Buy Allium Plants
Important group of edible and ornamental herbs, frequently garlic scented and so traditionally planted near roses both to keep bugs away and allegedly enhance scent. A surprising number occur wild in Britain but are extremely localised in their distribution. The architectural species with "geodesic-dome" type heads usually prefer dry conditions and full sun whilst the smaller species, particularly the culinary varieties mostly prefer richer damper surroundings and naturalise well. Many are extremely attractive with an assortment of flower shapes.
Please note we don't sell bulbs of the larger species and when potted they are unsuited to courier despatch because of the impossibility of packaging them. However, we do have a wide variety of the big ones for collection from the nursery by clients needing instant gardens, Chelsea exhibits etc. Small ones can usually be sent with impunity. D A golden dye may be extracted from the skins of most Alliums
The following plants may be available to buy from Arne Herbs Nursery. Please contact us or call +44 (0) 1275 333 399 to confirm stock availability.
| Allium afflatuense, purple sensation |
| As much as we hate "named varieties" as artificial travesties, we have to stock this amazingly spectacular variety
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| Allium ampeloprasum var babingtonii Babington Leek |
| Rare British native, tall with top sprouting bulbuls named for CC Babington who died in 1895
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| Allium azureum syn A caeruleum Blue allium |
| Relatively short, about 24", buy it for its startling looks
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| Allium canadense var fraseri (?) |
| Use bulbs as onions, stems as chives, excellent pickling and stewing onion. White flrs. Attractive and versatile Allium. Explorers in the North West said to have subsisted on it for months
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| Allium carinatum pulchellum var rosea |
| Gets everywhere, but so pretty that no one cares. The pink flrs resemble a mass of sparklers at a childrens' party
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| Allium carinatum pulchellum var alba |
| White form of above Flrs like a blizzard of snow flakes
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| Allium cepa var perutile Ever ready onion |
| Everyone's granny grew this now rare herb for a constant supply of small onions
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| Allium cepa var proliferum Tree onion |
| Rich loam and full sun, see how many generations you can grow on one stem, much more fun than competing for the tallest sun flower
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| Allium cernuum Nodding onion |
| It nods, what more can you say beyond praising its lovely magenta flrs
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| Allium christophii |
| One of the big geodesic domes for the hot dry garden
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| Allium cyathophorum syn farreri |
| My favourite Allium not just because it's easy but the claret coloured bells are beautiful, otherwise much like a chive
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| Allium cyrilli |
| Said to smell better than your average Allium. Flowers are quite pretty too
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| Allium fistulosum Welsh onion |
| Like a chive only much, much bigger
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| Allium flavum Small yellow onion |
| Small and temperamental, masses of yellow flrs some years, none the next
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| Allium giganteum var "Gladiator" |
| Said to be even more spectacular than the celebrated species
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| Allium karataviense |
| Interesting dwarf rockery plant with attractive foliage and purple flrs
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| Allium Macleanii |
| syn A elatum, a big one found growing in the desert around Kabul so there are advantages in buying from us rather than digging up in the wild
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| Allium moly |
| Yellow flrs like A flavum, but generally more reliable
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| Allium moly var "Mount Everest" Actually it doesn't look anything like A.moly but I didn't classify it |
| New to us so no description, however its reputation as a superb ornamental has gone before it, though whether it has the magiferous qualities described in Homer we don't know
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| Allium Neapolitanum Neapolitan onion |
| Low growing to about 12" White flrs, naturalises well
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| Allium nigrum |
| Not really black at all, but named for its ovaries. An attractive low growing white flowered species
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| Allium Oreophilum "Ostrowskianum" |
| Familiar and deservedly popular dwarf Allium from Afghani mountains with variable reddish flrs
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| Allium rosenbachianum |
| Magnificent violet stars for your desert but normally survives OK on grit in the sunniest part of the garden
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| Allium roseum |
| Pretty plant with as many names as variants, naturalises enthusiastically in warm well drained spot
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| Allium sativum Garlic |
| No kitchen garden should be without a clump. French claim making love to lusty peasant girl after meal alleviates smell on breath (but will probably cause heart attack instead)
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| Allium sativum var ophioscordum Serpent garlic |
| Arching stems in a hot dry garden make this reminiscent of a shoal (?) of Loch Ness monsters
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| Allium schoenoprasum Chives |
| Unusual Allium in that it likes rich damp loam, specially if it is regularly cut. Remember to put flrs in salads
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| Allium schoenoprasum var album White chives |
| White version of common chives with very fine leaves unlike boring old ordinary chives
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| Allium schubertii |
| Another of the big ones described by one authority as being like "an exploding firework"
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| Allium senescens var montana Mountain garlic |
| Pinkly floriferous in a stumpy dwarfish kind of way; what you eat if you are stuck up a mountain, I suppose
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| Allium senescens var spirale Spiral garlic |
| Greyish corkscrew leaves and dwarf habit make this an interesting edging plant
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| Allium siculum |
| See under Nectaroscordum
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| Allium sphaerocephalon Roundheaded leek/ drumstick allium |
| Guess what!, it looks like a purple drum stick, easy and pretty to about 18 - 24 inches. Unique to Avon Gorge in UK
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| Allium stipitatum album |
| Pretty and easy, every beginners favourite with its great big white drumsticks
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| Allium tuberosum Garlic chives |
| Combines flavour of both in one 18" leaf , needs rich damp soil and space for its roots. Delicious
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| Allium unifolium |
| Low growing one for people who want every kind of Allium
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| Allium ursinum Ransoms |
| English native suddenly become trendy, use young lvs in salads, cover lamb joint with larger lvs. Kitchen will reek of garlic for a week
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| Allium vineale Crow garlic |
| Wild native version of chives, possibly even more attractive as a garnish but otherwise sharing all the culinary attributes of fuse wire
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| Ecballium elaterium Squirting Cucumber |
| Inedible, tender per medicinal herb whose habit of ejaculating seeds has led to plethora of obscene nicknames, how many can YOU think of on a wet Sunday afternoon?
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