House Leek

I am facinated by these things,due to a leaflet i picked up at my local Garden centre......

My only problem is i have got 5 now and..well..........What do i do with them?????

 

A great idea i heard a while ago creates an impressive display. If you can, get an old white pot kitchen sink. If not (which is likely) anything that is rectangular, fairly big and decorative will be fine. Plant the plants in it so they have spcae to grow. Around them place slatechips/gravel. After a few years it will fill up and you will have a sort of 'lawn' effect of these plants. it looked great

 

Thank you for this useful post.................:D

 

I grow these plants in every spare pot I have! My granny has a lot of them, it feels very much like home. I even have some planted in some old boots (not kidding). A more practical use I have found for them is to put them between the stones that old the ground of a slightly raised bed. They help "tying" the ground that kept running through the stones when watering, and they like the very freely draining place.
Or you can make miniature gardens with them in a pan. But promise not to put gnomes in it, as Vita Sackwille West said ;-)

 

I grow a few on a corrugated asbestos roof, they have been there for years.

If they grow in rich soil they get very bloated and grow out of character, they can survive on almost no soil, and tend to look better for it, I think.

But thats just me.

 

You can grow them in bricks - the engineering ones with holes through. Like Pete says, don't give them too much food. When mature, they put out some very weird looking flower heads. I love 'em!