Tulbaghia simmleri (Sweet Wild Garlic)

Tulbaghia simmleri (Sweet Wild Garlic) close up pink flower on long thin green stems
Tulbaghia simmleri (Sweet Wild Garlic) pink flower cluster attached to long thin green stems.

Botanical name: Tulbaghia simmleri

Common names: Sweet Wild Garlic, Sweet Garlic, Fragrant Tulbaghia

Family: Amaryllidaceae    (Formerly:Alliaceae / Liliaceae /Amaryllidaceae)

Origin: South Africa

USDA Plant Hardiness MapSmall plant 2-5 ftFull sunWatering: Moderate. Water when top soil feels dryWhite, off-white flowersPink flowersFragrant plant

Tulbaghia 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.

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