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 sphaerocephalon \u2013 Drumstick Allium \u2013 Round-head Garlic <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 This bulbous perennial grows 20-36\u201d tall and derives from Europe, Northern Africa, and Western Asia. \u00a0It produces 14\u201d long linear, mid green basal leaves. \u00a0In summer it bears egg shaped umbels 1\u201d across of up to 40 tightly packed bell shaped flowers from green to pink to dark red brown.<\/p>\n Zones 4-11<\/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":26352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[82,21,20],"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-160252796"},"_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\/4272"}],"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=4272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}