As garden retailers gear up for the summer bulb-planting season, there’s one question that's caught my attention: Can you plant allium bulbs in February? There’s a surprising number of bulbs you can ...

It's easy to appreciate why the large-flowered border allium has become such a popular plant. Cultivars such as Globemaster, Purple Sensation and Firmament are plants of great beauty, and almost ...

The Awesome Allium Collection comprises six different hybrids, each one a stellar performer, including ones I have been planting for years in my garden. Allium christophii (the star of Persia) ...

The Symphony of Spring and Awesome Alliums Collections were such a huge hit last year that we felt it necessary to make them available again for those who didn’t get the chance to try them since they ...

The compost heap is now a tangle of spent squash and courgette plants, of tired beans and peas, skewered with broken canes and hazel sticks. The veg patch is clear of summer: it’s allium time. I grow ...