{"id":5984,"date":"2016-08-05T14:09:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T12:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2016-08-05T14:09:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T12:09:44","slug":"sherpa-and-swedish-norrland-onions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=5984","title":{"rendered":"Sherpa and Swedish Norrland onions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite Himalayan onion is now coming into flower in the garden. This is what I call Sherpa onion (Allium wallichii), it&#8217;s a beauty and the bees and hoverflies also love it! The other two pictures are of Norrland onion which has been in bloom for a while now. 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