The giant alliums have put up their starbursts of flowers in our sidewalk treebeds — mostly purple, plus this one even-larger white specimen. These bulbs were planted a few years ago and seem quite happy to come back every spring.
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Sidewalk Greenspace on New York's Upper West Side
The giant alliums have put up their starbursts of flowers in our sidewalk treebeds — mostly purple, plus this one even-larger white specimen. These bulbs were planted a few years ago and seem quite happy to come back every spring.
I love the way the globes of these alliums intersect and overlap, like adjacent spherical pyrotechnic bursts.
That’s no moon — it’s a giant purple allium!