Remember the Allium!! Post your Pics Please!?

Allium insubricum - only about 5-6 inches but a delight

Allium cyathophorum

Allium sikkimensis

Galanthophile, those nodding varieties are particularly charming, and not varieties I see commonly offered here. Love 'em!

Thanks. I had to hunt them out believe me! I got them from specialist nurseries already in growth.

Very special blooms, lucky you to find them! I'm a blue lover too.

I love the late summer allium blooms. Often they are overlooked for the flashier spring bloomers, but they can add so much to a garden.

Just today this email message about allium came from WFF.

http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/images/wff1-7-18-06for6F730.htm?utm_source=2536MB&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2006+07+18

A rather flashy combination, but might possibly perk up a dull June garden. There are other allium ideas on the site too.

My last Allium this season.
Wild Leek - Allium tricoccum Alt.; also known as ramps.

These are the prettiest I've grown, I have about five or six different types.. small yellow and blue ones... and then the large globe blue and white.. and these.
Viv

Those are very interesting - a nice addition to the mid summer garden. Very pretty!

I love all the pics of the summer blooming allium--so delicate and fragile looking--I wonder if they are so?

galanth, do you plant your tiny allium in trough gardens or rock gardens? They seem so petite...

vizz--I love your shot of the allium next to the old door--very pretty.

I have just a few little allium hanging on and then I'm afraid we are finished in our garden for this year. They add a lovely touch to the mixed borders--I have them around hostas here and there ---they are a nice accents. I hope they come back next year (I am not watering around them.).

Here's my 'Star of Persia' dried heads from the past 3 years plus 'aflatunense' from this year.

I'll bet people ask you about them all the time - very unique as a dried arrangement!

I spray painted some red, white, blue, and silver for the 4th of July - fun. Maybe I'll do some green ones and switch out with the blue for Christmas....

I bet that looked neat, did u take any pics? I'd love to see them. They dried heads are the only 'flowers' DH admires - he calls them dandelions on steroids!

I've stored them away, I'll snap a pic this weekend... I like that; dandelions on steroids! lol

Here is Allium validum with a friend. This is from the sierras just north of Yosemite NP.

The last of my alliums (this is a much later and smaller version of a curly leaf variety, but I don't know the name.) I've grown it for years and it has been very well behaved. The taller one (not shown here) is now on it's third batch of spikes having opened first on July 5 2006. Patti