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Allium Cottage Garden ‘bulb Collection’

Original price was: £14.99.Current price is: £10.49.

SKU: D2FPD 1699872615 Categories: Bulb collections, Bulbs, Plants Tag: WAITROSE

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Position: Full sun
Soil: Moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil
Flowering period: May to June
Hardiness: Fully hardy

These popular bulbous perennials are highly prized for their spectacular flowerheads, which will add colour and structure to the late spring and early summer border. Most offer a long period of interest and will help attract beneficial insects including bees. They are also valuable for cutting and adding to fresh or dried arrangements. Originating from dry, mountainous regions, they are easy to grow and will thrive in sunny spots with reasonably fertile, well-drained soil.

In each collection you will receive the following:

5 × Allium atropurpureum : In early to mid summer, each upright stem is crowned with a rounded cluster of small flowers, each flower is made up of deep pink to purple petals surrounding a blueberry-purple centre. Grows to 75cm.
5 × Allium cristophii: Up to 100 slender-petalled, greyish lilac flowers form large (up to 25cm in diameter), particularly showy heads, which remain attractive well after the flowers have faded. Grows to 60cm.
35 × Allium sphaerocephalon: A gorgeous allium with small, egg-shaped flowerheads, that top tall, slender stems in mid- to late summer. Planted en-masse in a border, these diminutive claret-coloured flowers look great emerging from a screen of foliage, or against a backdrop of then the flowers gently fade as summer comes to a close. Grows to 90cm.
5 × Allium hollandicum ‘Purple Sensation’: Large rounded flowerheads are crowded with a mass of purple, star-shaped flowers, each with a green bead-like eye. An impressive border perennial. Grows to 80cm.