Allium flavum has open flower heads like exploding bright yellow fireworks.

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

Allium hirtifolium var. album is a four foot tall species with spheres of white.

Allium karataviense 'White Giant' has broad, bluish-green leaves topped with large spheres of pure white florets.

Allium nevskianum is a rare species with large pink flowers atop pairs of blue leaves.

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

Allium schoenoprasum 'Cha Cha Chive' is an ornamental and edible garden chive with cylindrical green leaves that grow out of the flower head.

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

Allium schoenoprasum f. albiflorum is an edible chive, with masses of pure white, star shaped flowers gathered in luxuriantly blooming umbels.

Allium schoenoprasum 'Forescate' is a large-flowered selection of chives with rose-purple flowers.

Allium schoenoprasum 'Rising Star' is an ornamental and edible garden chive with lavender-pink flowers and grey-green foliage.

Allium schoenoprasum 'Snowcap' is a white-flowered selection of chives.

Allium stipitatum 'White Giant' is the tallest of the white ornamental onions with huge 6-8 inch wide, pure white spheres.

Allium 'Cameleon' has charming, playful flower heads that emerge dusky pink and fade to white with pink veining.

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

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 on tall stems and green foliage.

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 'Magic' is an ornamental onion with half spheres of bold magenta-purple flowers.

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 'Metallic Shine' makes spectacular, metallic purple blooms 10-12 inches wide composed of hundreds of loose, star shaped flowers.