Ornamental summer stunners

By Denise Gadd
Updated November 20 2012 - 12:18pm, first published September 8 2012 - 3:00am
Alliums are gems in the summer garden.
Alliums are gems in the summer garden.

THERE is nothing more annoying than yearning for a particular flower in the garden and realising it's too late to plant the wretched thing. Alliums are a case in point. I adore them and saw many when I visited England and the Chelsea Flower Show in May. Designers used them in their show gardens to stunning effect and landscapers here also feature them strongly. They blend well with other flowers but still manage to be the star turn, especially mass plantings of Allium giganteum, with stems growing to 1.8 metres and 10-centimetre to 15-centimetre-diameter violet to deep-purple flower heads towering over the floral pack.

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