One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, peony, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia. Alliums, ...

Planting alliums gives you the same punch in the late-spring garden as using onions in cooking — all the elements of the dish will be more pungent and appealing. Flowering alliums are, indeed, part of ...

The crocuses disappear, the daffodils fade, the tulips peak, and then up pop the alliums: globes of flowers rising like blue and purple soap bubbles above the lush green foliage of late spring. “I ...

As autumn progresses, garden centers really want to move those familiar spring bulbs like tulips and daffodils. (They won’t keep till next year.) But there are a few compelling reasons gardeners, even ...

Not all onions need to be relegated to the vegetable garden. Simple to grow in any sunny, well-drained spot, ornamental Alliums sport attractive, globe-shaped flowers and critter resistant foliage.

It's easy to appreciate why the large-flowered border allium has become such a popular plant. Cultivars such as Globemaster, Purple Sensation and Firmament are plants of great beauty, and almost ...

Alliums have risen again in my garden. Beautiful ‘Purple Sensation’. Gorgeous white ‘Mount Everest’. Weirdly wonderful Allium bulgaricum. And supersize Allium giganteums and others are still to come.

My appreciation of a plant is based on two considerations – how it looks and how it performs from year to year. As the moniker Casual Gardener implies, I’m not the most attentive plantsman and at my ...

The Perennial Plant Association hit pure gold by voting Allium Millennium the Perennial Plant of the Year for 2018. A hardy perennial to zone four, this allium is compact (12 to18 inches tall and wide ...