Enhance Your Garden with Stunning Ornamental Alliums

Introduction to Ornamental Alliums

Ornamental alliums are a must-have for any garden enthusiast seeking to add height and drama. These tall, striking plants create a visual impact that draws the eye and elevates the overall garden aesthetic. Your order includes 3 Mount Everest bulbs and 5 Purple Sensation.

Meet the Assorted Allium Bulbs

This unique assortment features the White Mount Everest and Purple Sensation bulbs. White Mount Everest alliums soar to an impressive height of 44-48 inches. In contrast, Purple Sensations are slightly shorter (30-36″) but no less captivating with their vibrant color.

Planting and Arrangement Tips

You have the flexibility to either plant these alliums together or spread them throughout your garden. When planted in clusters, they serve as magnificent watchtowers over smaller plants, ensuring a cohesive and visually appealing landscape. With these alliums, you can effortlessly create a garden that’s both beautiful and dynamic.

Planting and Caring Tips For Ornamental Alliums

• All alliums like rich, well-drained soil and prefer a mostly sunny site.  In fall, set the Purple Sensation 4 inches deep; set the Mt. Everest 8 inches deep.
• You many choose to plant your alliums throughout the garden in clusters or as standalones. Purple Sensations should be at least 5 inches apart and Mt. Everest, at least a foot. The best effect is gained by planting a clump of bulbs—three to five spaced well apart for large alliums or a group of 10 to 15 for smaller species.
• Alliums look great among mounding perennials such as lady’s mantle, true geraniums, irises, or sedums. Hostas, silver-leaved artemesias, and peonies also make good companion plants. The leaves on the allium plant tend to get brown by the time they flower, so these companion plants help to hide that.
• Add compost around new shoots in the spring.
• Ornamental allium bulbs are long-lived and multiply readily. Most will naturalize in Zones 4 to 8, and they bloom on a most timely basis, in May or June or even July, between the carnival of spring bloom and the full flowering of summer.
• You can cut alliums for use in in indoor arrangements. There is a faint oniony scent that will disappear when the stems are put into water. Cut them when the flowers heads are just one-quarter open.
• You can leave allium seed heads on the stems in your garden; they remain attractive, interesting focal points.

How to plant alliums in your garden:

1. Wait until the soil is 60 degrees Fahrenheit or colder. In the North this will be in October or early November, in the South in November or early December.
2. Pick a spot in your garden that has well-draining soil and gets full sun.
3. Plant the allium bulbs about 4-8” deep and 6-8” apart, placing them in the ground with their pointy ends up.
4. Water well once and wait for spring
5. After the alliums have bloomed don’t cut off the foliage. Leave it until it’s completely withered and yellow, then remove.