Allium 'Gladiator'

Allium 'Gladiator' produces large lavender-blue florets with a sweet pungent scent in tight, globe-shaped heads the size of a softball atop 3–4' stems. This showy early summer flower is great with Bearded or Siberian Iris. Plant 3 bulbs per sq ft.

The genus Allium (the Latin means "garlic") offers colorful, distinctive, and long-lasting forms that are standouts in the early summer garden. Alliums are sun-lovers and prefer well-drained, even sandy, soil. Deer, mice, chipmunks, and related predators generally avoid this group, so you can plant with impunity. Tuck them among clumps of summer-flowering perennials where the Alliums' withering foliage will be hidden by the expanding perennials.

For more information on growing Allium, click Growing Guide.