{"id":8950,"date":"2011-10-14T13:19:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T12:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8950"},"modified":"2011-10-13T14:18:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T13:18:19","slug":"alliums-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/10\/alliums-galore\/","title":{"rendered":"Alliums Galore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"amazon_ad_right\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;nou=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=alslikklworls&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;asins=B005R229CS\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Autumn is here, so time to plant the bulbs ready for next year. Anna&#8217;s Mum kindly offered to buy me some Alliums for my birthday. My birthday isn&#8217;t until December but we\u00a0couldn&#8217;t wait until then to plant them so I ordered some online and spent part of Wednesday afternoon in the garden planting them out.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how well they&#8217;ll do here. As I&#8217;ve said before we are &#8216;<a title=\"Extreme Coastal Gardening\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/extreme-coastal-gardening\/\">gardening on the edge<\/a>&#8216; here thanks to the <a title=\"Coastal Gardening - Soil\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/coastal-gardening-soil\/\">poor soil<\/a>, the <a title=\"Coastal Gardening - Wind\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/coastal-gardening-wind\/\">incessant winds<\/a> and the salt air but hopefully they&#8217;ll put on a good display. I&#8217;ve planted them in the new bed I dug next to the <a title=\"New Conservatory\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/completed-conservatory\/\">new conservatory<\/a>. 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