{"id":29143,"date":"2021-06-24T10:26:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T08:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=29143"},"modified":"2021-06-24T10:26:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T08:26:46","slug":"tall-swamp-onion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=29143","title":{"rendered":"Tall Swamp Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Years ago, I was at a work meeting in San Francisco with my colleague Harald Krogstad who sadly died in 2020. It’s very easy to put a date on this as we flew back on the day of the September 11 attacks, almost 20 years ago. After the meeting we hired a car and drove up to the Sierra Nevada and walked for a couple of days in the Tuolumne Meadows area. I remember finding a patch of a large Allium that I later found out had to be the tall swamp onion or Pacific onion (Allium validum<\/em>). A few seeds from those plants later germinated in Malvik and this became one of the 80 plants in my book Around the World in 80 plants. A few years ago I renovated my pond area and associated damp area where I was growing this onion which grows in large clumps in damp meadows at elevations of 1200-3350 m in the Sierra Nevada. It was finally possible to harvest again this year and yesterday I used it in scrambled eggs. The flowers umbels are unusually small for such a large Allium and for that reason has never become popular as an ornamental.\u00a0 See an earlier blog post with pictures that didn’t make it into the book here: https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=5994<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n