{"id":1396,"date":"2017-09-19T10:38:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T10:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/storage-of-allium-bulbs\/"},"modified":"2017-09-19T10:38:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T10:38:04","slug":"storage-of-allium-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/storage-of-allium-bulbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Storage of Allium bulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This question was asked by <span class=\"hubmaster_faq_author\"><br \/>\n&#8211; <em>Ann Myles<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"hubmaster_faq_blockquote\"><p>Each year I have spent a large amount on buying allium bulbs &#8211; they are planted in late autumn and bloom beautifully in the spring\/summer but if I leave them in the ground they never return the following year, so I always have to buy and plant more each year. I feel that I need to dig them up at the end of the season and maybe store them over winter rather like a tulip bulb that you wish to relocate the following year &#8211; any idea on how to do this if it is possible, or where do you think things are going wrong. I live in a very exposed site in the Cotswolds and our winters are quite wet and temperatures can go as low as -12 degrees on a regular basis. Thank you for your help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"hubmaster_faq_answer\">Hi there,<br \/>\nNo I would leave your alliums where they are, cut the seed head off and allow the foliage and stem to die back by themselves to feed the bulb. Alliums like a cold dormant phase so its best to leave them in. We do advise lifting them after the 3rd year and splitting them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/Allium-Bulb-Collection.html\">Allium Bulb Collection (Pack of 20 Bulbs) (SKU17627)<\/a><br \/>\nKind regards<br \/>\n<em class=\"hubmaster_faq_editor\">Loraine Hart<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This question was asked by &#8211; Ann Myles Each year I have spent a large amount on buying allium bulbs &#8211; they are planted in late autumn and bloom beautifully in the spring\/summer but if I leave them in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/storage-of-allium-bulbs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,55,33,56],"tags":[6,30],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allium-planting-care","category-alliums","category-faq","category-newsletter","tag-alliums","tag-garden"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}