Tulbaghia simmleri (Sweet Wild Garlic)
Botanical name: Tulbaghia simmleri
Common names: Sweet Wild Garlic, Sweet Garlic, Fragrant Tulbaghia
Family: Amaryllidaceae (Formerly:Alliaceae / Liliaceae /Amaryllidaceae)
Origin: South Africa
USDA Zone: 7-10
Plant form: Small
Mature height: 2-5 ft
Sun exposure: Full sun or bright light indoor
Cold tolerance: Frost sensitive. Protect from freezing.
Watering: Moderate
Flower color: Pink; white and off-white
Suitable for: Outdoors in the suitable USDA zone; small gardens, containers, and indoor growing
Fragrance: Fragrant; perfume plantTulbaghia simmleri is a slender, erect, clump-forming, evergreen perennial to 250 mm, with a bulb-like rootstock. Leaves are grey-green, flat and strap-like. The inflorescence is an umbel of pink to mauve-pink, occasionally white, strongly fragrant, tubular flowers.
In comparison with Tulbaghia violacea (Wild Garlic) that many gardeners are familiar with, T. simmleri leaves are wider and thicker, and not as strong smelling, and T. violacea has only three small corona lobes that don't form a tube, whereas the corona in T. simmleri is a more noticeable feature of the flower.