John suggested I would have thousands of seedlings if I didn't deadhead my Allium tuberosum, which has been in the same place for at least 15 years. I don't deadhead it. I don't use its flowers in salads because I prefer to use the pink and purple ones of A. cernuum and schoenoprasum. So perhaps my conditions are just on the edge of its requirements, and it survives, and multiplies only a little. -- Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada maritime zone 8 cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually) sandy soil