Top 10 Alliums to Grow for Summer

Early summer displays simply aren't the same without alliums. Their spherical shape and vivid colours welcome early summer with gusto, adding texture and height to your borders.  These blooms reappear year after year, too! Great for those on a budget. Wondering which to grow in your gardens? Here are our top 10 alliums to grow for summer.  Image In order: Mount Everest, Violet Beauty, Millenium, and sphaerocephalon

Allium Mount Everest

We're starting off our list with an allium that ticks all the boxes. It's a pollinator favourite, fully hardy, and is a winner of the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Sitting on tall straight stems, Allium Mount Everest is a must for mid to back borders. Plus, their rare mountain top white shade adds to the unique edge of your gardens. What's not to love?! Allium Violet Beauty Another RHS Award of Garden Merit winner, with a RHS Plants for Pollinators award to boot! Allium Violet Beauty produces large round blooms in shades of deep purple. If you look at them up close, they are created by a mass of tiny star-shaped flowers. A superb choice for an elegant seasonal display.  Allium Millenium Allium Millenium is a late-flowering summer variety that will become one of your favourite flowers in the garden. They have the signature allium rounded flower head, each made up of tiny pinky-purple stars. Attracts pollinators aplenty. and can be left to die back to feed the birds with their seed heads. 

Allium sphaerocephalon Allium sphaerocephalon, also known as 'drumsticks', is an impressive variety of allium that has been widely beloved for the last few years. This allium is more compact compared to others, but they still pack a punch in the garden! They produce round green and purple/red flowers,