Allium carinatum subsp. pulchellum
Purple keeled garlic
Also known as Allium pulchellum, Allium cirrhosum
- Height × spread
- 0.15m × 0.1m
- Position
- Full sun
- Hardiness
- Cold to -15C (RHS H5)
- Flowers
- Summer
Availability
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About this plant
A jolly-looking plant that flowers during July and August. It produces irregular conical heads of flowers that open to produce individual blooms that dangle from short slim stems. The flowers form tiny, plump, close-lipped bells that carry long white protruding stamens. This will set seed and can grow in pavement cracks. Delightful to let these seed where they will, pulling up those you don't want. Once dead the heads remain but turn greeny-white and remain an interesting feature.
- Flower colour
- Mauve
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Green, White
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- No
- Shape
- Cone
- Height
- 0.15m
- Spread
- 0.1m
- Season of interest
- Summer
- Flowers in
- Summer
- Evergreen
- Deciduous
- Garden style
- Small scale garden, Gravel garden
- Sun or shade
- Likes full sun
- Soil type
- Loam (normal)
- Soil pH
- All types
- Drainage
- Well drained soil
- Hardiness
- Cold to -15C (RHS H5)
- Borders & containers
- Borders
- Use for
- Deer resistant, Rabbit resistant, Bee attraction, Butterfly attraction
- Maintenance
- Easycare – low/no maintenance
- Hazards
- No
AutumnNow
Autumn · Planting
Remove offsets to create new plants
Offsets are small plants or shoots that develop around the parent plant. They should have developed a root system of their own before they are detached. They can be planted directly, or grown in pots if so small they could be 'lost' in the garden.
Spring
Spring - late · Outdoors
Feed with slow release fertiliser
Apply a general purpose slow release fertiliser, spreading it around the root area of the plant as it is coming into growth. (Or apply a liquid feed at regular intervals throughout the growing season.)
This is a simple way to provide a nutrient boost as a single annual procedure.
Spring-Autumn · Outdoors
Water during dry periods
For plants in the ground, when there has been little or no rain for a period of 7-10 days and the soil is dry, give it a deep watering and repeat weekly until there is a downpour of rain. Check plants in pots more frequently, especially in hot weather.
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