General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 24-32 inches
Leaves: Fragrant
Other: die back at or shortly after flowering... fragrance released when crushed
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Green
Multi-Color: White, yellow, and red
Other: Greenish white, hanging, bell-shaped, florets tinged plum to pink.
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Underground structures: Bulb
Uses: Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Dynamic Accumulator: K (Potassium)
Ca (Calcium)
Na (Sodium)
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Propagation: Seeds: Sow in situ
Other info: with favorable conditions may become invasive
Propagation: Other methods: Bulbs
Pollinators: Bees
Various insects

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Common names
  • Mediterranean Bells
  • Sicilian Honey Garlic
  • Sicilian Honey Lily
  • Ornamental Onion
  • Sicilian Garlic
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Allium siculum
  • Synonym: Trigonea sicula
  • Synonym: Nectaroscordum siculum

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Location: my garden, Utah
Date: spring 2018

Date: 2018-05-24
Location: KALAMA WA
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Location: KALAMA WA
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Location: Missouri zone 6a
Date: 2022-05-22
Location: My garden in St Louis
Date: 2015-05-25
My plant is listed as Nectaroscordum siculum bulgaricum

Date: 2024-05-02
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2011-05-16
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2012-04-06
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2021-06-12
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2021-06-12

Date: 2022-05-17
Location: Riverhead, NY
Date: May 2016
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2012-04-06
Location: Maine
Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2008-05-21
Location: My garden - Arvada, Colorado zone 5
Date: May
Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2019-04-25
Allium siculum - Honey Garlic 006
Location: Twisp
Date: 2016-05-17
Location: Holehird garden, Cumbria, UK
Date: 2015-06-25
Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2008-05-18
Location: Maine
Location: Pacific Northwest
Date: 2011-06-06
Location: Pacific Northwest
Date: 2011-06-06
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2008-06-01
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Location: Peterborough, ON, Canada
Date: 2015-08-14

Date: 2012-06-02
Location: Heathcote Ontario Canada
Date: Late summer
Allium siculum  vertical seed heads
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2021-05-29
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2008-06-01
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Location: z6a MA, My Garden
Date: 2012-05-22
Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2010-10-21
Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2010-05-30
Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2008-05-16
Location: My garden in Kalama, Wa. Zone 8
Date: 2014-10-11
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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2012-04-14
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2016-04-25
Location: Hortus Camera Lapidea 
Date: 2023-04-30
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2012-04-14
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Comments:
  • Posted by jmorth (central Illinois) on Dec 6, 2011 1:25 AM concerning plant:
    Unique presentation worthy of observation- the nodding flowers (in loose umbels) are pendent (hanging) at first, but become erect on fruiting.
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