What is it? Sorry don't know many flowers!

They have finished flowering now and I can see the seeds developing. Will it flower again if i remove the flower and the long stem?

Thanks!

 

Hi Will and welcome to GC.

They look like Alliums to me ... do they smell of onion/garlic if you crush a leaf? They are a perennial so they will spread in time on their own.

 

yep, alliums I think gorgeous but not sure deadheading helps with these....just enjoy

 

Hi

Thanks for your replies, yes googled Alliums and that looks right to me.

Regards

Will

 

Will - I think what you have is Allium hollandicum. It won't flower again this year if you dead head it, but it will come back again next year. They are perennial and pretty hardy.

You can either leave the stem and seed head - its quite attractive. Or you can remove it and let it dry out and use it in a flower arrangement. You will get lots of little hard, round, black seeds. And you can grow more plants from this seed. But they will take three or four years to grow from seed to a bulb which is big enough to flower.

 

I leave the seed heads in the border - even when green they look good and as they dry up they go brown. Plus, they help me remember where I planted alliums when planting other things in autumn.