Planting 5 Sicilian Honey Garlic Bulbs - Allium Siculum - October 2025

#13 on my 2026 to-do list was to do something that I used to do regularly:  plant some Fall bulbs.

Here's how I described it when I drafted my list:

13. Plant fall bulbs. For my first few gardening seasons, I was pretty good about planting fall bulbs. Alliums and tulips, mostly. But, I got away from it. Get back to it this Fall. And…Try a bulb lawn in front. Yes…a bulb lawn. Or, at least a patch of bulb lawn as an experiment.

When I posted my mid-Summer check-in on my list, I marked this Incomplete.

Since then, I planted 95 crocus corms.  And 14 dwarf daffodil bulbs.  And six bulbs of (gifted) hardneck garlic.  

One of the plants that I took note of this season and told myself (self...you should plant more of these) were the Sicilian Honey Garlic (alliums) that I have in a few places in the backyard.  It looks like I planted 15 of these bulbs in 2021.  And, mostly forgot about them.  Here it is in bloom in 2023. 

I found a five pack of bulbs - labeled Allium Siculum at Menards.  I grabbed one.  Should have grabbed more. 

Longfield Gardens has a post up about the plant that is worth the read.  

I opted to put these five bulbs in the pizza oven bed.  Three, in betwix the Lady's Mantle in the front of the bed.  

And the other two tucked in between the Summer Beauty Allium around the tree swing tree (Northern Red Oak):

Planting Fall bulbs?  Check.  And check.