Hi Karen,
I tried two new ones this year in my garden as well. Favorite has to be
karataviense. Foliage is even more lovely than the blooms... which is
saying something. The leaves are about 8 inches long and quite broad. Each
leaf is glaucous and distinctly market along the edge in red. The large
ball of tiny blooms are rose-violet. It is summer dormant. The other is the
Blue of Heavens or A. azureum. Blooms are small, but if planted in bunches
it is lovely underplanted among Hardy Geraniums. The blue blooms on the end
of slender stems poking up through the geranium foliage and above pink
blooms is nice, I think.
Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin Nursery
around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
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> From: Helfert, Karen (OD)
> Subject: Re: New plants!
> Date: Monday, October 05, 1998 8:19 AM
> If you like allium, there are two I grew for the first time last year and
I
today,
> so I
> went to our Home Depot. Guess what I found! A very well
stocked
> selection of
> flower bulbs. I think I over did it, but they all looked so
wonderful.
> I did this same thing; I was going to order from catalogs, but
since
> Home
> Depot had so many varieties, and at $2.96 for every bulb, I'm
taking a
> chance on them. I don't care for much about Home Depot - the
service at
> the
> ones here is usually very bad, and their plants seem ill
cared-for, so
> I
> hope these bulbs come up!
> I was pleased to find that they had, in a bottom corner of the
bulb
> display, a few Globemaster Alliums (the ones with the
basketball-sized
> flowers)! Seeing these going for between 7 and 12 dollars in
catalogs, I
> was happy to see that they'd been priced at $2.96 along with
everything
> else, and bought three. I also got a bag of daffodils, some
crocuses,
> smaller Alliums, Tuilps (Negrita), and a few others. Ok, Home
Depot,
