alliums

[cheops]

I planted allium bulbs last spring [gladiator] and they produced a fine display. The flower heads have now matured after flowering and each little part iis now splitting and showing shiny black seeds. Can one sow these seeds successfully?
Thanks for any replies.

[vicky]

Yes, they take about 3 years to flower

[muslimgrower]

hey..

did they grow well for you ?!

here are mine ( gladiator variety) i collected the seeds too

[keble]

Beautiful photos! Thanks for sharing. I had assumed my alliums would come up a second year and I did have little shoots poking up the next spring but they disappeared and there was no repeat flowering from the bulbs themselves. Someone later told me that I should have dug up the bulbs and separated the new bulblets (?) and replanted those. Have no idea if that's true or not.

[vicky]

Mine come up every year and if you don't weed the 'grass' around them you'll find the babies come up too.
Unfortunately 1 bulb = one flower each year
- so if your very naughty toddler goes round oicking the buds that's your lot....(same for agapanthus and peonies and toddlers....not that I'm bitter!)

[jackie j]

I would love some of those I have been looking at them today but resisted the temtation to buy them at £9.99p for a smallish pot.

[spiderpig]

some of the best photo's ever posted.loving it!

[Mike B]

I would love some of those I have been looking at them today but resisted the temtation to buy them at £9.99p for a smallish pot.

you can get 20 odd bulbs in B&Q for that price come autumn