Allium

"missing species"

Species listed in our main printed list but not found below, have already sold out.

Allium acutiflorum

A slender plant reaching some 30-40cm producing a dense umbel of narrowly bell-shaped, pale purplish-pink flowers (fairly big for a small Allium). From the Alpes-Maritimes of Southern France.

Easily grown outside through most of Europe in a sunny spot.

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Allium akaka

It seems to be only every few years that we are able to offer this striking Asian species.

It makes just two decorative, grey-green, flat oval leaves in a pair, close to the ground. From between these rises a short stem topped by a large hemispherical head of reddish-purple flowers.

Slow from seed, sparing with its offsets but easily grown and good in a pot as well as a sunny, well-drained spot outside.

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Allium alexeianum

A central Asian species named by Regel as long ago as 1875 from Turkmenistan where it was said to have been found at between 3,000 and 11,000 feet altitude. It is now known to range throughout the Pamir mountain systems.

This has attractive, long, ovate blue-green leaves margined with red springing from small, white-coated bulbs. The flower stems are short, seldom more than 7-10cm tall in good light and carry an inverted conical to rounded umbel of broadly funnel-shaped, bright red-pink flowers which are held on stiff, bright red-purple pedicels of unequal length.

A decorative little species, perfect in a pot or under alpine glass though it is happy also outside, as long as provided with a fertile, loam-based soil, good drainage and a dryish summer rest.

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Allium amethystinum

Deep reddish-purple flowers tightly packed into spherical umbels which are carried on tall and slender stems.

A sunny spot in rich soil suits this eastern Mediterranean species well in the garden.

Allium bisceptrum

Stems from just 10-15 cm tall bear attractive, dense-flowered umbels of bright pink flowers in summer. Each flower is quite large and stiffly star-shaped.

Useful in a well drained, sunny spot in the garden especially so as this has just 2-3 slender leaves, even when mature. Dry during dormancy.

Seed originally from Lyon Co., Nevada.

Allium caesium

This makes a thin, elegant 50cm stem bearing a dense, 7cm ball, in which the flowers are held on unequal pedicels.

The blooms are an intense bright flax-blue, a rare colour in the genus (sharing this colour with A. caeruleum and A. lipschitzii, but distinct from both).

It flowers in August, and for a long time. This very garden-worthy species attracts a lot of attention.

Allium caesium (aff)

A new plant for us introduced in 2006, but as yet not 100% identified. At the 'worst' it will be a superb, strong form of caesium, hence our tentative name.

It makes a good sized, well-packed ball-head of superb, deep but bright, blue flowers on a 40cm tall stem in June.

Originally found in Afghanistan, hence our knowledge is scanty, but a superb garden plant. Readily grown in a well-drained, sunny loam, dry in the summer when it is dormant.

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Allium caesium Aquamarine

A selected form released in 2007 and one in which the normal blue flower colour is infused with green to yield something like a pale turquoise colouration edged in blue.

Though the exact colour sháde evades precise description, it is very lovely and not like any other Allium that I have seen.

Sunny well drained soil.

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Allium caesium Summer Sky

This clone is the brightest and the most compact of all of our forms, never exceeding 25cm and with an unequalled brightness of shade.

The mother stock was found in the mountains of Uzbekistan near Schachimardan. New for 2010, never offered anywhere before.

Allium callimischon callimischon

Valuable for its autumn-flowering.

Small bulbs and thread-like leaves which die away in summer leaving a thin stem which contains the flower buds. These open in September to dense clusters of white, unspotted bells with a hint of violet. N. Greece, 30cm.

Allium chloranthum

This looks a little like Allium flavum but it has far more flowers in each umbel than that species and, in addition, as the name might suggest, the flowers have an intense green infusion or colouring.

It has a pleasing garden habit and is happy outside in a well drained, sunny site and valuable for its late summer flowers which appear when many other species have finished.

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Allium darwasicum yellow form

A wonderful greenish-yellow form collected by Arnis Seisums in the very south of Tadjikistan (Darvas range, near the village of Iol). It fits perfectly into the description of darwasicum except for the unique flower colour, of pale yellow. Stems 30-40cm tall with tight umbels of numerous narrowly cup-shaped flowers.

This species dislikes any moisture after the end of flowering. It comes true from seed (of isolated plants), with only slight shade variation.

Allium diabloense

A member of the taxonomically complicated, fimbriatum alliance (all having few tubular leaves).

The stems are 10-12cm tall with a lax, but impressive, umbel of broad-petalled, white to pale-pink flowers having conspicuous pink-purple mid-veins. A very decorative and distinctive plant. This came as seed from San Benito Mountains in California.

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Allium dichlamydeum

Broad, thick petals of deep, bright pink, sometimes tending to an almost magenta intensity, at others times to a subtle pink.

It blooms from April onwards to June and is one of the most valuable of all of the USA species. After flowering the stems dry and retain much of their colour if dried. The flat leaves are unobtrusive.

Sunny gritty spot outside is fine, increase is gentle but reliable.