{"id":13698,"date":"2022-07-01T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=13698"},"modified":"2022-06-28T22:41:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T02:41:44","slug":"rhizomatous-alliums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2022\/07\/01\/rhizomatous-alliums\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhizomatous Alliums"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Allium ‘Millenium’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Alliums are a members of the lily family, containing 1100\nspecies, including the edible kinds that you add to your burgers and salads. In\nthe ornamental flower world include spring- blooming bulbs, culinary herbs and\ndurable foliage and bountiful summer flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether your summer garden is located in a challenging part of the U.S. such as Texas or Oklahoma or a moist humus-rich ground in New York or Virginia, take a peek at the perennial gems in the onion family (genus <\/u>Allium<\/em>). Recently, Richard Hawke, Director of Ornamental Plant Research at the Chicago Botanical Gardens CBG), published the top-rated rhizomatous alliums in the Midwest region (see below).<\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rhizomatous alliums just ask for sun and well-drained soil. All are all drought resistant and thrive on dry sites. They are all highly drought tolerant, especially after plants have established themselves their first season. \u00a0Pest and disease issues are usually rare. Watch for occasional leaf spots, molds, thrips, and onion flies. Allium plantings are busy with beneficial insect life, covered by numerous bees and butterfly species. And deer don\u2019t dig onions or chives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A. tanguticum<\/em> ‘Summer Beauty’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I have a number of favorites, many of them on the \u201cCBG\u2019s Best Of\u201d listing which appears in the August \u201822 Fine Gardening Issue. Let me start with A. \u2018Millenium\u2019, Perennial Plant of the Year winner in 2018. It produces masses of 2.5″ rosy-purple flowers above the dark green foliage in midsummer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A. \u2018Windy City\u2019- thin dark-green leaves provide a dramatic backdrop for 2″ lavender-purple flower clusters on strong, dark stems. Spent flowers persist for winter interest, and are near-sterile, meaning very little seed. This compact variety is perfect for small spaces such as in a rock garden.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A. tanguticum<\/em> \u2018Summer Beauty\u2019 – long-blooming ornamental onion that produces showy, globe-shape 2\u201d lavender-pink blooms in mid-summer and shiny deep green throughout the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the CBG evaluation, three rhizomatous alliums were highly mentioned but not rated: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A. \u2018Serendipity\u2019 \u2013 sport\nof ‘Millenium’ great stuts attractive blue green foliage. Globe-like, 2.5\u201d rosy-purple\nblooms that flower abundantly in mid to late summer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A. \u2018Big Beauty\u2019- soft pink 3\u201d flowers with gray-green foliage in early to mid-summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A. \u2018Lavander Bubbles\u2019 – blooms a month later than ‘Millenium’ with darker shade of 3″ purple floral globes above attractive glaucous blue-green foliage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full CBG report in Fine Gardening magazine (August 2022 issue).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alliums are a members of the lily family, containing 1100 species, including the edible kinds that you add to your burgers and salads. In the ornamental flower world include spring- blooming bulbs, culinary herbs and durable foliage and bountiful summer flowers. Whether your summer garden is located in a challenging part of the U.S. such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,1117,1218,747,1319,749,1037,1472,674,806,665,1324,1138,891,853,551,1571,625,812,729,777,630,706,646],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13705,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698\/revisions\/13705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}