Onions for cut flowers? How to harvest + arrange with alliums
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Lets walk through my allium collection over roughly 8 weeks on the flower farm and look at how and when to harvest each type of allium for a good vase life, how to arrange with them and use them in bouquets, growing basics, and lots more. We're covering the following allium varieties in this video: Purple Sensation, Hair, Allium azureum, Allium nigrum, Allium bulgaricum, and Allium schubertii. I'm fairly partial to alliums; but they are also a fun addition to design work, come in a nice variety of shapes and sizes, and some of them naturalize well in the cut flower gardens!
Excellent video. Thank you from Ireland as always x
Wonderful, thank you!
Such helpful information for our cutting gardens. Thank you!
You are so welcome! 💖
Really great information about the allium. Thank you for sharing
I’m glad it was helpful to you! Thanks for being here 😄
Great information and lovely bouquets! I must add more alliums to my garden. . .
So must I! 🤣 I don’t think we will regret it!
I have Hair Allium for the first time this year and I just LOVE them, I also refer to them as adding a bit of funky design to my bouquets. I also grow the drumsticks but they bloom at the same time I am getting mega poppy pods and I don't find the drumsticks make enough of a difference to the poppy pods even with their purple hats.
What I find is the most helpful - for me - to create bouquets in my tiny growing area are the Ambassador and Globemaster Alliums. I just am smitten with them. They work as a nice centre to bouquets made with any variation of flowers splaying out from them and they took me from May 19th to right about now when I ran out of them. Although the final few weeks they had definitely lost their purple, looking more like a white and green allium. The Ambassador starts blooming just as the Globemaster finishes.
Oooh good point about the similarity of drumsticks in form to breadseed poppies! I am WITH you on large globe alliums as focals, they are just fantastic for that! Thanks for sharing the bloom period on Amassador and Globemaster, that is super helpful to me and I’m sure everyone else as well!
@@floristsonfarms Then I better get it right...the Globemaster blooms first with the Ambassador starting to bloom as the Globemaster finishes. I edited my comment as I had it backwards.😬 oops.
These are so fun!
Exactly! 😄🤩
Loved this video, thanks!
Wonderful, thanks Madeleine!
My favourite alliums are the Schubertii and Hair alliums. Globalmaster is awesome as well.
Apparently I need to add globemaster!
Thanks!
Thanks so much 💖
Love Alliums! I have the drumstick variety that I am waiting to flower. I have them in pots and I was grateful to here that they like the sun so I will be moving my pots to a sunnier position. It’s still middle of winter right now. I adore the Bulgaricum variety. That is gorgeous, and the funky ones, yes, amazing! Will be checking out the sensation as well. Thanks for sharing how to use them in arrangements and bouquets as well. Really helpful!
You are so welcome! They are so non-fussy for the most part and long-lasting in the vase, definitely worthy for a cut flower garden!
I was really looking forward to this video, thank you so much for such good information, I already have the drumstick and the schubertii alliums and am planning on adding lots more this fall! 😊
By the way I got my schubertii alliums at Costco last year, they were around $14 I believe for 10 bulbs, not sure if that’s a good price or not.
That’s actually similar to what I paid wholesale on mine! Not bad at all!