Definitely not discouraged! As an amateur gardener, everything I put in my garden becomes a fantastic adventure. I get a lot of my plants and shrubs as sale items from garden shops, nurseries and roadside stalls, with the remainder from shows, friends or online. Virtually all of the garden survives despite me - but in my small patch, I love it all - except the hundreds of slugs and snails. I love alliums, so will keep trying to get a good display with them. Thanks again
They look like ping pong alliums to me. Mine have grown similarly, tall leaky look, one is probably 6ft + but its under a tree that's grown so I'm wondering if ours hasn't flowered due to lack of light. That said we have a few elsewhere and they look just the same but without flowerheads so who knows. Maybe they take a while to flower, maybe they will do better next year...fingers crossed.
Thanks for all the help with my very tall alliums - they flowered, and the mystery was solved - I think Victoria Sponge named them as Summer Drummer Alliums, and that seems to be a perfect ID. They reached 6 ft 9 inches in old money!!
I also brought some of these 6 years ago from gardeners world in Birmingham and I have never had a single flower (honestly 6 years😧) have lots of leaves which gets larger every year but no flowers, I did dig them up a couple of years ago and move them but still nothing. It's becoming a battle of wills now I refuse to give up on them so I'm going to move them to a completely different part of the garden. Fingers crossed 😂
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Definitely not discouraged! As an amateur gardener, everything I put in my garden becomes a fantastic adventure. I get a lot of my plants and shrubs as sale items from garden shops, nurseries and roadside stalls, with the remainder from shows, friends or online. Virtually all of the garden survives despite me - but in my small patch, I love it all - except the hundreds of slugs and snails. I love alliums, so will keep trying to get a good display with them. Thanks again
They look like ping pong alliums to me. Mine have grown similarly, tall leaky look, one is probably 6ft + but its under a tree that's grown so I'm wondering if ours hasn't flowered due to lack of light. That said we have a few elsewhere and they look just the same but without flowerheads so who knows. Maybe they take a while to flower, maybe they will do better next year...fingers crossed.
Thanks for all the help with my very tall alliums - they flowered, and the mystery was solved - I think Victoria Sponge named them as Summer Drummer Alliums, and that seems to be a perfect ID. They reached 6 ft 9 inches in old money!!
Thanks for the update JMM. Good to know the mystery was solved
Wow.... 6ft 9"
no wonder they were being marketed as giants. Had a quick peek at google images and they look stunning.
Gold star for Victoria ?. This ID had a lot of us stumped.