Looking lovely in the late July garden is the rare North American native Allium oxyphyllum. This little-known species hails from the shale barren (eroded, and often baking steep slopes of degraded shale) region of Virginia and West Virginia, where it is extremely rare, with a global G2 rank. The 1′ tall x 1′ wide clump has been a great rock garden plant for us the last 25 years. Despite growing naturally in shifting acidic shale, it thrives in our beds amended with alkaline Permatill gravel. For years, it was mistakenly treated as a form of the more common Allium cernuum.
Enjoy your emails. I have cottage in Conneaut OHIO – 44030 and want to attract bees and butterflys and humming birds – what should I plant?
If you go to this link, you can then click on “insect attracting plants”, or plants for birds, and then search for plants that match your hardiness zone.