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Allium moly |
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| Common name |
lily leek; golden garlic |
| Family |
alliaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial (Z3-9) |
| Flowers |
yellow (late spring) |
| Size |
9-18" |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
| Cultural notes |
well drained soil; deer-resistant |
Attractive flowering onion with loose clusters of yellow stars on stalks above lax strappy blue-green leaves. They are especially effective in mass plantings. Not that I've accomplished that in our garden: I have a single flowering plant, which somehow survived in unidentified form in our nursery area for six years after I thought it had perished (which makes for eight years after I started them from seed). A good case for just buying a bag of bulbs rather than trying to grow them from seed: these are fairly commonly available. Still, I'm happy to add it to my plant collection. It supposedly self-seeds, as well as spreading by offsets, so perhaps I'll attain that mass planting after another half-dozen years!
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| | Foliage looking perky in late April |
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| | ...and going into decline in mid-June |
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. About my plant portraits
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- Seeded pot outdoors Dec04; several seedlings Spring06
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