Yard Pictures: Purple-and-White Garden

[ysabetwordsmith]

I took some pictures of my yard today.


This is the purple-and-white garden.


This allium is blooming lavender. I love these things because they're so pretty and herbivores won't eat them. I think these are from the 2 Months of Alliums Mixture. There was a blue one blooming earlier but it's done by now.


This one is pink. Those tiny green dots in the flowers are seedpods beginning to form. Usually my ornamental alliums set a lot of seed.


This one is hot pink.


A bumblebee is visiting these white alliums. She was very enthusiastic about attending to each one of the many tiny flowers. :D This is the first time I managed to photograph a bumblebee this year -- the earlier ones refused to settle anywhere. Alliums are great for photographing insects because they have all those flowers in one place. I'm always happy to see wildlife enjoying my garden. \o/



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Comments

[pensnest]

I have a bunch of purple alliums now—last year each bulb produced one *big* pompom, but this time there are clusters of smaller ones. I'm guessing the bulbs have split? They are fun flowers. I kept three big dried ones from last year because of the wonderful drama of the dried heads.

Hmm ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's probably what happened. I was intrigued to know that some alliums, like elephant garlic, form a single huge bulb first and then in a later season develop into cloves. If that's the case, then you should be able to divide by cloves, spread them out, and get big blooms again later.

Re: Hmm ...

[pensnest]

I hope so! When there are new flower beds I shall see whether the alliums will divide. There will be quite a lot of expensive planting, and saving money on alliums will be good.

Re: Hmm ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Yeah, the smaller alliums are affordable, but the bigger ones are really expensive.