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Allium senescens 'Blue Eddy'


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Allium 'Blue Eddy' has twisty and twirly bluish foliage topped in late summer with lavender pink spheres. A great ornamental onion for the sun garden.


Description:
Ornamental onions offer intriguing spherical or egg-shaped inflorescences comprised of hundreds of tiny flowers. Allium 'Blue Eddy' has really attractive mounds of twisted, linear, bluish foliage that seem to swirl and twirl and spin. The lilac pink, spherical flower heads appear in late summer and bloom into fall. A distinctive and interesting ornamental plant in both flower and foliage for the front of the border or rock gardens.


Common Name: Spiral Onion

Family: Amaryllidaceae (The Amaryllis Family)

Zone Hardiness: 3-9

Light: Full Sun, Part Sun

Height: 12-24"

Width: 4-8"

Primary Bloom Colour: Purple

Secondary Bloom Colour:

Class: Deciduous

Type: Perennial

Bloom Time: Late Summer

Soil Moisture: Average, Dry

Stem Colour:

Fragrance: No

Berries: No

Benefits: Bees, Butterflies

Deer Resistant: Yes

BC Native: No

Native Habitat: Deep soils.

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Geogrpahical Origin: Europe and Africa - Europe and Western Russia

Asia and the Pacific - North Central and Eastern Asia

Asia and the Pacific - Asia - China and Japan

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