Ornamental onion
Allium 'Forelock'
Genus: Allium
Cultivar: 'Forelock' ...
Ornamental Onion, Turkestan Allium
Scientific Name: Allium karataviense Regel
Synonym:
Family: Alliaceae ...
Ornamental Onion
Related to Onions, Garlic and Leeks, Ornamental Onions are grown for their dense clusters of flowers, which look like lollipops. Height varies from 6 inches to 5 feet. Use for rock gardens, naturalizing and flower borders.
Allium senescens
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Ornamental Onions
You'll know these pretty plants are in the onion family from the mildly pungent odor of their leaves when cut, but they certainly won't bring tears to your eyes! ...
Ornamental Onions (Allium species): These beautiful relatives of onions have small flowers in globular clusters that range from just an inch wide to over 8 inches across.
Alliums ORNAMENTAL ONIONS
Allium 'Globemaster'
ORNAMENTAL ONION
Allium karataviense
TURKESTAN ONION ...
also known as (ornamental onion, Allium multibulbosum, broad-leaved onion, black garlic)
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Common name Ornamental onion
Latin name Allium
Group Bulb
Flowering time Spring to mid-summer
Planting time Autumn
Height and spread Up to 1.8m (6ft) and 30cm (1ft)
Aspect Sun
Hardiness Hardy to borderline hardy ...
Korean Ornamental Onion [English]: Allium splendens
Korean Peppertree [English]: Zanthoxylum schinifolium
Korean Pine [English]: Pinus densiflora 'Oculus-draconis'
Korean Pine [English]: Pinus koraiensis ...
(Ornamental Onion)
Amsonia sp. (Blue Star)
Anemonella thalictroides (Windflower)
Anisacanthus wrightii (Texas Firecracker)
Antirrhinum sp. (Snapdragon)
Aralia sp. (Spikenard)
Arisaema sp. (Cobra Lily, Jack in the Pulpit)
Artemisia sp. (Artemisia) ...
Even if one doesn't wish to eat one's ornamental onion bulbs because they're better left as flowers, the leaves can be cut for kitchen use especially cooked, & with enough flowers to spare, young yellow blossoms make an edible decoration in salad.
Persian Onion, one of the largest of the ornamental onions, will significantly decline in foliage appearance by mid-summer, ...
[203]Davies. D. Alliums. The Ornamental Onions.
Covers about 200 species of Alliums. A very short section on their uses, good details of their cultivation needs.
[233]Thomas. G. S. Perennial Garden Plants ...
They look sort of like the leaves of an Allium, or Ornamental Onion. The flower is small and is actually white with dark pink veins running through the petals. This makes it look pink.
 See also: Onion, Ornamental Onions, Garlic, Green, Pink
  
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