Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I'm no master gardener or pro florist, but I pay attention to flowers - arrangements in restaurants and store window displays, ...

With their slender stems and spherical blooms, alliums are a show-stopping addition to any garden – and they happen to be blissfully low-maintenance, too. In May, you'll want to focus on fertilizing ...

Alliums flower May through July. They prefer a sandy soil in full sun or light shade. Plant the bulbs at a depth twice their own diameter and space generously as most will perennialize to form large ...

All hail this beautiful perennial, I say!

Large purple Globemaster allium in full bloom - Alex Manders/Getty Images Alliums help fill that awkward gap in blooms that comes after the flush of daffodils and tulips in the spring, before the ...

In the world of spring-blooming bulbs, alliums really are something special. Seemingly designed by Dr. Seuss, they’d be the truffula trees of the flower world if they weren’t so perfectly spherical.

Alliums have risen again in my garden. Beautiful ‘Purple Sensation’. Gorgeous white ‘Mount Everest’. Weirdly wonderful Allium bulgaricum. And supersize Allium giganteums and others are still to come.

Among the allium family are onions, shallots and garlic. Whilst these should remain in your veggie patch there are plenty of ornamental alliums that deserve a place in your garden. These plants ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Floral Design and Photography by Leatal Cohen of Pic and Petal Credit: Floral Design and Photography by Leatal Cohen of ...