The magnificent Miscanthus sinensis in the background.


A shallow, bird bath rests on the remains of a long departed tree.


The pergola on the left. Egyptian Walking Onions Allium cepa var. proliferum is no misnomer for this interesting onion


variety. It has the ability to be very prolific. It’s a top setting onion, meaning that it produces small bulbils at


the end of a blue-grey hollow stem that emerges very early each spring. The stem is likely to twist and curl into interesting shapes and when the bulbils become fat and heavy in late summer, the stem gives way and the bulbils bend over to reach the ground. Here they put out new shoots and roots and a new onion is created: hence, walking onion. The Egyptians revered onions, believing that their spherical shape


and concentric rings were symbolic of eternal life. All parts of the plant are edible, although spicy. They do not produce top sets the first year.


10 WINTER 2013 www.localgardener.net


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