Allium 2014

[Yann]

Allium heldreichii MESE336

[TheOnionMan]

Sorry Yann, but the photo labeled as Allium carolinianum (note spelling) is not correct.  The true Allium carolinianum has closed bottle-like florets with stamens just squeezing through, not open florets as shown in your plant.  I do not know what your plant is, would need to learn more about the plant characteristics, foliage, spathe, bulbs, etc.  Here's a photo link showing a flower head on true Allium carolinianum:
https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/1558517_1433401643576323_5687501872821733892_n.jpg

[Yann]

Hi Mark i also had a doubt, i got bulbs under that name

check this url :http://www.botanicus.nu/bildarkiv/?c=allium&context=bild&p=598

[Yann]

I now remember the source of the bulbs: http://www.pcnijssen.nl/nl/home/127-Allium-carolinianum6.html

[TheOnionMan]

Hi Yann, the photo in the botanicis.nu web site looks correct, the photo on the  pcnijssen.nl site is wrongly identified.

[mark smyth]

Anyone know the name of the curly stemmed Allium that was shown on Chelsea last night?

[Maggi Young]

Anyone know the name of the curly stemmed Allium that was shown on Chelsea last night?

    It's the Serpent Garlic  - Allium sativum ophioscorodon

[mark smyth]

thanks Maggi

[Yann]

Mark : i've emailed Peter, waiting his anwer....

[pontus]

The fabulous allium Elegans from Kyrgystan bears its name well! the quite large (7-8 cm's across umbel) of light skye blue flowers has just begun opening here..almost looking like a small brunsvigia!

last year the flowerbud got munched off by a snail, so this year I quarantined teh pot on my balcony checking on it everyday for possible pests and diseases!..a long, but well worth whait to see it finally in bloom a year later!!

Pontus

[fermi de Sousa]

Very elegant indeed,
cheers
fermi

[olegKon]

The first allium from Wietse began flowering - Allium decipiens. & more have shown their buds. Thank you, Wietse.
And the old dwellers in my garden Allium umbilicatum and Allium bodeanum grown from seed of a single bulb I lost some years ago

[Maggi Young]

Excellent Oleg - so, it begins to feel like summer now ? 

[olegKon]

Absolutely, Maggi. Thank you. We have been hit here by heat since mid May with temperature records typical of July. And now it's time for alliums and ornithogallums.

[Maggi Young]

I hadn't realised this Allium event was happening at RHS Wisley until I saw this tweeted by Curator Colin Crosbie -

"Great range of Alliums on display @RHSWisley today  - Allium Study Day, plus unusual species with spiky hair and brolly! "



Wisley : onions on display with Matthew Pottage