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Permalink Reply by Rich Bishop on September 11, 2011 at 6:08pm

Yes, all of those tall aflatuense ones do great in heavier soils.         Globemaster, Purple Sensation, Gladiator, etc.   There are about a dozen of them in Brent and Becky's bulb catalog.    They even self sow so you can have lots in just 3 years-it doesn't take long from seed.  May I also recommend trying Eremurus, the foxtail lilly.     They get tall, are really spectacular, and need the same things as alliums do.

Permalink Reply by michelle haslam on September 11, 2011 at 8:57pm

They are really pretty when they are planted in between other things, bushes,bulbs, whatever.  The neat thing about them is once the flower has dried up you can actually spray paint it purple and you can enjoy it even longer