Rainbow Seeds & Supplies
“Ontario Purple Trillium”
“Serpent garlic”
Heirloom Rocambole Garlic Bulbils
Allium sativum var. ophioscorodon 'Ontario Purple Trillium'

Up for purchase is a package consisting of just over 50 Ontario Purple Trillium heirloom rocambole garlic seed bulbils. Rocambole or Serpent garlics are prized for their great flavor and easy to peel cloves! Serpent Garlic gets its name from the beautifully coiled snake like stems that appear as they emerge from the underworld :)

Ontario Purple Trillium is a very productive, early maturing hardneck garlic with beautiful purple colored skins. Just as the Trillium flower is one of the first plants to bloom in the spring, Ontario Purple Trillium is also one of the earliest garlics to emerge every spring and one of the first garlics to mature for harvest. It is a very reliable producer of large heads and grows nice sturdy dark green plants.

It has a wonderful rich full bodied garlic flavor that is great for baking.

It is quite spicy or hot as far as garlic goes. It will “pack a ferocious punch” and is “a veritable garlic inferno” some say. I would say that the spicy flavor nicely mellows when roasted.

Averages about 7-10 easy to peel attractive purple striped cloves per bulb.


All of our garlic seed is hand-crafted and organically grown in Wisconsin using all natural and organic garden practices without any synthetic chemicals used in any part of the process from seed to harvest to storage.

We never use and chemical fertilizers or pesticides.

This is a very cold hardy garlic variety that easily thrives, even through our hard Wisconsin winters! It will even grow well as far north as Canada! In my photo I included a picture of a few heads so you can see what the garlic will look when mature. You will receive bulbils not heads or cloves of garlic. The bulbils are the garlic seeds that we also include in the photo. These are not the true seeds of the plant, but are asexual clones that the plant produces as part of its life cycle.
Hardy in zones 3-8
Early season harvest.

Please visit my store, Rainbow Seeds & Supply, for Wholesale quantities of these seeds, and a wide variety of ORGANIC and HEIRLOOM  Vegetable and Flower seeds along with Medicinal Mushroom Plugs for growing your own mushrooms, and many other great items.

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 Happy growing!