Allium fistulosum 'Red Welsh'

A hardy, evergreen, perennial onion grown as an ornamental in the herb or wildlife garden, or as a vegetable, forming clumps of elongated, straight white stems that are reddish-purple at the base with hollow green leaves. In their second year, the bulbs produce spherical heads of densely clustered greenish-white flowers, on stems to 50cm (20in) high in June and July, which are extremely attractive to bees and other pollinating insects.