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Old 11-08-2013, 05:39 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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"Victoria Conlan" wrote

Pam Moore wrote:
I've never grown alliums but have decided to try a few next year.
What are your favourite varieties for reliability and longest
flowering?


Personally, I'm very fond of the giant flowers you get on leeks that
have gone to seed. :-)
(And the bees love them)

Make good cut flowers too, you just do what the florists do an out a
teaspoon of bleach in the water to kill the leak smell.
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
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