 years ago but, in those days there was no Wietse and Onionman at hand, so I ask again now. Is this hirtifolium?
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3028.msg95152#msg95152