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Wed, Aug 1, 12 at 19:06
| Hi I have a question/problem with alliums
I bought and planted about 20 Allium schubertii approx 8 years ago. Every year they have come back without fail. In the same bed and scattered around my yard are L. Black Beauty, L. Casa Blanca, an old Martagon, some tigers that I hybridized myself, and little spring bulbs like daffodils, fritillaries, chionodoxa, hyacinths. They all came up so I have to think it was not an animal feeding on an allium if it passed up the tastier stuff. This year - no A. schubertii, in the main bed where there were 10 or more, nor in other beds around the yard. I think 1 came up and it looked really weak and had just a small bloom. I had some A. Everest that came up and barely bloomed, and a few unknown purple ones that are smaller than Globemaster - they all looked weak and small. What would hit just alliums and not other things? I will say that this year the bulbs have all born smaller flowers and are shorter - last winter there was no snow cover and its been super hot and dry this summer. Thanks for any thoughts on how to save what I have
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| No bulb lives forever. Shouldn't they be dormant by now? If yes, why don't you just dig one up to see what is going on with the bulb? Maybe they are rotting for some reason? |
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| Check for voles anyway. Although almost any catalog will tell you that Alliums are deer and vole proof, they are not. I lost a bed of over 100 Globemasters a few years back to voles during the winter. The bed was completely tunneled through, and there was even a nest down in there. So, apparently, at least some voles do develop a taste for alliums. |
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| There was a thread here earlier this spring re.the very poor showing of alliums in many areas - mine grew but didn't bloom, except for a few volunteers that have escaped the 'patch'. Several other posters had the same experience. Probably the really bizarre weather this spring. I imagine mine will be back next year. Jan |
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