Beginner Gardening: do alliums bloom the first year?, 0 by mangcorn

mangcorn wrote:
Hi, I planted three alliums (Allium giganteum 'Pink Jewel') last fall, and they started to grow nicely in the spring, grew about 3 feet tall, and formed big balls with something that looked like green seed pods, but there were no pink flowers, - only tiny purple hairs on these pods. It's July 8 already, and they looked like they are finished. Why were there no flowers? Maybe they don't develop them in the first year?