It’s bulb planting time and alliums are a deer proof win. Did you know that you can have multiple different varieties that bloom at slightly different times and extend your allium season in the spring? I did a trial and timed out their blooms and figured out which ones are blue purple and which ones are red purple because I needed to know. something I didn’t expect is that the early varieties suffered some frost burn on their leaves and my key Takeaway is that I’ll always plant those towards the

The bulb planting has begun! And first in the ground are the alliums. I love alliums, as they’re perennial, meaning they will come back year after year and they will even multiply too. I already have lots of alliums in the garden, but I wanted to add some bigger varieties to mix in, so I picked up these two varieties from @crocus.co.uk These will start appearing out of the ground in early spring and flower late spring - early summer. However some allium varieties flower later in the summer like