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Tulbaghia natalensis
Also called Sweet Wild Garlic
Pink wild garlic is a bulbous perennial from South Africa, grown for its clusters of pink flowers and garlic-scented leaves. It needs full sun or light shade and well-drained soil that is kept lightly moist in the growing season.
Tulbaghia natalensis, called pink wild garlic and sweet wild garlic (a name it shares with Tulbaghia simmleri), is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to the Cape Provinces and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental.
Highland Wild Garlic · Berg Garlic · Sweet Garlic · Society Garlic
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tulbaghia natalensis 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.
