On 2013-07-17 17:46:51 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme said:

On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:17:08 +0100, Sacha wrote:

We've just been out to lunch with friends and atour of their beautiful
garden. They have lots of theese Allium about the place and it's a new
one to me, so just in case some urglers don't know it, I thought I'd
pass it on. It's flowering now and looks lovely and airy, swaying
gently in a breeze. Its other great bonus - to me - is that it seeds
itself around quite happily.

They grew like weeds in the front garden in my previous house. When I
moved house last year I tried to transplant a few. They all died.
Perhaps I would do better using seeds.

Steve

Answering you and Spider together, all I can tell you is that their
ground is extremely dry at present - surprise! - and they aren't
watering anything that isn't in pots. They're a couple of villages
away from us and more towards Newton Abbot side than we are, so I don't
know how the soil differs but I don't think their garden is as moisture
retentive as ours is for the most part. Perhaps - given our fairly wet
garden - we'll need to plant these somewhere that is very free draining.
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Sacha
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South Devon
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