giant green onions are some of our favorite edible ornamentals. Not just because they are so handy and ready to pick for stir-frying, but also for their speed in filling up dead-spaces with blue-green figures and striking growth patterns.
below is a mini time-lapse of mexican green onions often sold for cheap and which grow so fast straight from the bag. Filled up the elevated planter in just a month. Just as hardy to 115 F in summer as they are hardy at 15F in winter.
in vegas, green onions may be grown as perennials. Often living for 2-3 years and self-seeding. On their first year, the spears will be relatively thin, on the second year onwards, the spears get quite muscular(below)
