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Highland Wild Garlic

Tulbaghia leucantha

Also called Highveld Wild Garlic

Highland Wild Garlic is a bulbous geophyte from southern Africa, grown for its clusters of white, star-shaped flowers and garlic-scented foliage. It is hardy in mild climates and thrives in full sun to part shade with well-drained soil.

Family
Amaryllidaceae (Daffodil & onion family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water moderately during the growing season and let the soil dry out between waterings; keep it drier in winter.
Soil
Free-draining soil or loam; avoid waterlogged ground.
Temperature
Around 5 to 30 °C; tolerates light frost but protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Zambia to S. Africa
Climate
subtropical

About

Tulbaghia leucantha, the mountain wild garlic, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae, widely distributed in southern Africa. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental.

Other Tulbaghia plants

Berg Garlic · Pink Wild Garlic · Sweet Garlic · Society Garlic

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tulbaghia leucantha by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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