Summer Beauty Allium Plant

This plant will provide nectar and pollen for bees and the many other types of pollinating insects.

Summer beauty allium plant. Allium Summer Beauty is a cultivar of a plant native from central Europe to northern Asiafrom France and Italy to Siberia and Kazakhstan and is at home in the Midwestern perennial garden. Gives roots time to acclimate before winter and you know where everything is growing. This winter-hardy bulb technically a rhizome produces strap-like leaves in spring followed by soft-pink round flower clusters on long stalks from June into August.

Alliums are sun-lovers and prefer well-drained even sandy soil. Plant your bulbs in neat rows of 10 bulbs a few inches apart. The RHS Award of Garden Merit AGM helps gardeners choose the best plants for their garden.

Plants can be slow to establish but generally begin spreading after three years. Cold hardy deer resistant and easy to care for this gorgeous allium will attract plentiful bees and butterflies. Summer Beauty Ornamental Onion Allium Summer Beauty Description Overview.

Pink Interesting 2 inch lilac-pink globe flowers emerge from narrow strappy dark-green foliage. In the meantime there is a way you can get alliums this year. Roy Diblik of Northwind Perennial Farm developed A.

Summer Beauty is a team player. Like other alliums they need full sun are drought tolerant and deer resistant. Its not as showy and tall as the fall-planted bulbs.

Summer Beauty allium Allium tanguticum Summer Beauty shows off clusters of dark lavender-blue flowers in midsummer on 2-foot-tall stems. Grow by milkweed to repel aphids. Summer Beauty Growing Tips.