Allium Cernuum
Pacific Rim (Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:17:52 PDT)

Hello, Fred. Allium cernuum and many other clumping onions often do look
like small leeks when they are shipped. This is because they are dug and
stored.

My nursery is so small that advance digging of some species does not make
sense. When we get an order, we tip a clump out of a pot, or fork it out of
the ground, knock of the sandy mix, cut off the tops by half to two-thirds
and send the bulbs in slightly moist peat. I hear they do pretty well.

Notes: This is an Allium native in much of North America. The plants do vary
in color of leaf and flower, height, etc. I can't prove that their cold
tolerance varies, too -- some of my plants descend from seeds in the Zone 3
interior of British Columbia, but I grow them all here in Zone 6. But
perhaps you got a plant used to warmer climates than where you live. It
could also be (though I don't wish to offend you) that you planted your
plants late, or in hostile conditions. These things happen. Even nurseries
sometimes mis-plant.

Paige Woodward
paige@hillkeep.ca
http://www.hillkeep.ca/

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