Bulbs: allium globemaster & problems, 1 by debi_z

debi_z wrote:
i had problems with my alliums the past two years. this year far more serious than last. you can see in the pictures below that the leaves die off, this happened before they had completely blossomed. so i just let them sit there because they had no way of gathering energy and they looked pretty in the garden bed. i'm having this problem in the full sun, part sun and less in the woodlands garden, which gets full sun in the spring months then dappled light from may on. they bloom here in mid may.
last years blooms were huge, this year the globemaster's bloom was about 3-4 inches the gladiators was about 5 inches wide. both much smaller, than they are suppose to be. i fertilize, the soil is good & well draining. i would like to grow these again, but don't want the same results. any help would be appreciated.