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- Ornamental - not always, but mostly purple
- Varieties with purple flowers
- Not all varieties bloom purple!
- After flowering, the color gradually disappears
- Tips
Most ornamental species bloom purple
Ornamental - not always, but mostly purple
Whether you call it Allium or Ornamental - it's probably like other gardeners, and you've fallen in love with it because of its purple flowers. But not always are the flowers of the ornamental purple. There are also exceptions.
Varieties with purple flowers
From lilac to purplish violet to magenta and lavender, almost everything is represented in the colors of the ornamental lilac. Thanks to the vast amounts of varieties that are now available, there are almost no limits to the wishes in terms of intensity, brightness and mixing ratio.
Here once well-known and widespread varieties of ornamental onion, which have different forms of a purple color - these varieties are perfect specimen plants:
Not all varieties bloom purple!
But if you've thought that ornamental lilies are only available in lilac-colored flowers, you're wrong. There are also these plants with white, yellow or even blue flowers. Thus you can create in your garden, for example, an arrangement of different blooming varieties.
Pure white flowers, for example, the varieties called 'Graceful Beauty' (March to April), 'Mount Everest' and 'Ivory Queen' on. With the golden onions and especially with the variety 'Jeannine' you get golden yellow accents in the garden.
These species are also interesting because of their flower color (s):
After flowering, the color gradually disappears
When the flowering time is over, the flower color evaporates slowly. The seeds form and the former inflorescence dries. He turns grayish to brownish. If you want to see the flower color also in autumn and winter, you should cut off the flowered flowers together with the stems and dry.
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Fantastically, the typical purple color of the ornamental lily looks next to yellow or orange flowering perennials! The purple literally lights it up.