Allium 2011

[Lvandelft]

Welkom Wietse!

Last week we looked on a lot of pages about allium and saw very much photos of very beautiful alliums we never have seen before, We read a lot of comments an I think there is much to learn about allium for me here…….
Wietse Mellema

I am glad that you did take a look at these pages, after I told you about the Forum 

[Lesley Cox]

Hello Wietse, A warm welcome to the Forum. You'll find much of interest and enjoyment here, and many Dutch members as well.

I like the name of your Allium 'Hairy Friend.' Several of my friends could go by the same name.

[TheOnionMan]

Hello Wietse.  I'm very interested in learning more about your hybrids and selections.  You have posted lots of allium photos on your web site, which I have looked through. I am growing or have grown many plants under the same name; I'll contact you in a few days to a week by personal message to compare some notes.

[wmel]

Hello,

Hello Wietse.  I'm very interested in learning more about your hybrids and selections.  You have posted lots of allium photos on your web site, which I have looked through. I am growing or have grown many plants under the same name; I'll contact you in a few days to a week by personal message to compare some notes.

I'm very much interested, I will wait for your mail, and in the mean time I post some photos made today. The box on the first picture is a mix of 12 varietys for sale on a marked, The other two are just pictures of our alliums today.

Thank you for your welkom L van Delft and Lesley Cox!

[Maggi Young]

What a great colour and form range in those cut blooms. They look really good en masse like that.

Are you having to water a lot just now, Wietse? We have had a lot of hot and windy weather which is drying the plants very fast.

[wmel]

What a great colour and form range in those cut blooms. They look really good en masse like that.

Are you having to water a lot just now, Wietse? We have had a lot of hot and windy weather which is drying the plants very fast.

Goodmorning,

It has been very dry here for the last 2 months, We are now watering out tulips (and allium) fot the eighth time.
Normaly we get about 60 mm rain a month, but now we only had about 25 mm in 2 months.
It is not very hot here, and that is good for the bulbs, but a little more natural rain would be very welkom!

[Magnar]

A new species, Allium semenowii, floweing here for the first time this year.

[wmel]

A new species, Allium semenowii, floweing here for the rist time this year.

That is a real beauty, very nice colour!
How high is this species growing?
I also looked on your web site, and I saw you are looking for some allium (seeds) or plants perhaps???
is there already seed from Allium semenowii, or plants??

[TheOnionMan]

A new species, Allium semenowii, floweing here for the rist time this year.

Very nice Magnar, a species I have always wanted to grow!  Allium semenovii is on Chris Chadwell's prospectus for his upcoming 2011 seed collecting expedition; I hope to secure seed of this rare and unusual beauty.

[TheOnionMan]

That is a real beauty, very nice colour!
How high is this species growing?
I also looked on your web site, and I saw you are looking for some allium (seeds) or plants perhaps???
is there already seed from Allium semenowii, or plants??

Wietse, fantastic seeing the fields of Alliums rowed out.  What's the tall very dark color Allium in your 013.jpg?  Is it the hybrid with atropurpureum?  On your own web site, I'm totally smitten with the mass plantings of Allium caesium forms!!!

Allium semenovii:
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027530

A couple miscellaneous Allium photos, a couple views of A. scorzonerifolium (the type species has a few bulbils in the inflorescence), the gray leaves in the background are A. senescens v. glaucum 'Blue Eddy'.  Then a photo of a chive bloom with dragonfly.

[wmel]

Wietse, fantastic seeing the fields of Alliums rowed out.  What's the tall very dark color Allium in your 013.jpg?  Is it the hybrid with atropurpureum?  On your own web site, I'm totally smitten with the mass plantings of Allium caesium forms!!!

Yes, It is a crossing of allium christopii x allium atropurpureum we made.
It's a very good increasing allium (7-10 ofsets)
I post some more pictures.........

[wmel]

Just one more picture of the "garden" today.....

[Stephenb]

Wietse: Welcome from me too!  A friend in Belgium told me about your fantastic collection of Alliums a couple of years ago and I had intended to get in touch if I was in the Netherlands, but I haven’t been since… Thanks for all the pictures and I’ll be having a  proper look at your web site soon!

Magnar: Superb Allium! Please add me to the waiting list…only equalled by Mark’s unusual looking A. scorzonerifolium…very nice!!

[Magnar]

Wmel and Stephen, I sure will be looking for seeds of A. semenovii. Will keep you on mind if I find any.

[Magnar]

Another Allium today : A. paradoxum var normale. It came from Ruksans.