This is the last weekend of the Fall Flower Show at Phipps. They’re already starting work on the Winter Flower Show. Every year each show has a whimsical theme, but for fall the stars of the show are always the chrysanthemums.
You buy a bundle of scallions, or green onions, or whatever they call them at your grocery, and you use half of them. What do you do with the other half? You can root them in water, or just stick them in the ground, and they will grow fat stalks with beautiful flowers that last for days in a vase.
Variously called Mediterranean Bells, Sicilian Honey Garlic, and several other names, this is a member of the onion genus valued more for its showy and interesting tricolored flowers than for its flavor.
Convallaria majalis is a popular planting everywhere, and it persists and spreads indefinitely once planted. These are semi-wild descendants of a planting in Beechview that is at least decades old.
