Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
Alliums, or flowering onions, seem to spread either by offset (bulbs multiply and send up new leaves and flower stalks while attached to the parent bulb) or by seed, occasionally both ways. I’ve not noticed A. karataviense multiply via offset, but it does set a copious quantity of seeds. New plants start to bloom in […]
Alliums Rule!
Bees love the soft pink flowers of Allium karataviense
Every gardener realizes, almost from day one, that there are no certainties when it comes to predicting how well things will grow. You can have, on paper, the perfect soil, perfect amount of sunlight, perfect temperatures, perfect moisture levels and still come up with a hugely disappointing crop yield or flower display. On the other […]
Officially we’ve nearly a month left of spring but with temps close to 30 yesterday it was suddenly shorts and sandals weather. Most of the spring bulbs have had their days of glory, and now that the Camassia are swooning around in all their blue splendour there’s only the Alliums left to bloom (Purple Sensation […]