Nectaroscordum is the plant that makes knowledgeable gardeners smile with quiet satisfaction. Its pendent bells — green, purple and cream — hang in loose clusters from tall stems in May and June, giving borders a quality of botanical drama that is simultaneously unusual, architectural and genuinely beautiful. Related to alliums, it has their structural quality without their uniformity — each flower slightly different, the whole head more complex and more interesting the longer you study it. After flowering, the seedheads stand through summer and autumn, turning bronze and papery, adding months of structural interest long after the blooms have finished. Dutch-grown and selected by BLOM for the large, healthy bulbs that produce the most generous display.