Allium cernuum
NODDING ONION
- Best described as a dangling cyme of little florets
- Flowers are commonly pink and sometimes white
- Flowers mature into fruit opening to show glossy dark seeds
HEIGHT: 45-60 cm · SPREAD: 25-30 cm
Allium giganteum
ORNAMENTAL ONION
- Huge purple balls of tiny star-shaped florets on thick green stems
- This allium is not used for culinary purposes
- Produces grayish-green strap-like leaves
HEIGHT: 125-150 cm · SPREAD: 15-30 cm
Allium giganteum 'Globemaster'
ORNAMENTAL ONION
- Huge balls of purple star-shaped florets are borne on stout stems
- As the flowers fade, new florets take their place
- Strap-like gray-green basal leaves
HEIGHT: 80-100 cm · SPREAD: 15-20 cm
Allium schoenoprasum
WILD CHIVES
- Purple-pink balls of star-like flower clusters
- Both leaves and flowers are edible
- Used for onion flavouring
HEIGHT: 30-60 cm · SPREAD: 30-60 cm
Allium schoenoprasum 'Album'
WILD CHIVES
- White balls of star-like flower clusters
- Grassy-like leaves and flowers are edible
- Used for onion flavouring
HEIGHT: 30-60 cm · SPREAD: 30-60 cm
Allium schoenoprasum 'Forescate'
GIANT-FLOWERED CHIVES
- 'Forescate' is taller and more vigorous than the species
- Deep pink to purple spherical flowers
- Both the leaves and the flowers are edible
HEIGHT: 25-30 cm · SPREAD: 35-40 cm
Allium schoenoprasum 'Rising Star'
CHIVES
- 'Rising Star' is shorter and more vigorous than the species
- Spherical lavender flowers
- Fine-textured gray-green hollow grass-like foliage
HEIGHT: 25-30 cm · SPREAD: 25-30 cm
Allium senescens 'Blue Eddy'
PINK CURLY ONION
- Clumps of blue-gray foliage
- Foliage grows in a spiral fashion
- Short stems hold spherical lilac-pink flowers
HEIGHT: 20-25 cm · SPREAD: 25-30 cm
Allium tuberosum
GARLIC CHIVES
- Clump forming perennial
- Chive-like, gray-green foliage
- Tiny, white, star-shaped flowers with brown, striped tepals
HEIGHT: 30-40 cm · SPREAD: 30-60 cm
Allium x 'Millenium'
ORNAMENTAL ONION
- Pink-purple, globe-shaped flowers of multiple florets
- Upright clump of glossy, grass-like foliage
- Compact habit
HEIGHT: 40-45 cm · SPREAD: 25-30 cm
Allium x 'Mount Everest'
ORNAMENTAL ONION
- Spherical umbels of white star-shaped florets
- Upright ribbed stems
- Aptly named for its statuesque form
HEIGHT: 100-125 cm · SPREAD: 20-30 cm