skip to main content

Perennials Bulbs Alliums

Interesting stalk on this allium?

rouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a)

10 months ago

last modified: 10 months ago

It is hard to get a good picture of the 'wide' stalk on this allium. Given the very large size of the flower I would bet it is either a Giganteum or Ambassador (which I have purchased previously). The best way I can think of to describe it is that it looks like an electrical cord ;). (This same bulb had the same stem last year as well.)

Featured Answer

floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK

10 months ago

A good example of fasciation. That would also account for the big bloom.

Sort by:Oldest

Comments (13)

rouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a)
Original Author
10 months ago
last modified: 10 months ago
Why thank you @floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK...learned something new today.
Related Discussions
Allium Schubertii
Q
Comments (8)
Yes, it sounds like your tall ones are mislabeled. My first ones I put in a couple of years ago were from mail order but I don't remember which one, maybe McClure and Zimmerman. The ones I purchased last fall were from the local "box" store and quite a bit cheaper, needless to say. They are still in fairly tight bud so don't know if they are correctly labeled; the foliage looks correct. I love my schubertiis and also A. christophiis. I use the dried stem/flowerheads as dried ornaments and toss a few in the garden for the winter for the little birds to hop around. The seed pods open up wide but don't easily drop seed so no problem with them coming up all over. If it is available at the right time, I cut a stem and enter it in the local flower show; it really attracts alot of attention.
...See More
Discount - Interested in Globemaster Alliums ?
Q
Comments (1)
Johnscheepers.com sells them for less than $6 a piece. Must buy only 6. So I'd go on your own and buy from scheepers.
...See More
Dried Out Allium Flowers
Q
Comments (2)
My gardener friend spray paints the dried-up flowers! Any color that blends with the rest of the flower bed.
...See More
When can you tell that allium seeds are (going to be?) 'viable'?
Q
Comments (5)
when the stalk is declined to the point of being a useless hulk.. then presumably the seed if done getting anything from said dead stalk .. just cut them... rubber band some together.. and hang them upside down in the garage or somewhere... with a box lid under them..and leave them be.. until you see seed in the lid.. then clean the rest and package them up ... back when i was a kid.. we would dry them like that.. then spray paint them wild 1970s colors for an indoor winter flower display .. in a dry vase ... now im wondering what else we stuck in that vase ... ken
...See More
Patti Chicago Zone 5b/6a
10 months ago
@floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK thanks to you I learned what I always called "twins". lol
rouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a) thanked Patti Chicago Zone 5b/6a
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
10 months ago
happens in all kinds of plants..including hosta... ken
rouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a)
Original Author
10 months ago
When you see fasciation in a hosta please post a picture.
cyn427 (z. 7, N. VA)
10 months ago
Fasciation on a hosta: fasciation
gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
10 months ago
gdinieontarioz5
10 months ago
As a child I used to look for big oval dandelions with ribbon-like stems.
FrozeBudd_z3/4
10 months ago
Allium 'Twister" ... come on now folks, LOL.
robert567
10 months ago
Will the split off divided bulbs have the same fascinating fasciation?

Leave a small amount of stem when it dies down or put a stick next to it. Dig up the bulb at the end of August and maybe you can replant three babies.
rouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a) thanked robert567
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
10 months ago
Unlikely. The parent bulb might not do it again next year either. But no harm in marking and experimenting.
rouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a) thanked floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
rouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a)
Original Author
10 months ago
I never dig up my alliums.

But having said that the one in question had the same fasciation in 2022.
LaLennoxa 6a/b Hamilton ON
9 months ago
Yes, I learned about fascination a few years back from this forum (maybe from floral!) when I saw something similar happen in my garden. This spring, one of my crown imperial fritillarias came up that way - it looked like three had been fused together!

Related Stories

FALL GARDENING Great Design Plant: Low-Maintenance Allium Cernuum

By Curtis Adams

Nodding onion is a Mid-Atlantic native bulb with beautiful midsummer blooms

LANDSCAPE DESIGN 5 Berry-licious Shrubs to Plant Now for Winter Interest

Showy color during snow season? You bet. These shrubs will wake up a garden with colorful berries when other plants are asleep

GARDENING GUIDES 10 Cold-Hardy Succulents for Cool-Season Interest

By Noelle Johnson Landscape Consulting

These attractive plants shrug off colder temperatures, and many can be brought inside in containers in extra-chilly climates

GARDENING GUIDES Plant Fritillary Bulbs for Something a Little Different

By Marianne Lipanovich

These unusual plants with unexpected colors and lance-like foliage add interest to lightly shaded garden beds

GARDENING GUIDES Great Design Plant: Yucca Glauca

By Susan J Tweit

Soapweed yucca's pale green leaves brighten the winter garden and add sculptural interest year-round

GARDENING GUIDES Great Design Plant: Please Bumblebees by Planting Baptisia Lactea

By Pollination Press LLC

Plant wild white indigo in central and southeastern U.S. gardens for its large white flower heads and early-spring interest

GARDENING GUIDES 8 Plants Bursting With Beautiful Fall Foliage

By J. Peterson Garden Design

Luscious berries, rich crimson leaves and stellar stalks show that nary a flower is needed for enthralling autumn gardens

GARDENING FOR BUTTERFLIES Great Design Plant: Giant Coneflower, a True Exclamation Point

By Benjamin Vogt / Monarch Gardens

Watch as towering stalks topped by yellow blossoms become a beacon for birds and insects in the midsummer garden

GARDENING GUIDES Great Design Plant: Dasylirion Quadrangulatum

By Noelle Johnson Landscape Consulting

The drought-tolerant Mexican grass tree adds dramatic interest to the Southwest garden

GARDENING GUIDES Celebrate the Browns, Tans and Golds of Fall and Winter Gardens

By Benjamin Vogt / Monarch Gardens

When designing gardens for cold weather, use plants with these subtle hues for visual interest

Sponsored

More Discussions

A Year of Bulbs

83

Gardenfit TV show on PBS and any others?

7

What to do with this very old hydrangea?

4

Outside the garden

3

Weed, or coneflower appendage?

6