Alliums August 25, 2013

The alliums are blooming.  These are called Texas Wild Onion alliums.  Some years I have huge clump of them.  Other years, just a few.  This year I have one lone clump.  In the photo below I have taken a close up of a flower.  It is blooming and already going to seed.  The leaves of the plant are edible.  We cut the up and use them on our baked potatoes.

Alliums spread by increase and by seed.  In the photo above and below you can see that a seed sprouted in the crevice of the cedar edging. It is happily growing in that inhospitable spot.