Edible exotics: everlasting onions

Stephanie Hafferty provides her pick of the more unusual perennials for tasty and nutritious meals

This is the one vegetable no kitchen can live without. Used almost daily and famously capable of bringing us to tears, the onion is both humble and extraordinary. Its sun-kissed skins glow from deep r

Plants that return each year create a framework for borders

Apios americana , known as the potato bean ...

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