Planting alliums gives you the same punch in the late-spring garden as using onions in cooking — all the elements of the dish will be more pungent and appealing. Flowering alliums are, indeed, part of ...

The crocuses disappear, the daffodils fade, the tulips peak, and then up pop the alliums: globes of flowers rising like blue and purple soap bubbles above the lush green foliage of late spring. “I ...

Waving like exclamation points above the garden, alliums add happy punctuation to spring and early- to mid-summer gardens. Garden experts have described alliums or flowering onions as ...

Way back when, I planted a collection featuring red “Paprika” yarrow and blue- and white-blooming allium bulbs (A. caeruleum and “Mount Everest”). Called “Firecrackers” something-or-other, it was a ...

WITH GIANT PURPLE globes and metallic pink sparklers, ornamental onions (Allium) blooming in the spring garden are a spectacular sight. But there are more stars in the Allium galaxy than those ...

Alliums are the magic wands of garden designers, and this versatile family of bulbs should work its magic in all our gardens. The star-studded pompoms on rod-straight stems look wonderful rising head ...