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Allium Violet Beauty

Common name: Ornamental onion

Tall, slender and aromatic, dome-shaped flowers across spring into summer

-10 to -15°C
Good Cut Flowers
Good for Pollinators

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30 for £13.00
just £0.43 each
60 for £18.00
just £0.30 each
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Award-winning variety with tall, 80cm stems bringing architectural impact to borders, gravel gardens and containers. Allium stipitatum ‘Violet Beauty’ in new to us for 2024 and chosen for the intensity of colour in its 10cm flowerheads which emerge in May and remain until June. After which equally beautiful seedheads are retained to further enhance your planting. Flowers are great for bumble bees and other pollinators and make a wonderful, aromatic inclusion in a vase. Allium stipitatum ‘Violet Beauty’ holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit for its dependable and outstanding performance in the garden. It prefers a spot in moist, well-drained soil of any kind and is drought tolerant once established. Plant in full sun with any aspect other than north facing. A hardy (H5), bulbous perennial which should not need any additional protection over winter throughout most of the UK.
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Key Information
Latin Name Allium stipitatum 'Violet Beauty'
Common Name Ornamental onion
Hardiness H5 (-10 to -15°C)
Colour Purple
Format Bulbs
Position Full-Sun
Height in Maturity (m) 0.80 m
Spread in Maturity (m) 0.30
AGM Yes
Soil Conditions Chalk Clay Loam Sand
Aspect East-facing, South-facing, West-facing
Drought Tolerant Yes
Good for pots Yes
Good for Rockeries Yes
Good for wildlife Yes
Good for pollinators Yes
Good for cutting Yes

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