Planting Alliums
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Alliums are distinctive Spring/Summer bulbs that make a very attractive addition to borders. They are very easy to grow and are showy plants which look fantastic in beds or rock gardens. In recent years these bulbs have become very fashionable in the British garden and top of the list for garden designers.
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0:00 Late September, autumn bulb planting. now one plant you mustn't miss is the Allium
0:07 ornamental onion beautiful tall statuesque makes wonderful cut flower
0:12 but in a border like this a large clump planted up, now for those that don't know
0:17 pointed end you'll always find there growing tip that's the way up roots come
0:21 out at the bottom and it is an ornamental onion couldn't be easier if
0:25 you want the rule of thumb three times the size of the bulb that's how deep you
0:29 want to go it's not not really really important but just as a rough guide
0:32 three times and for a collection like this is twenty-five for well under a
0:37 tenner they fantastic this when it grows up next spring will knock your socks off
0:43 so this purple sensation wonderful, size of a small football heads lovely deep
0:49 purple and I'll tell you what as economies grow for under a ten or twenty
0:55 five bulbs in springtime there's going to be a lovely big mass, front of border.
0:59 you're paying for these let people see them I'll tell you what your friends and
1:03 neighbours will be knocked out by these. Fantastic plants, with these you can't go
1:08 wrong, I'm going to plot a few more clumps of these and by the time you see
1:11 them next spring this is going to be alive with colour.
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