Red Walking Onion

Allium x proliferum Origin: Pakistan or India, via Europe Improvement status: Cultivated material Bulbs per packet: 15 for $6 (40 cents per) 45 for $15 (33 cents per) 100 for $30 (30 cents per) Life cycle: Perennial USDA Zone hardiness: 3-10 Walking Onions are deserving of at least a little patch in any garden. Given our focus on perennial edibles, it's about time they made it into our catalogue, because these are essentially perennial green onions that are really tough to kill. Resilient, prolific, and hardy to zone 3, they even compete with weeds very well. We've seen them thrive in drought conditions and in subpar soil. Nothing phases them. Also known as Egyptian walking onions, tree onions, or topsetting onions, this species is the result of a long-ago hybridization between a shallot (Allium cepa) and a perennial Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum). According to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they originated somewhere on the Indian subcontinent and found their way to Europe (po