Summer Beauty and Serendipity Allium - Early Foliage Garden Stars - April 2025

I started my new garden with Summer Beauty Alliums.  They're really great.  Since then, I've found something I like a tiny-bit better:  Serendipity Alliums.  They bloom later in the year.  And for longer.   (Turns out, there's a third variety - Millenium - that sort-of fits in between these two.)

Over the years, I've grown and divided both Summer Beauty and Serendipity and placed them around the garden.  Each of the past few Falls, I've divided the Serendipity clumps.  Starting with two, I now have five.  All IB2DWs.  

Now, I'm drawn towards the Serendipity due to the bloom time and length, I still have a bunch of Summer Beauties in the garden.  And, guess what?  They're early Spring stars.  A bunch of my garden hasn't woken-up yet.  Hostas are in the ground.  Peonies are just little red tips.  Astilbes and ferns are showing their first few shoots.  

But allium clumps?  Their green, strap-like foliage has already arrived.  

See below for some Summer Beauty Alliums in the front porch bed:

And, here below, are three Serendipity Alliums popping up in Spring.  

In the backyard, I went away from these, but as I correct and finish some of my garden edits, I'm going to put more of these in the back beds.