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Any ideas what this plant is? I bought Alliums and this is what has grown!

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  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Is it Summer Drummer? I vaguely remember a later-flowering allium with pointy buds
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    You star @Nollie ⭐️. I’m think that might be it!  Let’s Google it ...

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  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    Another vote from me for @chicky's suggestion of Nectaroscordum Bulgaricum.

    I grow it here and mine are at a similar stage.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Ah!  I didn’t see your post @chicky 😊 

    and there’s pics on this site that look similar https://www.johnscheepers.com/flower-bulbs-index/allium/allium-summer-drummer.html


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  • otis2ckTM9DKRO1otis2ckTM9DKRO1 Posts: 5
    Thank you all - Reading up, I may have to move these at some stage as they may not be deep enough - they are in a planter - this is my first time ever gardening and I shall be calling on you all at various stages x
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Good grief, I think I might be right for once @Dovefromabove! See here:
    https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/comment/2076813#Comment_2076813
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Summer Drummer. I gave my mum some assorted alliums, and somehow she got one of the white Mount Everest, and one of the summer drummers. I thought I had kept them separate as they flower so much later than the purple rain and Christophii, and they are so tall they need to go at the back of the border(or middle of island beds). I'll put a little ribbon on them and relocate them.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Allium bulgaricum or nectaroscordum are already in flower here. Purple rain have been flowering for two weeks, the A. Christophii are just beginning to open, but the summer drummers will be a while yet.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Summer Drummer, that's the one.
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