Onions
Allium cernuum
We have a new onion plant in the garden…
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Allium nectarscordum
…we are fond of the decorative onions because the deer don’t eat them…
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Droop
…these ones are so droopy!
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Allium stipitatum
…and these ones are so upright!
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Allium sphaerocephalon
These will be sweet little purple walnut-shaped blossom clusters. We are so glad to have a variety of lovely shapes, colours and heights in the front garden! The deer leave them alone (though the slugs don’t)!
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Allium porrum
…and we have onions in the fenced back garden too, leeks…
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Allium shoenoprasum
…and chives.
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Flowers
Henrietta picked some chive flowers…
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Bouquet
…and brought them into the house for a pretty bouquet…
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Soup!
…and one for Jane, who wants to make soup!
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Quimper Hittys 
I really admire how you lead us through the garden (I should say, the little wooden folk lead us through) and pick out the details of various plants. You have such interesting variety just among your onion family.
I find our everyday ordinary garden plants are so very interesting when seen from a Hitty perspective…I can’t help but share with my Hitty friends so you can see them too!
So pretty… I pine for onions, which disagree with me strongly. Also leeks, but strangely, not garlic. It can make cooking challenging, sometimes, but at least it’s safe for the dogs to perform the canine pre-wash!
Most of my onions are for beauty not for eating, but I am very glad that they don’t disagree with me, and very glad that deer disagree with them! We are all happy during onion season in the garden (except the deer)!
Alliums are so very pretty.
We think so too – and there are so many different kinds of alliums, shapes, colours and sizes. We have planted a lot of them because the deer don’t like them, sometimes planting a little moat of onions around other plants that does seem to protect them!
I will have to try that!
This has been a very good year for the alliums in my yard! Thank you for sharing some of your varieties!
You are welcome! We really enjoy them, and love to dry the flower heads to keep for winter bouquets.
I think Henrietta is just the cutest of the cute! (although I feel that way about all your girls.)
The onions are admirable also.
Awww thanks, Henrietta is blushing, a bright pink-cheeked glow. She admires the onions too, and doesn’t mind the Hitty cupboard smelling like chives, both raw in the bouquet, and in purple soup form in Jane’s kitchen!
I love onions…decorative and edible! Such a wonderful variety of them in your beautiful garden.
We have a lot of them in our beautiful garden, I don’t think there are too many, given all the varieties, and we really do appreciate that the deer leave them alone!
All these flowers are so beautiful, this small World where I wished to be, your hand crafst are all amazing and yes, at the end, you are all so beautiful. Thank you dear Hitty Lady, Love, nia
You are welcome, dear nia! We love it when you visit our world.
I love eating chive flowers which is odd because I don’t like cheese and onion crisps wh[ch have a very similar flavour!
We love eating chive flowers too! So tasty and mild.
Those flowers are so pretty and I didn’t know there were decorative onions that deer do not eat. Deer like to snack on many things at my house but I did recently learn that squirrels hate the smell of marigolds so I planted a bunch of those in my garden to decrease their snacking!
If only the slugs disliked onions!