Allium 'Bobblehead' - ORNAMENTAL ONION 'BOBBLEHEAH' (3' tall and robust)

Probably the most robust summer blooming Allium on the market!

Strong and vigorous clumps. Pale pink 3-3½" sphere, highly attractive to various insects, turn to ornamental seedheads.

Grayish foliage, the whole plants has strong onion/garlic and deters deer and rabbits, and just like many "onions" is edible.

Blooming time: mid summer-late summer
Size: 30-32" tall by 20-24" wide
USDA zones: 4 to 8
Culture: full sun, partial sun, half shade, average soils with average amount of nutrients (not lean), tolerant to many soil types (sandier, loam, clay). It tolerates heat, humidity and droughts.
Moisture Needs: medium (average) to medium-moist, medium-dry
Origin: selected by Walters Gardens, patented under PP36675, Proven Winner plant
Deer/rabbit resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: yes, various bees, butterflies, wasps
Attracts Hummingbirds: no 
Pot Size: round Proven Winner quart 4.25" x 5" deep pot

Combinations: Great garden plant, but not a plant for pollinator gardens. Vegetable gardens, edible gardens, possibly rain gardens (if the don't flood too often and the water runs away quickly), low maintenance plantings, deer resistant plantings, , pollinator gardens, cut flower gardens, public plantings. Due to it's adaptability goes well with majority of common native and non-native perennials and grasses. Anemone, Agastache, Actaea simplex, Aster, Chelone, Echinacea, Geum, Helenium, Helianthus, Heliopsis, Hemerocallis, Iris, Leucanthemum, Paeonia, Persicaria, Perovskia, Phlox, Physostegia, Rudbeckia, Silphium, Tradescantia, Veronicastrum virginicum and grasses like Andropogon gerardii, Panicum virgatum, Pennisetum, Muhlenbergia Schizachyrium,...

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