VMC Native Garden PerennialAllium cernuum
Nodding Onion
Light: Full sun to Part Shade
Water: Dry to Medium
Soil: Adaptable to dry sites
Hardiness Zones: 4 – 8
Height: 1 – 3 ft when flowering
Spacing: 12 in
Bloom Times: Summer
Bloom Color: White, Pink
Garden Use: Native and pollinator garden, butterfly garden, cottage garden, rock garden, wildflower garden.
Benefits: Delicate, nodding, bell-shaped flowers rise above green clumps of blade-shaped leaves. Attracts pollinators. Edible herb.
Tolerates drought and sandy or rocky soil. Deer and rabbit resistant.
Q U I C K T I P S
The green foliage of Allium cernuum (Nodding Onion) arises in early spring with leaves that almost look like a clumping sedge, covering the ground with early season greenery. By early summer, tall stalks topped with arched (nodding) buds soon open to delicate pink and white blooms that attract many different pollinators. These magnificent perennials in the the onion family, bloom all summer long, delivering striking vertical interest in the perennial garden bed as well as long-lasting flowers alive with pollinators.
A great deer and rabbit resistant, easy-to-grow perennial that will bring years of blooms and wonder in the perennial garden.