One of the easiest flowers to grow is the Leek. Normally grown as a vegetable for its swollen stem bases, it can also be grown for its beautiful round heads of mauve flowers. These form over late spring and early summer from clumps of blue-grey ‘onion-like’ leaves.
- Type
- Exotic
- Maintenance
- Low
- Water use
- Moderate
- Lifecycle
- Annual
- Container
- One
- Size
- Small shrubs 0.5 - 3 metres
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Zones
- Semi-arid with summer rain, Moist temperate with hot summers, Arid interior, Semi-arid with winter rain, Moist temperate with warm summers, Winter rains with dry summers
- Soils
- Sandy, Loam, Clay
- Tolerances
- Frost
- Regions
- Central Highlands Garden, Yarra Valley Water plants
- Shade levels
- Full sun
- Flowering seasons
- Spring, Summer
- Colours
- Green, White, Pink
- Gardens
- Cottage