Allium 2014

[TheOnionMan]

To kick-off the new oniony year, I'm posting Janis Ruksan's online Rare Bulbs Catalog link that starts with Allium; there are more great Allium here than you can shake a stick at... inducing great plant-lust torment.
http://rarebulbs.lv/index.php/en/catalogue

[Mark Griffiths]

hmm, I was looking through and now I can't get the page up, I get "Database connection error (2): Could not connect to MySQL."

[TheOnionMan]

The link is still working for me, maybe it was down temporarily.

[wmel]

We didn't had any winter this year, only a few days with a little frost in the nights.
allium seeds are coming out very good!

[ArnoldT]

Don't feel left out we had enough winter for you.  Expecting 6-12inches of snow tonight.

The fields give hope that spring in on the way.

[wmel]

Some pictures from last weekend. We had very nice weather last week!
spring is very early this year...3 weeks earlier than last year.

[wmel]

some photo's from yesterday.....

[Maggi Young]

So much growth already!

[wmel]

We had some very nice weather, and more is comming, next week expected temperatuur is 19oC!.
First allium is already flowering, as always allium paradoxum var normale is the first and allium zebdanense is comming soon....

[Margaret]

I have a clump of Allium paradoxum var normale which is very pretty but looks as if it might be invasive.  Should it be in a pot?

[wmel]

I have a clump of Allium paradoxum var normale which is very pretty but looks as if it might be invasive.  Should it be in a pot?

Is it paradoxum with only flowers or are there also little bulb in the flowerhaed??
If there are only flowers, it will be no problem, but the one with bulbs is very invasive.
The true paradoxum van normale does not have any bulbs in the flower!

[Margaret]

Thank you, Wietse. I think I'm safe - no bulbs in the flower.

[wmel]

Thank you, Wietse. I think I'm safe - no bulbs in the flower.

Yes, you have the real one , var normale.
It wil be no problem in your garden, but it can give some seeds.
If you want to be sure there will be no new bulbs from this, you can easy remove them before they fall on the ground.

[wmel]

After a week of "summer" a lot has changed!

[wmel]

and some more.......