Allium Eros

Description

Allium Eros has attractive umbels of pink flowers on short stems. Allium Eros is not your usual ball shape and is a relatively new variety with a distinctive flower shape. A superb all round garden plant and exceptionally good for containers.

Cultivation instructions

Allium Eros is superb for attracting bees and butterflies and will naturalise very well in most soils that are well drained. Feed with bone meal or similar during the leaf and flowering stage to ensure future good growth and performance. Alliums perform very well when planted with early flowering perennials.

Allium Eros prefers to be grown in the sheltered semi shaded areas of the garden in a well drained, fertile soil. Cultivate soils to a depth of 20cms and plant bulbs 15cms deep and 10-15cms apart. In heavy soils such as clay add grit or humus matter to help with drainage. In sandy soils add organic matter to help with fertility.

Protect early growth in the spring from slugs and snails and remove dead heads after flowering (if not using as a dry flower) to get the best from them.  Ideal foods are well rotted manures, tomato feed and bone meal.

Care tips:

Keep Allium Eros well fed during the growing season and if possible mulch borders with well rotted manure or compost over the winter.

Growing Information

Flowering Height:  10-12″ (25-30cm)

Flowering Period: June-July

Soil type: Free draining fertile soils that are neutral to alkaline.

Aspect: Ideal in semi shade but will also grow well in full sun.

Scented: No significant scent.

Planting Depth: 5-8cms

Spacing: 10cms apart.

Our tip: Alliums are ideal to grow in borders with herbaceous plants, alliums and early flowering lilies. They can also be used as cut flower or for dried flower arrangements.

Alliums are amongst the last of the spring bulbs to flower so will extend that blaze of colour into your garden. The later flowering varieties are also ideal for planting with wallflowers.

Full growing instructions provided

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