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Allium ursinum (Ramsons)

Other names: Allium ucrainicum, Wild leek, Wood garlic, Wild garlic, Ramsomes, Hog's garlic, Gipsy onion , Bear's garlic, Buckrams

A. ursinum is an edible, bulbous, perennial groundcover with linear, green leaves appearing in midwinter. It has white flowers in spring and then dies down in early summer.
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0.5m max. spread

0.5m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium ampeloprasum 'Oarsman' (Leek 'Oarsman')

'Oarsman' is a vegetable with a thick, cylindrical white stalk, a slightly bulbous root end and many flat, dull dark green leaves in summer. It can be grown for baby leeks and stands up well to the cold winter wet.
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0.2m max. spread

0.45m max. height

1-2 years to maturity

Allium cepa 'Red Ray' (Onion 'Red Ray')

'Red Ray' is a bulbous perennial cultivated as a vegetable with upright, strap-like, grey-green leaves and edible, semi-globe shaped, deep crimson to maroon bulbs ready for harvest in autumn.
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0.15m max. spread

0.45m max. height

1-2 years to maturity

Allium cepa 'Electric' (Onion 'Electric')

Other names: Overwintering onion 'Electric'

'Electric' is a bulbous perennial cultivated as a vegetable with upright, strap-like, dark green leaves and round, red-skinned, edible bulbs with crisp, pink-flushed, white flesh ready for harvest in late spring and early summer.
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0.15m max. spread

0.4m max. height

1-2 years to maturity

Allium ampeloprasum 'Edison' (Leek 'Edison')

'Edison' is a vegetable with a thick, cylindrical white stalk, a slightly bulbous root end and many flat, dull dark green leaves in summer.This is a fairly disease resistant variety with uniform size and good texture that can be harvested young as a 'baby' vegetable, or when mature in autumn or winter.
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0.2m max. spread

0.45m max. height

1-2 years to maturity

Allium cepa 'Senshyu Yellow' (Onion 'Senshyu Yellow')

'Senshyu Yellow' is a bulbous perennial cultivated as a vegetable with upright, strap-like, grey-green leaves and edible, semi-globe shaped, pale yellow bulbs ready for harvest in summer.
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0.15m max. spread

0.45m max. height

1-2 years to maturity

Allium cepa Proliferum Group (Tree onion)

Other names: Egyptian onion, Walking onion, Topsetting onion, Allium cepa var. proliferum, Allium x proliferum, Allium cepa 'Proliferum'

Proliferum Group is a perennial cultivated as an annual vegetable with upright, strap-like, dark grey-green leaves and clusters of small, edible bulbs forming at the top of the stems, typically ready for harvest in late summer.
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0.5m max. spread

1.2m max. height

1-2 years to maturity

Allium sativum var. sativum 'Germidour' (Garlic 'Germidour')

Other names: French garlic 'Germidour', French softneck garlic 'Germidour'

'Germidour' is an upright, bulbous perennial with broadly linear, grey-green leaves, hollow stems bearing umbels of bell-shaped, white flowers in late spring and early summer and a large, ovoid bulb comprised of edible bulblets enclosed in a papery, purple-flushed, white sheath.
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0.15m max. spread

0.6m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Olsynium douglasii 'Album' (White grass widow)

Other names: Grass widow 'Album', Sisyrinchium douglasii 'Album', Sisyrinchium grandiflorum 'Album', White widow grass, White rush lily , Spring bell 'Album', Spring satin flower 'Album', Sisyrinchium douglasii var. album

'Album' is a clump-forming, deciduous to semi-evergreen perennial with upright, stems bearing linear, grey-green leaves and cluster-like spathes of nodding, bell-shaped, satiny, white flowers in early spring.
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0.1m max. spread

0.3m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Colchicum speciosum 'Album' (Giant meadow saffron 'Album')

'Album' is a compact, clump-forming, deciduous, cormous perennial with strap-shaped, bright green leaves and goblet-shaped, white flowers with green throats blooming in autumn before the leaves emerge.
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0.1m max. spread

0.2m max. height

2-5 years to maturity