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And today, as we get to the end of the Allium season, I just wanted to do a recap of

varieties that have flowered from May until now

in early August. And if you are Allium fanatic as I am, and I'll explain why I am in a minute,

it just gives you a really nice succession. And I'm just moving on to working on a new book,

actually. And one of the things that it's going to working on a new book, actually.

And one of the things that it's going to focus on is colour, no surprise there,

but also on this idea of succession of colour.

So that if you're a colour addict, what you can do to ensure your garden has something colourful, really all the way through from sort of ideally mid-Feb until mid-November.

And Alliums really play such an important role in that.

And how I think of it is it's like they're in a relay race, and I'll talk more about this in a later episode, but they're in a relay race where they're handing the colour baton from one species to another without dropping it.

And that is literally how I think of it.

And that's why I thought I would name, I think it's 12 varieties of Allium.

I could be wrong there. I haven't counted them actually, but that will really ensure that you have

one of these crazy sparklers in your garden all the way through from when the last tulip drops

its petals in the middle of May to when the first dahlia

opens its petals, its flowers, sort of end of July, beginning of August.

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