A handbook on the alliums, including garlic, onions, chives, leeks, and shallots. Offers directions on growing and harvesting each plant, with ideas for the garden, crafts, and cooking. Includes step-by-step instructions for arrangements, garlands, and wreaths, and recipes for soups, sides, and entrees.
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Ellen Spector Platt resides in New York City and is the author of several books. She grows a wide variety of flowers and herbs and teaches dried-flower crafts and fresh-flower arranging.
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Interesting. I never knew there were so many varities of garlic and onions. I'll be growing some next year.
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The Allium species number at least 700, some say as many as 1,000, including both wild and cultivated types. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
corkscrew chives, flowering alliums, drumstick allium, flowering onions, giant alliums, garlic festival, bunching onions, true garlic, cat mint, elephant garlic, garlic chives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York City, United States, Strawbery Banke Museum, New Hampshire, Old Testament, Julia Child, Royal Horticultural Society New!
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The Allium species number at least 700, some say as many as 1,000, including both wild and cultivated types. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
corkscrew chives, flowering alliums, drumstick allium, flowering onions, giant alliums, garlic festival, bunching onions, true garlic, cat mint, elephant garlic, garlic chives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York City, United States, Strawbery Banke Museum, New Hampshire, Old Testament, Julia Child, Royal Horticultural Society New!
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- Theme Gardens: Revised Edition by Barbara Damrosch on page 45, and Back Matter
- Green Pharmacy by James A Duke on page 38, and Back Matter
- A Modern Herbal (Volume 1, A-H): The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-Lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs & Trees with Their Modern Scientific Uses by Margaret Grieve on page 33, and Back Matter
- The Green Pharmacy: New Discoveries in Herbal Remedies for Common Diseases by James A. Duke on page 38, and Back Matter
- GARDENING IN DEER COUNTRY (Brick Tower Press Garden Guide) by Vincent Drzewucki on page 64, and Back Matter
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