Allium 2009

[PlantsnobIN]

Stevil, this pic is of a cultivar, I also have plain species growing.  Would you be interested in seed?

[Stephenb]

Yes, please - I'll send you a PM!

[ashley]

Thanks everyone for your comments.

Nice to see a real Alium thunbergii - have tried from seed from various sources but so far I've been unlucky and it's always been an early flowering impostor. If anyone has seed/bulbs of the real thing I'd be very grateful!

Ashley: I see you are growing it in a pot - does this mean it's not hardy with you?

Stephen, it's only in a pot because I didn't get around to planting it out yet .  It seems reasonably hardy though and came unscathed through last winter which was the coldest here for several years.  Previously I kept it under glass and perhaps too dry but find that it does better outdoors.

Good that you found a possible source because mine is clonal and has never set seed for me.  However send me a PM with your address if you'd like a bulb or two in due course.   

[Sinchets]

Flowering in the garden today
Allium callimischon ssp haemostictum

[Carlo]

Thanks Simon...I do LOVE that plant...

[Sinchets]

Thanks, Carlo. I hadn't realised just how much it loved being in the garden until this year.

[annew]

I didn't know either. It would be good to get it out of my greenhouse where the smell nearly knocks me out at flowering time (mothballs).

[Carlo]

In that case (mothballs) leave it IN the greenhouse...may help to repel rodent invaders...

[Carlo]

I must admit to lusting after this plant (Allium callimischon ssp haemostictum) for some time. Have tried seed twice--once wrong plant, second time no germination. Anyone in the US with spare bulbs or seed?

[Sinchets]

Are you not allowed bulbs or seeds from outside the US, Carlo?

[dominique]

The last allium here: A. thunbergii album

Ashley, it is so fine ! here, two forms of thunbergii, one of the wild sent me by a japanese friend and an other in its dwarf form

[fermi de Sousa]

Flowering in the garden today
Allium callimischon ssp haemostictum

That's a great looker, Simon!

This little Allium crispum is just starting and I hope I get a chance to get a better pic which shows the crinkly edge to the inner petals!


cheers
fermi

[Carlo]

Not disallowed, Simon, but permits, etc. are required and for such a small transaction it is inconvenient for the person on the other end--even though I have the necessary permits.

[Sinchets]

Carlo- that's a shame- I meant it when I said it was really happy here. It seems to be popping up everywhere from vole distributed bulbs.
Fermi, that's a little cutie. North American?

[fermi de Sousa]

Fermi, that's a little cutie. North American?

Hi Simon,
Yes, Allium crispum is in a group of similar looking onions from ? Western USA, I think.
Wanna trade seed?
cheers
fermi