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I am so glad to see this plant of yours. Someone gave me a baby of this a few years ago and didn't know the name of it. I thought it was in the Allium famly.
Hi Donna -
So glad this helped you out, don't you just love it when one of those "no names" finally gets an ID?
This is a fun plant, it lives in my greenhouse with my succulents. The two flower stalks came out in January (I purchased it at The Ruth Bancroft Garden http://www.ruthbancroftgarden.org sale last October) and it looked like any old onion with the foilage dying down.
Here's a picture from July showing the two stems, one of which I cut off yesterday. Poor thing must be worn out from blooming forever.
So thats what I have! I had it in a hanging planter last year, its leaves hung way down maybe 3-4 feet. I brought it in for the winter, and the silly thing sent out a flower stalk. It had the flowers all along the stalk, grew longer and longer. It was in front of a window, this was in October of last year, it bloomed continuously til I hung it out in May this year. The flower stalk, because it was resting on a table, went back and forth as it grew, and when I put it very carefully outdoors, the tip was starting to die, but the entire flower stalk was easily 10 feet long! Its still outside, no new flowerstalk in sight. I'm almost afraid to bring it indoors again!
From comments I have read these are very interesting plants. I have not been able to find any anyhwhere. Will someone please tell me where I may obtain them?
Maudie, If you have trouble finding them, I can send them to you for postage. These are done blooming for now, but they did send up many flower spikes. The plants seem to be indestructable!
