Attractive, deep purple-red skinned spring onion with a mild flavour and a crisp texture, the purple colour merging with the silver when peeled. Ideal for container growing or outdoors throughout the season. Royal Horticultural Society AGM.
A wonderful type of salad onion that does not bulb but forms long white stalks. Most of the plant can be eaten with very little waste. Quick to mature, they are long lasting and can be left to make larger stems without losing their flavour.
This is the ideal variety for salads and stir fry dishes. It has very good mild flavour without being pungent, so is perfect eaten raw or just softened. An added bonus is strong erect foliage and a long white shaft and that it does not bulb so...
A dual purpose Italian variety with a pungent flavour. Best grown as a salad onion with nice, dark green leaves and a shiny, intense red inner core. Also useful as a fully mature bulb when it shows off its defined red and white inner rings. Sow...
Quick growing, small and round, these succulent silver-skinned cocktail/pickling onions are ideal for salads, stir fries or roasting whole. Can be grown very successfully in containers and windowboxes.
The first ever purple-red skinned mini onion. Decorative and very tasty. The tiny bulbs turn delicate pink when cooked or pickled. Can also be harvested very young as purple bunching onions. May also be left to harvest at normal size as mature...
Produces sweet tasty 'bulbs' and the stems can be used in stir fry's. Use for cooking or in salads. Sow March to June and harvest from June through to October.
An ever popular Spring onion, very quick growing, with silvery skin and mild flavour.
Sow in succession March-early May, and in August or early September to overwinter. No thinning required.
Nodding Onion, part of the lily family, is one of the most common and widespread wild onions. Blooming between May and July, its tiny pink, bell-shaped flowers are a beautiful addition to the open woodlands and meadows.
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Again a native of Siberia, not Wales.This is the red form nearer to the true wild Welsh Onion than the white bulbed form. Flavour is stronger and plants are hardier, often retaining their leaves through winter. Use leaves and small bulbs. Ht...
<p>Great substitute for spring onions as this plant is perennial. Comes from Siberia, not Wales! Sometimes called 'Ciboule'. Dies down in winter. Similar to bunching onion with a pungent flavour - use both the leaves and the slender,...
Naturally larger bulbed than other spring onions, Deep Purple produces violet-purple torpedo-shaped onions, perfect for use in salads or stir fries. They have a good flavour without being 'too hot'.
An improved 'White Lisbon' type, this British bred variety has upright green leaves and long white shafts which have a strong resistance to bulbing. It can be harvested throughout the summer and sown in autumn to overwinter for spring 'spring...
The long, pure white slender stems of onion Feast contrast well with the dark green leaves. Particularly good for summer production as this variety has good tolerance to heat. Later sowings will withstand cooler autumn weather. Stands very...
A novel red-skinned variety which can be used as a 'spring' or 'bulbing' onion. The red colouration becomes more intense as the onions get larger, whilst the flavour remains mild and the flesh crisp.
A British bred salad onion which produces very stiff, erect foliage. Ideal for successional sowings for pulling throughout the summer, later sowings in September will overwinter for spring harvesting.
Fast growing, vigorous variety with an upright habit. Ideal for growing at close spacings where space is limited or even in deep pots. Harvest June to November when stems are ‘pencil’ thick.
A mild flavoured bunching type, excellent for green onions or in salads, chopped and sprinkled, or to spice up a stir-fry. Grows well in containers as well as in rows in the vegetable bed.
