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Allium sphaerocephalon |
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| Common name |
drumstick allium |
| Family |
alliaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial bulb (Z4-9) |
| Flowers |
purple (early summer) |
| Size |
3' |
| Light |
sun |
| Cultural notes |
ordinary garden soil (tolerates summer drought) |
| Seed ripens | late September |
About as vertical a habit as you can get - the stalk goes straight up, with a dense globular flower cluster at the top. At 2" around, the blooms aren't as large as those of some other ornamental onions, but they have their own grace. The photos below show the flowers' progression through bloom
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following areas: the lane, sale plot Seed for this plant is included on my seed trade list About my plant portraits
Visitors to this page have left the following comments| anthony (sunta cruz,california) | Mar 20, 2006 | nice photos! |
| Madster | Jun 23, 2008 | Thank you for the beautiful photos and information. We have these plants coming up in our garden, and my husband is convinced they are weeds, but I like the tall stems, and so was able to convince him to leave them be until after they bloomed, which seemed to be taking forever. Now, in late June, they have the small, tightly packed, green, blossom heads, and the husband was even more convinced they were a weed, since only weeds have green, lackluster blooms...lol!
Now they have "safe passage," and I will transplant them in the fall to a designated area, to protect them in the future, but they are lovely randomly coming up in my garden.
Thanks again!
~M |
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