Allium atropurpureum has many star shaped, warm purple florets held in upward facing half domes about the size of a tennis ball.

Allium carinatum ssp. pulchellum looks like fireworks of rosy-purple florets in the summer garden.

Allium cristophii looks like a firework of tiny lavender pink flowers exploding in heads up to 15 inches wide!

Allium giganteum has huge, tightly formed, round, softball-sized inflorescences comprised of small lilac purple florets on tall stems.

Allium 'Early Emperor' is an early-blooming, large-flowered ornamental onion that blooms with late tulips, late daffodils, camas, and bluebells.

Allium rosenbachianum is an early-blooming large globe ornamental onion with four inch wide, dark violet spheres on three foot stems.

Chives grow in perennial tufts of narrow, edible, hollow leaves and produce flowers in rounded lavender-purple clusters.

Allium schoenoprasum 'Curly Mauve' offers a more ornamental take on the garden chive with curly, blue-grey leaves and silver-pink flowers.

Allium schubertii has rosey purple, star-shaped flowers arranged like an exploding firework that can be as big as a volleyball!

Allium 'Blue Eddy' has twisty and twirly bluish foliage topped in late summer with lavender pink spheres. A great ornamental onion for the sun garden.

Allium sphaerocephalon has two inch wide oval flower heads, green in bud, slowly turning a deep maroon and then deep pink.

Allium 'Ambassador' has fantastic six inch spheres on tall stems like magenta-purple balloons floating above the June garden.

Allium 'Beau Regard' is a gargantuan ornamental onion with lavender-purple spheres up to 8-10 inches across on stems 3-4 feet tall!

The impressive Allium ‘Dutchman’ can produce lavender purple spheres up to 8 inches across on stems 2-3 feet high.

Allium 'Gladiator' has large, fragrant lavender-purple spheres the size of soft balls on 3-4 foot stems.

‘Globemaster’ is absolutely one of the best alliums with sparkling silvery pinkish purple softball to volleyball sized flowers.

Allium 'His Excellency' grows to 3-4 feet tall with large, 5-6 inch, violet-purple spheres.

Allium 'In Orbit' is an ornamental onion that forms 3 inch wide drumstick spheres of lavender-purple.

Allium 'Lavender Bubbles' is an ornamental onion with dark purple, bubble-shaped flowers and blue-green twisty foliage.

Allium 'Lucy Ball' has huge, tightly packed 6 inch wide flower heads hover above the summer garden.

Allium 'Medusa forms rounded clusters of light amethyst purple flowers that rise above low mounds of grey-green, twisty foliage.

Allium 'Medusa's Hair' is an ornamental onion with snake-like, green foliage and purple flower spheres.

Allium 'Mercurius' forms tall, 2-3 foot stems topped with half globes in a rich, saturated shade of raspberry wine.

Allium 'Miami' forms tall, 2-3 foot stems topped with half orbs of rich purple, star shaped flowers loosely arranged in 3-4 inch heads.

Allium 'Millenium' forms fantastic two inch spheres on tall stems like rose-purple balloons floating in the summer garden.