Allium wallichii (Sherpa onion, Nepal onion), my oldest variety from an unknown source and clearly different from all my others
Norrlands Onion was discovered in gardens in Northern Sweden (see my book Around the World in 80 plants).Thanks to DNA sequencing by Erik de Vahl in Sweden with help from Nikolai Friesen, this is now believed to be a hybrid between Allium angulosum (mother) and Allium nutans (father).
Allium “Miami”
Allium “Miami”
Allium caesium
Allium macranthum
Allium macranthum
Allium scorodoprasum
Allium cernuum “Wall of Pink”
Allium jajlae
Allium tuncelianum
Allium nutans or hybrid from Kazakhstan
Allium nutans “Seedlings” from Wietse Mellema
My oldest Allium wallichii (unknown source) now emerging
My oldest Allium wallichii (unknown source) now emerging
My oldest Allium wallichii (unknown source) now emerging
My oldest Allium wallichii (unknown source) now emerging
My oldest Allium wallichii (unknown source) with Allium “Hair” – can’t work out what species this is as it has some characters of scorodoprasum and some of vineale…
Allium wallichii flower stalk with Allium victorialis from the Haut-Chitelet alpine garden in the Alps
Allium “Hair” – can’t work out what species this is as it has some characters of scorodoprasum and some of vineale…
Allium ovalifolium
Allium stenodon
Received as Allium schoenoprasum ssp sibiricum from Hokkaido but flowers much later than other chives…
Allium tricoccum, ramps
Allium caeruleum “Bulbilliferous form”
A different form of Allium wallichii
A different form of Allium wallichii
A different form of Allium wallichii
A different form of Allium wallichii
Large bulbs of Allium cernuum “Pink Giant”
On 19th May 2017, filmakers Ane Mari Aakernes and Berit Børte of Grow UP City filmed me in the garden collecting ingredients for an extreme salad, made with 211 different plants, almost all of them perennials. I’m told that almost all the ingredients are shown in this 6 part film, so settle down and join me in foraging my maximum diversity edible garden where the focus is on sustainable, nature and climate friendly, perennial vegetables ….. :)
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden