Common name: Bride’s Onion
Flower colour: pure white
Flowering period: April – May
Average plant height: 30 cm
Planting depth to base of bulb: 10 cm
Spacing between bulbs: 15 cm
Type of bulb: bulb
Light requirements: full sun
Landscape uses: beds borders, rock gardens, and as cut flowers
This is a beautiful, profusely-flowering species with sweetly-scented, white, star-shaped flowers forming umbels between 7 and 10 cm across. The leaves are narrow and green. It is closely related to Allium cowanii, it has large flowers on stems 40 to 50 cm tall. Allium neapolitum ‘Grandiflorum’ is a cultivar of this species.
