A stunning new Allium hybrid, a cross between the Central Asian A. stipitatum and South west Asian A. aflatunense, with 90cm tall stiff stems topped by 10-12cm balls of white flowers. Easily grown if it’s given full sun during winter and spring and kept fairly dry during, more...

Of all the bulbs I grow in the Dry Garden this is the most spectacular. Huge perfectly round flower heads of purple pink flowers are carried on 100-120 cm tall stems during late spring and early summer. When in leaf growth during winter and early spring it needs to be in, more...

One of the smaller growing ornamental on­ions which will soon make decent sized and showy clumps in the garden. During late winter in our dry garden this onion’s hand­some wide greyish basal leaves push through the bare earth where earlier flower­ing perennials have been cut, more...

Criss and I first saw this growing in the gar­den at Charlston Farmhouse about 20 years ago. We use it in our double flower borders and the dry climate garden where, around Christmas and the turn of the new year, me­tre tall stems are topped by green golf balls which over a, more...