Alliums in flower

Kathleen Sayce kathleen.sayce@gmail.com
Thu, 25 May 2017 19:32:35 PDT
Two of my Allium seedling pots are flowering right now for the first time, and to my moderate surprise, both look like the species names on the tags. : )

One is Allium campanulatum, with open, flat pinkish flowers, a western US native, and the other is A. scornozerifolium, bright yellow, from Spain and Portugal. No sign of bulbils on the latter, though only one stem is flowering. I’m still pulling out A. roseum when it flowers, a careless planting more than a decade ago.  

Allium seedlings were heavily munched by chipmunks/squirrels/voles when out in the open, these are growing under heavy wire mesh. Once they reach blooming size, they are usually safe out in the garden, though I noticed today that a patch of A. subhirsutum is much reduced from past years, and its tag is missing. A. obliquum looks all right, and A. unifolium also looks fine. 

Kathleen
PNW Coast, zone 8
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