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Adorable little flower bombs.

Allium blooms! There’s doubtless a few onion or garlic bulbs growing at the base of those flower bombs. Edit: Not actually alliums! A keen reader has pointed out the leaves sprouting from the stems of these flowers; in alliums, they’d be at the base. What we see here are a breed of Echinops, a type of thistle. Guess I was so antsy for the Family Garden’s garlic and onions that I jumped the gun on my ID.

This weekend the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden continues its “Sweet and Stinky” event with a spotlight on the vegetables best eaten with breathmints in your pocket.

If you catch a whiff of caramelized onions at the NYBG, this is probably where it’s coming from. Check out our page for info on the cooking demonstrations running all weekend at 2 and 4 p.m. —MN

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    Goodness, how I want some of those great huge drumstick alliums in my garden. I’ll have to put them on my fall bulb...

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    Allium blooms! There’s doubtless a few onion or garlic bulbs growing at the base of those

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