Allium Bulbs

What Makes Our Allium Bulbs Special?

Breck's provides high-quality allium bulbs for sale directly from Holland! Our alliums are easy to care for and come in a wide array of shapes and sizes, from standard bulbs to giant allium bulbs to dwarf alliums, which are excellent for varied garden uses. Choose from a range of stunningly beautiful single varieties or go for an assortment with our sensational allium mixtures and collections!

What Are the Benefits of Allium Flowers?

Allium flowers don't find favor with deer, repel most insect pests and when planted alongside vegetables, will help protect them from insect damage. Alliums also provide one of the most effective ways to ensure continuing color and beauty in your garden after spring-flowering bulbs have faded. While you wait for the cheery blooms of summer flowers, it's easy to enjoy the outstanding features of alliums:
• Exceptionally easy to grow with little concern for soil conditions.
• Intriguing and unique blooms that are a delight to behold.
• Great ornamental value after flowering as the flower heads continue to provide an interesting display even after the colors have faded.
• Beautiful in dried arrangements.
• Ability to naturalize exceptionally well by multiplying year after year for increased beauty.
• Distasteful flavor for animals, so they won't eat any part of them.
• Attractive to hummingbirds!

Tips for Planting & Growing Allium Bulbs

Allium bulbs grow best in areas that receive 6-8 hours of full sun on a daily basis, but they will also do well in partially shaded spaces. Alliums can flourish in different soil types—from clay to loam, even sand, just as long as the soil drains well. Although, they do best with well drained, fertile soil and good moisture. Plant Allium bulbs in September or October about 8-10" deep. Most allium flowers start to bloom in mid to late spring and continue to spread color through midsummer (and sometimes well into the winter season if you're located in hardiness zones 3 through 9).

What Types of Flowers Do Alliums Pair Well With?

Alliums, sometimes called "ornamental onions", look best in the company of other summer bloomers. Sweet alyssum, rock cress, bachelor's buttons, coreopsis, sweet William, foxglove, baby's breath, daylily, iris, red hot poker, coralberry, barberry, Japanese Maple, Deutzia rosea, weigela, and Geranium pretense are just some of the companion plants that look fantastic with alliums.