Allium sphaerocephalon
 

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.
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South Devon
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Allium sphaerocephalon
 

On 17/07/2013 17:17, 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.




I tried to grow it once, but failed miserably, yet I succeed with
Alliums Christophii and 'Purple Sensation'. I've had a lovely show this
year. Clearly, I'll have to try A. sphaerocephalon again. Thanks for
the tip.

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from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

Allium sphaerocephalon
 

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

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Allium sphaerocephalon
 

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.
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

Allium sphaerocephalon
 

Spider wrote:

On 17/07/2013 17:17, 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.

I tried to grow it once, but failed miserably, yet I succeed with
Alliums Christophii and 'Purple Sensation'. I've had a lovely show this
year. Clearly, I'll have to try A. sphaerocephalon again. Thanks for
the tip.

They are all lovely plants, and I have had moderate success with
them.

I followed a Carol Klein suggestion to plant sphaerocephalon with
Eryngium bourgatii 'Picos Blue', and right now they are an
excellent combination, the blue of the Eryngium is wonderful.

As I said a week or two ago, either I blundered, or last autumn's
Gardeners' World special offer alliums must have got their packet
labeling wrong.

Whatever, the low-growing a. ostrowskianum, and more stately a.
sphaerocephalon (1) have been planted in each others intended
locations. I will probably try to move the sphaerocephalon after
flowering.

In previous years I have left the seed heads on Christophii and
Gigantium for a long time. It was suggested to my by a supplier
that they would retain their vigour if I dead-headed sooner,
though it seems a shame.

(1) Not the ones round the Eryngium.

Chris
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