{"id":32425,"date":"2024-07-06T08:57:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T06:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=32425"},"modified":"2024-07-06T08:57:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T06:57:26","slug":"the-onion-garden-chicago-on-3rd-july-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=32425","title":{"rendered":"The Onion Garden Chicago on 3rd July 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Onion Garden Chicago at the Ringve Botanical Garden on 3rd July 2024\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1KaJqazXFdo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Onion Garden Chicago at the Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim, Norway contains over 100 Allium species and over 400 different accessions including a collection of old Norwegian onions which I collected across the country with support from the Norwegian Genetic Resource Centre and the Norwegian Agricultural Authority. You can safely eat all Alliums and most species have in the past been wild foraged. A few do have an unpleasant taste, but most are good to eat including some of the best-known ornamental onions, some of the best edimentals (combined food and beauty) and edi-ento-mentals: also a very popular genus for pollinators like bumble bees. Members of KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) in Norway can order most of the Alliums grown in the garden each autumn (please support us by becoming a member at <a class=\"yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa2hLcnExSjQ3Q3hxY0oyWV9fUVZDTVVfZGc0d3xBQ3Jtc0tua2JoUENpSzNzUDZON3lkTF9qQ3pMNVVuS3dRRHktMjF1TExJZl9mc0hmSm9sX1hDQnVyRDQ0ZTdYb3A3M2liVFF4c2lYLXBjM3ZCMFJnU1lMel9mazF0V0xDOWdDSjBYTGZXdkEzZDVXbFdNV05yRQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fkvann.no%2Fbli-med&amp;v=1KaJqazXFdo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/kvann.no\/bli-med<\/a>)<br \/>These are the 40 main Alliums I talk about, in order of appearance: Allium cernuum (nodding onion; Chicago onion; pr\u00e6riel\u00f8k) Allium cernuum \u201cAlan Kapuler\u201d(nodding onion; Chicago onion; pr\u00e6riel\u00f8k) Allium canadense Allium fistulosum (rooftop onion; takl\u00f8k from the Gudbrandsdalen valley) a) From S\u00f8re Kleivmelloms\u00e6ter, Mysus\u00e6ter in Rondane at 885m asl b) From Nordre Geitsida, Sel municipality Allium cyathophorum var. cyathophorum Allium hymenorhizum Allium insubricum Allium validum (Pacific or swamp onion from California) Allium scorodoprasum (sand leek; bendell\u00f8k &#8211; garlic derives from old norse geirlauk meaning spear onion as demonstrated) Allium tricoccum (ramps) Allium caeruleum \u201cBulbilliferous form\u201d Allium wallichii (Sherpa or Nepal onion) Allium senescens (Siberian onion) Allium fistulosum (Welsh onion; pipel\u00f8k) from Skedsmokorset, Akershus Allium sativum (hardneck \/ serpent garlic; slangehvitl\u00f8k) Allium victorialis \u201cCantabrica\u201d from northern Spain (Victory onion; seiersl\u00f8k) Allium victorialis \u201cR\u00f8st, Norway\u201d from the island in the Lofoten Islands in Norway (Victory onion; seiersl\u00f8k) Allium x proliferum \u201cCatawissa onion\u201d (topset, Egyptian or walking onions; luftl\u00f8k, etasjel\u00f8k) Allium pskemense (tower onion; t\u00e5rnl\u00f8k) Allium pskemense x fistulosum &#8220;Wietse&#8217;s onion&#8221; Allium ochotense from Japan (earlier Allium victorialis) Allium carolinianum Allium moly (golden garlic, lily leek; gull-l\u00f8k) Allium caesium Allium schoenoprasum (chives; gressl\u00f8k) \u2013 deadheaded Allium douglasii (Douglas&#8217; onion; Douglasl\u00f8k) Allium cernuum \u201cDwarf White\u201d (nodding onion; Chicago onion; pr\u00e6riel\u00f8k) Allium prattii x ovalifolium? (Chinese hybrid) Allium galanthum Allium rotundum Allium schoenoprasum subsp. sibiricum \u201cHokkaido\u201d \u2013 later flowering than other chives Allium ovalifolium var. leuconeurum Allium flavum subsp. flavum var. minus (small yellow onion; doggl\u00f8k) Allium ramosum Allium stipitatum (Persian shallots; Persisk sjalott) Allium maximowiczii var shibutsuense f. album Allium victorialis \u201cLandegode, Nordland, Norway\u201d (Victory onion; seiersl\u00f8k) Allium nutans \u201cLena\u201d (Siberian nodding onion; Sibirsk nikkel\u00f8k) Allum lenkoranicum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion Garden Chicago at the Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim, Norway contains over 100 Allium species and over 400 different accessions including a collection of old Norwegian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99,24],"tags":[340,4886,4733,234,1294,402],"class_list":["post-32425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-tour","category-onions","tag-alliums","tag-lokhagen-chicago","tag-onion-garden-chicago","tag-ringve-botanical-garden","tag-ringve-botaniske-hagen","tag-trondheim"],"views":1928,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32426,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32425\/revisions\/32426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}