Allium 2009

[Onion]

Thank you for the fast reply Oron !
I knew the article Maggi mentioned! Can you recommend a book for you area about bulbous plants?
Or is it the same problem as you mentioned in the threat about the scilla you don't know.

[Rafa]

Thank you Oron!

I lost this year A. aschersonianum and A. tel-aviense, they are quite tender... fortunately I have some seedlings with the seeds you sent me.

[Oron Peri]

Thank you Oron!
I lost this year A. aschersonianum and A. tel-aviense, they are quite tender... fortunately I have some seedlings with the seeds you sent me.

Rafa, you should try to grow species from higher altitudes, such as the species from Mt. hermon.
A. libani for example grows above 1700m [up to 2800m] and is very hardy.

[Lesley Cox]

I really do like A. erdelii. Something quite different, and so much flower to so little leaf. Very nice.

[Rafa]

really beautiful one!

[Joakim B]

Nice plants.
There is a thread about edible plan that has a lot of allium and it may be of interest to You all.
There are also some questions on the identity of some that are presumed to come from the east ("maybe Russia") so there might be some with knowledge about that.
It is nice to see the opposite tender alliums and allium that can take -40C in the edible thread.

All the best
Joakim

[Oron Peri]

Two more species which became weeds in my garden and in my neighbore's too


 A. triquetrum
 A. trifoliatum var. sterile

[fermi de Sousa]

Two more species which became weeds in my garden and in my neighbore's too
 A. triquetrum
 A. trifoliatum var. sterile

Hi Oron,
A.triquerum is a major weed throughout south-eastern Australia!
An autumn flowering allium in flower here is A. tuberosum,


It can also seed itself around but has the advantage of being edible so weedings can be taken to the kitchen.
cheers
fermi

[Maggi Young]

It can also seed itself around but has the advantage of being edible so weedings can be taken to the kitchen.

Fine example of primary recycling! 

[Arda Takan]

 A.neopolinatum is my favouirte so far

[annew]

It can also seed itself around but has the advantage of being edible so weedings can be taken to the kitchen.
cheers
fermi

The flowers are tasty too.

[Oron Peri]

More Alliums in flower at the moment,

This A. schubertii is a football size.
A. ascersonianum is a semidesert species up to about 80cm
A. nigrum, one of the nicest species, growing in higher altitudes in the upper Galilee and the Golan Heights but is distributed trough all the East Mediterranean, having also different color forms.
A. rothii from the Negev desert.

[Gerdk]

Beautiful Allium nigrum - but it seems it shows this fine performance only in your country. Googled for it and found: (in cultivation) up to 80 cm!

Gerd

[Oron Peri]

Gerd
This form [white petals] has two populations,  a dwarf one up to 20cm, like the one in the photo and a much taller one up to about 80cm.
They grow in different areas in North Israel.
This dwarf form was included many years ago in the A. nigrum group, but personally I have doubt about it's real identity.

[tonyg]

Wonderful alliums Oron.  All with beautiful infloresences.  Do they all experience frost in the wild?  (ie can we attempt to grow them in our northern gardens?)