{"id":10205,"date":"2011-05-09T06:07:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T13:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10205"},"modified":"2011-05-08T08:23:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:23:20","slug":"know-your-onions-they-are-alliums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/know-your-onions-they-are-alliums\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Onions they are Alliums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"White Allium by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4647904106\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4056\/4647904106_51c2facb0c.jpg\" alt=\"White Allium\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alliums<\/strong> are a significant species of bulbous, herbaceous perennials that usually have an onion odor and taste.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Indeed garlic, leeks, onions, chives and shallots are all Alliums.<\/li>\n<li> Many alliums are grown as decorative flowers rather than as a food crop.<\/li>\n<li> Plants have bulbs that reform annually from the base of the old bulb, or are produced on the ends of rhizomes or the ends of stolons.<\/li>\n<li> The bulbs have outer coats that are commonly brown or grey, with a smooth texture, and are fibrous, or with cellular reticulation.<\/li>\n<li> Many alliums have basal leaves that go white or wither away from the tips downward before or while the plant flowers.<\/li>\n<li> Flowers are produced in groups forming a globe or umbels where the outside flowers bloom first and flowering progresses to the inside<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4666553233\/\" title=\"Allium by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4017\/4666553233_041dbb16b8.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Allium\"><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ornamental onions are grown for their showy flower heads.<br \/>\nAlliums grow in a wide range of sizes and shades of blue, purple, white and yellow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5207607722\/\" title=\"yellow allium by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4153\/5207607722_f1c54f0908.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"yellow allium\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florists find Alliums have a  long cut life of 12-20 days.<br \/>\nAlliums and their seed heads are suitable for drying.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4830381757\/\" title=\"Allium seed heads by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4082\/4830381757_49c058ea5d.jpg\" width=\"492\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Allium seed heads\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alliums are a significant species of bulbous, herbaceous perennials that usually have an onion odor and taste. Indeed garlic, leeks, onions, chives and shallots are all Alliums. Many alliums are grown as decorative flowers rather than as a food crop. Plants have bulbs that reform annually from the base of the old bulb, or are produced on the ends of rhizomes or the ends of stolons. The bulbs have outer coats that are commonly brown or grey, with a smooth&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/know-your-onions-they-are-alliums\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}