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Maggi Young

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Re: Allium 2008
« Reply #15 on: August 07, 2008, 11:53:48 PM »
Super, Oleg, many thanks!
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Re: Allium 2008
« Reply #16 on: August 08, 2008, 11:57:57 PM »
Still another allium I have taken a picture of today.
Allium fuscoviolaceum
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Re: Allium 2008
« Reply #17 on: August 11, 2008, 09:06:04 AM »
Every week seems to give another allium flowering
Allium ericetorum
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Re: Allium 2008
« Reply #18 on: August 11, 2008, 11:42:42 AM »
My goodness, what a fine selection of Allium you have , Oleg.... you really like them, don't you? 
It has given me an idea for a nickname for you....... ::) ;)
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Re: Allium 2008
« Reply #19 on: August 11, 2008, 01:06:57 PM »
Yes I do like them. I recon I have appr. 70 species. But I like everything bulbous. The problem is bulbs mainly flower in spring & autumn. What is left for summer? You guessed it right
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Re: Allium 2008
« Reply #20 on: August 11, 2008, 01:19:11 PM »
Maggi,

If you're the one who labelled Oleg as an "onion farmer", that seems a little harsh?  There are far more to Allium than just onions you know?
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Re: Allium 2008
« Reply #21 on: August 11, 2008, 01:23:42 PM »
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The problem is bulbs mainly flower in spring & autumn. What is left for summer? You guessed it right
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If you're the one who labelled Oleg as an "onion farmer", that seems a little harsh?  There are far more to Allium than just onions you know?
Yes, Paul, it was I who gave Oleg his nickname.... I thought it rather amusing that a man with so very many Allium species in his collection would be termed an onion farmer  :D   Sorry if my joke has gone astray! :-[ :-* :-*
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Re: Allium 2008
« Reply #22 on: August 11, 2008, 01:26:56 PM »
This reply from Paul reminds me of the late (great) Wayne Roderick, who referred to Ian and I  as " you miserable erythronium growers"...... we were delighted with that soubriquet from Wayne.... it was the equivalent of having a cartoon made of you! fame at last!! :-X ;) ;D 8)
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Re: Allium 2008
« Reply #23 on: August 11, 2008, 10:13:47 PM »
Wow! So, I'm popular, aren't I?
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Re: Allium 2008
« Reply #24 on: August 11, 2008, 10:29:43 PM »
Bringing these photos to us, Oleg, I should certainly think you are! :-*
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Re: Allium 2008
« Reply #25 on: August 20, 2008, 12:07:16 PM »
Allium amplectens from last week:

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Re: Allium 2008
« Reply #26 on: August 20, 2008, 12:18:56 PM »
Allium victorialis from earlier this summer

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Re: Allium 2008
« Reply #27 on: August 20, 2008, 11:08:42 PM »
Oleg

 What is the origin of your A.ericetorum? By chance does the flower stem come up spiraled and eventually straighten out over the course of the summer? And just a few blue-grey leaves?

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Re: Allium 2008
« Reply #28 on: September 08, 2008, 09:13:12 AM »
Aaron, sorry for the delay with the answer. Just have missed your post. A. ericetorum is from Italy. Leaves are green for my plants and I haven't seen a spiralling trend with them. May be a subsp.?
2 more alliums for today looking somewhat similar from far away, but still different
Allium canadense
Allium tuberosum
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Re: Allium 2008
« Reply #29 on: September 08, 2008, 09:43:41 AM »
I have this fear of onions in the garden, having been unable to eradicate a particularly nasty one that spread rapidly throughout my whole garden - I moved to avoid it.

It is great to be able to enjoy Allium from afar through the Forum.

Oleg are your two Allium well controlled or invasive?  The bees certainly seem to like them.
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