Knowing your onions pays off in the flowery part of your garden as well as on the vegetable patch. In recent years everyone seems to have heard the word allium, the botanical name for the onion family ...

What is it? Since it became a common sight at the Chelsea Flower Show, this May/June-flowering bulb with compact lollipops of pure purple has become popular, and rightly so: it is easy to grow and ...

21:39, Thu, Sep 10, 2015 Updated: 21:48, Thu, Sep 10, 2015 They are usually available from August, but that is too early to plant them - it's best to stick to late September and October for most bulbs ...

I adore alliums. You can also call them ornamental onions. But don’t be put off. These are nothing like the tear-provoking kitchen onions. These produce magnificent flowers. I think you will love them ...

Take your garden to new heights with alliums. This ornamental member of the onion family provides welcome color as spring bulbs fade and before summer perennials fill our gardens with colorful blooms.

The alliums are up early, spearing ground while most things are still asleep. I have several here, but it is "Purple Sensation" that is the first to make itself felt. By April, when the hornbeam is ...

Ornamental alliums are one of the easiest, most striking and cost-effective fall-planted but spring-flowering bulbs that you can grow. Purple Sensation allium. They are easy because deer and other ...