Description
A stunning new species from the mountains of Uzbekistan. This has tightly-crammed, ball-heads of unique, dark, distinctly violet-tinged blue flowers – the deepest of the 17 or so blue-flowered Allium.
Happy in the garden, but it will need a very well-drained and sunny spot which is significantly drier in summer. An alternative is to lift it after flowering and dry it off but it will not grow well in shade, nor in humus-rich or wet soils.
A rare new introduction but the intensity of the blue-violet colouring makes this demand a spot in the collection of the connoisseur.
