Very rarely does this ornamental onion have only one leaf. More usually sold as A. murrayanum it is one of the easiest of spring flowering bulbs happy here both in the dry garden and the more regularly wa­tered double borders where it flowers through mats of Viola cornuta. The clear rich pink flowers are held, half a dozen or so to each head, on 25cm tall stems. In flower for more than a month and readily building up good numbers. Sun. 25cm x 15cm.