Allium sikkimense
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Allium sikkimense• Click here to visit our Main Plant List page for current availability of this plant
• Common name: sikkim onion
• Flowering season: summer blooming
• Height: 6 inches
• Light requirements: full sun to half-a-day shade
• Soil requirements: average to rich soil that is well drained
• Water requirments: average
• Growth habit: grows as a small clump
• How to propagae: divide an older plant in spring
• Leaf type: thin grass-like leaves
• Ways to use it: grows well in a pot or planted in the ground
This low growing ornamental onion has sky blue flowers in summer. With its narrow leaves and low height, it is suitable for a rock garden or planted with other low growing flowers at the front edge of a bed. Once established, it is undemanding. It is also known as Allium kansuense. USDA Zones 6 - 8 in the East, Zones 6 - 9 in the West.