May
15
Allium Flower
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Better known as flowers of the onion. Ok, if you take the onion you find in your kitchen and put it in the ground, it will give you a big yet green-white flower.
Allium Giganteum
Allium Giganteum opening its flowers
From all the onion or allium flowers, I prefer Allium Giganteum. It’s the highest of all alliums: the flower can stand 1.5m or 5 feet above ground!
Allium Giganteum is also the latest flowering bulb of all spring flower bulbs. Normally it starts blooming in July, and just before the flowers open (see Allium Giganteum picture above) they are already very decorative.
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Dec
18
Allium Karataviense
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Allium karataviense: Tulip like leaves…
The next Onion flower on my list of Allium Flowers is my second best favorite: Allium Karataviense or Turkestan Onion. This onion flower is blooming in June, so that means it is blooming now in Australia because it’s almost summer there.
It’s only 20 cm (about 8 inch) high and especially the blue-green leaves remind me from time to time to leaves of tulips. In our local florist shop, it is sold as Ivory Queen Cultivar. The plant and flowers look lovely in your garden when you surround them with stones.
I love to grow mine in a pot in full sun and throw some big pebbles on the top. It’s cute to see this little plant attracting bees and butterflies.
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Dec
14
Allium Sativum
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Allium sativum sounds so intelligent, but we are talking garlic here 
Like all bulbs, allium sativum is easy to grow. Especially in winter indoors. Outdoors they can be planted already in February. If you are serious to have your own garlic bulbs to cultivate garlic bulbs, then go to your florist and buy garlic bulbs for that purpose now!
If you are like me and just love to add the green garlic leaves in your salad then buy the cheapest garlic you can find at the grocery shop, put them just under the soil in a flower pot and a few days later you have fresh produce of allium sativum leaves!
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