Tulbaghia, Variegated Society Garlic 'Silver Lace'

So far I have kept my 'Silver Lace' variegated Tulbaghia violacea in a pot, sitting in a tray of water most of the time, under our Olive ...Read Moretree. I read that it does best with 'wet feet'!

I have lots of non-variegated T.v. in the ground . . . which is heavy clay soil, here . . . and it does quite well in it. As long as I water regularly, both types flower spring to winter's cold . . . when they are not too crowded. (When they do get too crowded, I've found that just a tiny bit of 'Liquid Gold' in a gallon of water will have them blooming again in a few days, during the appropriate seasons.)

I find very interesting the experionce another gardener reported, of placing 2 T.v.v. plants in their pond & noticing a marked decrease in algae growth the following year, which they believe was due to the T.v.v. using the excess available nitrogen that would have otherwise caused much more algae growth. I intend on sharing that experience with friends who have ponds.

Society garlic is one of my go-to plants here in 9b, very low-maintenance and looks great clumped together in groups. I use it in front ...Read Moreof taller, evergreen shrubs with annuals planted in front of it, but looks great as a border on its own. Does well in mostly full sun and our sandy soil.

The local nursery sells this as a marginal water plant, and sells it in perforated pots sitting in water. It likes a very high- nutrient ...Read Moresoil, like other garlics, so we dropped two quart pots in our small (35-gallon) outdoor fish pond. We also have planted the pond with immersed plants, but we think these, with their high nutrient requirements, were instrumental last year in sucking the nitrogen from the pond to slow algae growth. We had little to no algae, and the pond gets direct sun for about 1/2 day.

We have had this plant growing around our garden shed for 6 years. Easy to propagate by division anytime of the year. As to keeping rabbi...Read Morets away...we have rabbits living under the shed.
Valley Center,CA. Zone 9.