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Nectaroscordum siculum ssp. bulgaricum |
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| Synonym(s) |
Allium bulgaricum |
| Common name |
Sicilian honey lily |
| Family |
alliaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial bulb (Z5-10) |
| Flowers |
purple (late spring) |
| Size |
4' |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
Reminds us of some fritillaries, with its dusky purple pendant flowers on tall stalks. Makes quite a voluminous mass of strappy leaves in spring. Ours grow in the raised bed within our side garden.
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: side garden About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Etka | Jul 22, 2008 | Do you only grow this for the flowers? How odd! Most people in my area (I'm from Bulgaria) use it as seasoning. My grandma grows it in the yard where the veggies are. I don't know any recipes with fresh leaves (even though I've heard it's good in salads), but this is how we use it: the leaves are mixed with salt in equal proportions and grinded. Then dried in a shady place. I like to sprinkle fresh tomatoes or cucumbers with this mix only and eat them. It's also a good addition to baked potatoes.
Thanks Etka! It's great to learn new things about the plants I grow. It sounds like they're used a bit like chives. Can you harvest fresh leaves without hurting the plant? I leave them to wither away, like I do with other bulb plants. |
| Etka | Jul 30, 2008 | I don't know how chives is used, my dictionary says it's some sort of allium. We only use the leaves. I asked my grandma - she told me leaves must be harvested before the plant blooms. She also suggested you cut only the thickest and pulpiest ones, and the small ones you could leave, so that it doesn't look ugly. She was also very surprised when I told her you grow it for the flowers - she cuts almost everything, leaving only 2 or 3 plants to take their the seeds for the next year. |
| Adri | Sep 05, 2009 | Have just bought nectaroscordum bulbs just for the flowers. Though I am from Romania, next to Bulgaria, we don't grow these plants here. I was impressed by the crown of flowers they make. Do they always have hanging flowers, don't they stick up?
I believe the flowers always dangle down, at least for this species. |
| Tina (Australia) | Nov 02, 2009 | It's late Spring here and I spotted some dangling buds rising above rampant groundcover daisies and I remembered the Allium type bulbs I planted some years ago, decided this was not the right spot for them and moved them to another part of the garden. These, now about to open up must be remnant bulbs from the original, now large enough to bloom.
Oddly enough, I was going through some discarded bulb labels and found 'Nectaroscordum siculum' and associated it with my recent find, dangling away above the daisies. Your pictures are very helpful to me Cheers Tina |
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