Allium roseum

Allium roseumAllium Roseum is an ornamental onion with green, grass like foliage towards the base, on the top of the stem or scape forms a loose umbel of approximately 7cm in diameter with several cup shaped florets that vary with hues of light whites blushed with light pinks. Loose umbels of blushed pinks, rosy flowered Allium Roseum has distinct cup shaped florets that are delightful in garden spaces. Eye catching to gardeners and onlookers alike, Roseum is also

the tree prefers moderately dry to moist nutrient-rich soils and it grows best in a bright and warm location with plenty of direct sunlight

Great to use at the front of beds or border or in pots

The overlapping petals have an almost paper-like fragility to them

How frustrating is it having a fruit tree with no fruit

the foliage is deeply-lobed and the branches are covered with spiny thorns (giving the tree the second part of its common name)

central cup of a spectacular yellow trumpet with a rippled and curled mouth

Gladiolus Italicus exhibits several characteristics of these blooms including zygomorphic symmetry in which the flowerhead is similar to a reflected half of the flower across a vertical plane

With their sumptous sweetness and colourful appearance

Native to areas around the Mediterranean

Boasting pure white double flowers with gentle yellow centres

Specially prepared with earlier colder temperatures in order to induce earlier indoor blooming

fertile soils in dappled shade to full sun