Flowers are Colours of Nature
I was speaking to my son the other day. He didn’t realise that common vegetables like potatoes, carrots, onions and ginger actually had plants and flowers above the ground. All plants have three essential parts: roots, leaves and flowers. Potatoes are the roots of a plant with green leaves and pale to dark purple & yellow flowers.
Did you know that carrots have little white flowers?
These are some amazing photos of onion fields:
As you know onions come in white, brown and purple varieties.
The colour of the flowers reflect the colour of the onion (the root or bulb) underneath. Onions are close relatives of garlic, chives and shallots. They start life as a small bulb and as the soil temperature increases in Spring time the bulb expands and pushes a green stalk up through the soil. The onion plant is biennial, that is, it takes two years to complete its life cycle from seed to harvest and more seeds. They need to two complete cycles of cold to warm weather to bloom with its beautiful flowers. Finally when the leaves start to die off the onion bears more bulblets for the next planting.
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