Bulbs: Dead allium leaves, with beautiful flowers??, 1 by emilyrasmus

emilyrasmus wrote:
Oh! So that's what happened with mine. I saw the brown leaves on my purple alliums and thought I had done something really wrong, such as overfertilized or too much iron-phosphate slug bait.

Are these reliably perennial? I'm in zone 8b and here in the pacific northwest we get a lot of rain fall, winter, and spring (raining out there and has been for 5 weeks now). My worry is rot. I've amended my soil, but it still has a heavy clay base.

Here's a pic of one of my alliums, not sure which kind.