Knowing your onions pays off in the flowery part of your garden as well as on the vegetable patch. In recent years everyone seems to have heard the word allium, the botanical name for the onion family ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Now is the time for an annual act of faith: looking ahead for bulbs which might flower well in spring. This year I am ...

One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, peony, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia. Alliums, ...

Mention the word alliums and many of us will instantly think of the many different edible members of the onion family, from chives (Allium schoenoprasum), leeks (Allium ampeloprasum) and garlic ...

Lavender grows 12 to 18 inches tall and wide. They require full exposure to sunlight. The aromatic flowers grow in a lush green foliage. Allium produce globular-shaped flowers and are available in ...

Alliums are the ornamental relatives of garlic. This year, with lots of rain and cool temperatures, they sprouted early and went to bloom outrageously creating glorious garden pictures. And, since ...

Gardeners looking for a new flower for their beds might consider the allium called "Millenium" that was selected as the 2018 "perennial plant of the year" by the Perennial Plant Association. The ...

Credit: Floral Design and Photography by Leatal Cohen of Pic and Petal Credit: Floral Design and Photography by Leatal Cohen of Pic and Petal I’m no master gardener or pro florist, but I pay attention ...