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Allium ampeloprasum, wild leek, is where leeks, elephant garlic, and pearl onions come from. It can bloom at 6 feet high!
Allium amplectens 'Graceful Beauty' has pure white flowers with purple anthers forming heads about 3 inches across.
Allium atropurpureum has many star shaped, warm purple florets held in upward facing half domes about the size of a tennis ball.
Allium 'Red Eye'/'Silver Spring' has tight heads of fragrant, white, star-like flowers with dark purple ovaries surrounded by a flush of pink.
Allium beesianum is a rare species from China with blue, nodding umbels above grass-like foliage.
Allium Double Bubble Blend offers spheres of light purple and white for a great display in the late spring garden.
Allium 'Rosy Dream' produces distinctive, fuzzy, lavender pink (rather than purple or white) spherical flower heads on stems about 12-18 inches high.
Allium cepa 'Snowball White' is a beautiful edible onion known for its white colour and deliciously spicy flavour.
Allium cepa 'Sturon' is an award-winning Spanish onion with sweet and full-flavoured yellow flesh and straw-coloured skin.
Allium cepa 'Walla Walla' is a famous onion prized for its versatility, large, round size, sweet flesh, and yellow skin.
Allium cernuum is a light pink nodding onion native to BC that is extremely hardy, edible, and deer resistant.
Allium cernuum 'White Dwarf' is a compact form of the BC native with exquisite, pure white flowers on shyly nodding heads to 8-10 in. high.
Allium cernuum 'White Master' is a taller, white form of the B.C. native with exquisite, nodding flowers.
Allium chloranthum 'Yellow Fantasy' has open flower heads like exploding fireworks of yellow to greenish yellow.
Allium chloranthum is a rare species from Lebanon and southern Turkey with open flower heads like exploding fireworks of yellow to greenish yellow.
Allium convallarioides is a rare species with delicate, bell-shaped, white flowers held in a loose sphere.
Allium cristophii looks like a firework of tiny lavender pink flowers exploding in heads up to 15 inches wide!
Allium cyaneum forms clumps of violet blue, pendant shaped flowers above fine foliage in June and July.
Allium cyathophorum var. farreri resembles our native A. cernuum but with darker, rose pink to purplish pink flowers.
Allium flavum has open flower heads like exploding bright yellow fireworks.
Allium giganteum has huge, tightly formed, round, softball-sized inflorescences comprised of small lilac purple florets on tall stems.
Allium hirtifolium var. album is a four foot tall species with spheres of white.
Allium 'Early Emperor' is an early-blooming, large-flowered ornamental onion that blooms with late tulips, late daffodils, camas, and bluebells.
Allium macranthum is a rare species of wet habitats with delicate, pendulous, bell-shaped, pink to purple-pink flowers in a loose cluster.
Allium maximowiczii is an ornamental onion that somewhat resembles a tall chives but with silver-blue leaves resembling blue fescue.