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SysTax - detailed information on Allium schoenoprasum L. 'Grolau'.
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Throughout history, herbs have been very popular to grow and have recently experienced a surge in popularity in the home garden and landscape. They also are among the easiest plants to grow when given the appropriate environment. Gardeners should choose a planting site where herbs will thrive
Always planted but naturalising. Non-flowering plants, which are probably asignable to this taxon, have been seen in relic parkland near to Saltshouse Road [TA 12 32], possibly the site of an old kitchen garden.
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The Chives Common, 'Allium schoenoprasum', has beautiful edible flowers and delicate onion flavored foliage. The Common Chives are at home anywhere. Not many plants do as many things as this plant does and are as easy to grow, maintain, and they come back every year.
Robert, Garp's directory browser has a lot of hardcoded requirements for the directory structure, so I haven't used that interface for this data due to its limitations. I suspect that there would need to be some code cleanup where Garp rolled its own routines rather than using the gemlib routines.
Flowers: Umbel several- to many-flowered, pedicels slender, shorter than the tepals; tepals 8-12 mm. long, elliptic to lanceolate, pointed, the tips recurved, pale to deep lilac or white; stamens 6, over the length of the tepals.
Dry, well-drained soil. Full sun. Oil extract and seeds used in flavoring pastries. Has licorice-like flavor, use fresh seed. Basil (sweet) Ocimum basilicum A 18-24 Sow seed directly in May or seed indoors early spring and transplant in early May. Moist, well-drained soil.