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Help my alliums have flopped over

rebeccamM6CA_Gn6rebeccamM6CA_Gn6 Posts: 133
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Novice needing advice please! 
I have two allium purple sensations that have grown well so far into bud. Now at 10 cm high with buds they have both flopped over to my dismay! It has rained a lot over past few days...will they be ok again if they dry out and I stake them? Or is all lost? Any advice hugely appreciated! (They get sun from morning to 2pm maybe this is not enough and I’m scared to move them in the green!) 

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  • rebeccamM6CA_Gn6rebeccamM6CA_Gn6 Posts: 133
    I have today moved them to a slightly sunnier position carefully with lot of grit and a stake. Fingers crossed! 
  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    Allium quite often flop, mine were like that earlier in the week and are nicely upright now.
    Don't think mine get as much sun as yours either.
  • rebeccamM6CA_Gn6rebeccamM6CA_Gn6 Posts: 133
    Thanks! Two survived and one has given up the goat. Oh well!
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    My husband trampled over several of mine today. Some with very short stems are in a vase.  He wonders why I try and keep him away from flowers and the veg patch try to keep him  to lawns and hedges.
  • rebeccamM6CA_Gn6rebeccamM6CA_Gn6 Posts: 133
    Haha! Oh gosh! Wise indeed! I keep my dear boyfriend to lawn duty, but he even managed to scalp that last week so I think best left out of the garden altogether ahaha! In retrospect I think that I planted mine at a time when I knew a lot less about gardening, back in winter, and I fear that I did not add enough grit and sand. My clay soil just isn't allium friendly. We live and learn....
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