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This is a heritage plant, I really like the color and foliage. It needs staking or a tomato cage to hold it upright when in flower. Spreads easy by runners.

Sorry to mention
This is not Allium giganteum
looks more as A. gladiator

Roland

Likes cooler temperatures. This variety tends to be shorter lived than the species types and less likely to reproduce from rhizomes. I have read that it is a hardy perennial and also seen the seed sold as a biennial. My own experience with the Tasso varieties is that they tend to die out after five to eight years for me. I like them so well that this is my third replanting. I am still looking for the perfect micro climate in my garden where they will reproduce freely.

In Europe it is for sale in the trade
Maybe in the USA
I can find out for who is interested
just PM me and I look for an address

This is the oldest known Double Narcissus in culture
and with a pleasant perfume

Roland

From what I have read this daffodil has been sold and passed-along for centuries (has been dated pre 1620, registered with the RHS). Each country seems to have had plantsman give this bulb a name.

I have found it to be exceptionally tough and it multiplies. Where other daffodils can't even survive my neglect and soil stabbing this one has reproduced easily. One of the saving properties of this bulb is the fact that it is an earlier bloomer. Its leaves have faded in time for me to mow and it has formed more bulbs.

Because this is such an old variety it isn't commonly sold which is a shame. The bloom is generally golden yellow with lots of doubling in the trumpet.

Probably wrong named
must be Polygonatum japonicum or Polygonatum odoratum var. japonicum

I have tried repeatedly to get the little wild white ones to grow in my lawn. They are doing well in the park, but not in my yard. Have bought the fancy pink ones and they hold on for several years, but haven't reproduced like I want. Am still looking for their perfect microenvironment in my yard.

Much like the commercial house plant type only smaller flowering. Older bulbs can get to be 6-8 inches across.

If you crumple the leaves they small like peanut butter.