Allium named Mount Everest #4
by J McCombie
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Allium named Mount Everest #4
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J McCombie
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This piece has been featured in the FAA Group, "Macro Photography Only"
Well named, "Mount Everest" is a towering variety with baseball sized, glistening white flowers heads. Plant it in the middle of a patch of lavender-blue Nepeta ‘Walker’s Low’. This Allium towers in the garden, reaching heights up to 40" tall. Its pure white blooms are elegant and deer resistant. (Allium stipitatum). These 4-6″ umbels of pure white blooms have a unique role in any late-spring border that seeks some gravitas. Awarded the prestigious Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society. Pair with A. 'Purple Sensation' in thoughtfully spaced clusters, then stand back. The snow white blooms of 'Mount Everest' also make bouquets of tall Aquilegias and other purple Alliums even more spectacular. Late spring. Plant 3 per sq ft.
This new tall white Allium is very useful in late spring making a big dramatic show just as all your other bulbs are dying down. The blooms are snow white. Every family has its beauties. And yes, these are the best-looking members of the family of Allium, which includes onions, leeks and chives. (The word, Allium, means 'onion' in Latin.) Many Allium species are native to Iran, where many tulips also originate, and the edible Alliums have been cultivated and a staple of diets for over 10,000 years.
The beauty of the small lavender flowerheads of chives have always been a decorative highlight in herb gardens. But in recent years, gardeners have become fascinated with the larger Alliums, particular the giants. As always, the Dutch hybridizers took them into their stocks, and now we have a whole group of beautiful new flowering onions for gardens. Most bloom in late spring so they bridge the gap nicely between the tulip season and early summer bloom of peonies and poppies.
Experienced gardeners plant these giant Alliums in groups of several bulbs, set very close together. The foliage is not attractive for long, so it's important to plant them next to other perennials whose foliage will more or less cover the Allium's base. This way, the wonderful flower stalks rise up and tower over the other flowers for a wonderful period of bloom.
Allium stipitatum, Persian shallot, is an Asian species of onion native to central and southwestern Asia. Some sources regard Allium stipitatum and A. hirtifolium as the same species, while others treat A. stipitatum and A. hirtifolium as distinct. Allium stipitatum in the more inclusive sense occurs in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan. The epithet stipitatum means 'with a little stalk' referring to the ovary.
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