There are about 700 species of bulbous perennials and biennials, in this genus. Native to temperate regions in the northern Hemisphere and Western and Central Asia. \u00a0A single bulb produces clusters of off sets bulbs around it, which gradually forms clumps and range in height from 4\u201d to 5\u2019 feet tall. \u00a0They bear bell, star, cup, and spherical, sometimes hemispherical or ovoid occasionally pendent \u00bd-12\u201d wide flower heads. \u00a0The linear to strap shaped basal or stem-clasping leaves when bruised or cut excrete onion smell. \u00a0They bloom in spring and autumn and some species are edible and have culinary uses. \u00a0Contact with bulb may irritate skin.<\/p>\n
They prefer to grow in open sunny position in fertile well-drained, weed free soil.<\/p>\n
Prone to onion fly, stem eelworm, rust, onion white rot, bulb rots, White rot, mildew, smut <\/i><\/em>and various fungal leaf spots thrips.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n Allium schoenoprasum \u2013 Chives<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This bulbous perennial is native Europe, Asia, and North America and grows 12-24\u201d tall in neat small neat clumps. \u00a0It bears dark green 14\u201d long leaves used for flavoring and garnishing. It produces dense ball like umbels, 1\u201d across of mauve flowers in late spring and summer, which are edible. \u00a0Plant in full or part shade keep well watered and divide every 2 or 3 years.<\/p>\n Zones 5-10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Allium \u2013 Onion There are about 700 species of bulbous perennials and biennials, in this genus. Native to temperate regions in the northern Hemisphere and Western and Central Asia. \u00a0A single bulb produces clusters of off sets bulbs around it, which gradually forms clumps and range in height from 4\u201d to 5\u2019 feet tall. \u00a0They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[82,19,21,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160252790"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/4266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4266"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4266"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=4266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}