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Advice on suitability of a flower
Kashif Mehmood
Posts: 26
in Plants
Hello,
I would like to plant this flower:
http://www.suttons.co.uk/Gardening/Flower+Bulbs/All+Bulbs/Allium+Bulbs+-+Ornamental+Onion_290953.htm
in my flower bed. For some reason, I cannot upload a picture but the flower bed has bricks on one side and the garden on the other side.
In the "growing instructions" for this flower, the site has mentioned the following information:
"When planting choose an area that is freely drained as bulbs will rot in waterlogged areas."
Can anybody advise if this is relevant for me? Would my flower bed get waterlogged or how do I determine that? I am very good at wasting money by buying flowers and then killing them in a couple of months. I would like to break the cycle. 
Many thanks in advance.
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Pansy has given great advice, i would definately test your soil
Ive got them in a heavyish soil in semi shade and they do fine, as long as your soil isnt really wet over winter, you wont have any problems. The spot you described sounds like it has more chance of being too dry than wet, so should be fine
Bulbs are very forgiving and much tougher than we think, go for it, im sure you will be really pleased
If you decide to plant it in your garden, you can improve its chances by placing some horticultural grit in the bottom of the planting hole to improve the drainage
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you very much. Excellent advice.