Slimleaf Onion Bulbs (Allium amplectens) - Pre-Order for Fall 2025 (10 Ct.)

Edible and extremely drought tolerant

Pre-Order for Fall 2024 Shipping (Shipping starts late October 2025).

Naturally occurring from southern BC southward to California, slimleaf onion arises in the spring with thin, non-descript leaves, gradually producing bulbous swollen flower buds, wrapped within semi-transparent leaf sheaths. These leaf sheaths open to reveal perfect pom-pom umbels of star-shaped white to pinkish flowers, attracting numerous small bees, gentle solitary predatory wasps hungry for nectar, syrphid flies, and tiny pollen-gorging beetles.

Reaching up to about a foot in height, slimleaf onion tolerates “winter-wet, summer-dry” soils (including both rocky ground as well as heavy clay soils) but it tends to prefer very hot, dry, summer conditions during which it goes dormant to conserve moisture. This plant is very much deer resistant and quite showy. 

An interesting detail with this plant is that during flowering the lower leaves tend to dieback and wither away into the undergrowth leaving the impression of “floating” flowers within a grassy sward. Excellent as a beautiful contrasting companion plant for things like barestem biscuit root and Oregon sunshine in “gravel gardens,” or for planting as small drifts within an existing meadow. 

Pre-order for fall shipping (beginning in late October -- on a first order in -- first order out basis). 

--We offer these in units of 10 bulbs--

PLEASE NOTE ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:

Shipping begins in late October through December. Orders that include both seeds and bulbs may ship in two separate stages (with seeds shipping asap and bulbs shipping in the fall).

We are trying to add additional later harvest bulb species to our inventory as quickly as we can, but if you already have an active bulb order, please email us if you would like to add additional species to it.

This is an annual herculean effort for us as a small business -- we are unable to accommodate specific shipping dates.

We love hearing from you, but emailing us to inquire about order status in the middle of the shipping season slows your order down -- we're a small team with limited capacity! If you have not received your order by the late stage of our shipping window (early December), please do reach out for an update.

Due to phytosanitary restrictions, we are unable to ship bulbs to Canada.