Most folks consider tulips an annual flower and replace them every fall because they rarely return and bloom well after the first year. Tulips come from the high mountains of the “stan” countries ...

I love Alliums because they add fantastic form, color and texture to your summer garden. They’re incredibly easy to grow, disdained by deer and rodents and have few (if any) insect pests. There are ...

06:14, Mon, May 18, 2015 Updated: 09:16, Mon, May 18, 2015 In short: plants with built-in wow factor. Flowering in that awkward gap between the last spring bulbs and the first summer flowers, their ...

Ciscoe Morris returns with more gardening expertise! Today he shows us how to care for Allium in our gardens. Alliums (ornamental onions) are versatile, yet under used, bulbs for the sunny border.

One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, peony, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia. Alliums, ...

As autumn progresses, garden centers really want to move those familiar spring bulbs like tulips and daffodils. (They won’t keep till next year.) But there are a few compelling reasons gardeners, even ...

The Perennial Plant Association hit pure gold by voting Allium Millennium the Perennial Plant of the Year for 2018. A hardy perennial to zone four, this allium is compact (12 to18 inches tall and wide ...

My appreciation of a plant is based on two considerations – how it looks and how it performs from year to year. As the moniker Casual Gardener implies, I’m not the most attentive plantsman and at my ...

Mention the word alliums and many of us will instantly think of the many different edible members of the onion family, from chives (Allium schoenoprasum), leeks (Allium ampeloprasum) and garlic ...

Question: I thought I was buying edible onions to plant in my garden, but I didn’t read the package well enough and I bought ornamental onions. It looks like they are supposed to have a round ball of ...

Q: I was planting a few last tulips and accidentally cut one of my big ‘Globemaster’ (allium) bulbs. Do you think I’ll get two smaller ones or will it just rot? A: If you sliced a new ...