You may get bulbs next year, but you may also end up with no bulbs and lots of flowers which is what I suspect will happen. Most onion varieties are photoperiod sensitive and bulb formation is triggered by how long the night is. It's likely that your plants simply didn't have enough energy to form bulbs when they got triggered to do so. Onions are biennials which flower in their second year which is why I think the train may have left already in terms of getting bulbs. Certainly you can keep them and see what happens. You can also use them for green onions. If bulb production is your goal though I would get some plants next year of a variety appropriate to bulb well in your area. Google Dixondale Farms and read their FAQ section to get a really good understanding of what varieties are likely to perform best in your area. In the event you decide to purchase plants I recommend Dixondale highly. I don't think you will find anyone who has had a bad experience with them and they always send far more than you order.

Yes, sets make wonderful scallions. I've used mine up now, but planted them in groups of a dozen or so every week during most of April and May. I pull 2-3 a day for cooking. At a local organic farm they don't even bother to "plant" them -- just roll the sets into prepared soil, and let them go. I tried it in a small area and it works great.

Pic 1 and 2 eat them, greens and all! They should have been left it the ground until the tops died back to use as sets later. But will be tasty in a bowl of beans! Pic 3 looks like a top setting onion, like Egyptian walking onions. Save them for sets. I don't know about zone 5, but here in zone 7 we plant them in fall and harvest in the spring. I don't think they will over winter if the ground freezes. Plant the sets in spring, as soon as the ground thaws and the soil is workable. Light freezes will not hurt them. Maybe someone from the land of cold winters will chime in soon!

I agree with all of you: they're definitely Hollywood Regency. And I should recharacterize my own style, which is probably better said to be "*in* transition" rather than transitional. (: I do like clean-lined pieces, and our DR set is very Mission; the adjacent LR combines Mission and Art Deco; and our bedroom, where these chairs would go, is your basic Recovering Graduate Student/Random Wedding Present room. So funky/eclectic would fit in just fine there. And there's just something about these chairs... The room is a long rectangle. The half without windows is for the bed (not a bed per se, but rather mattresses on a metal frame) and the dressers, which are mismatched yard sale finds. On the other side of the room, I'd like to create a sitting/reading area next to the windows, with a gorgeous view of the mountains (by far the nicest thing about the room!). We got a red and tan handloomed Peruvian folk-art rug for our wedding, and that's what we'll use to set off the seating area. Also on that side of the room, framing one window, are some slender dark walnut modern-styled bookcases. And then the part I'd like to replace: a heinously ugly loveseat that a friend gave us, also on that side of the room. I'd much rather find some reading chairs and an ottoman than a loveseat anyway; the room's not that big, and the loveseat makes it a pain to open and close the curtains and shades. I agree these chairs don't look too comfortable, so they're probably not my ideal reading chairs. But they'd be good for draping the bathrobe or pulling into the LR for extra seating. I love the idea of velvet, and maybe even the box-pleated skirt -- hadn't thought of that, cool idea, thank you! I agree that they're great in a pattern, but I don't want lots of patterns clashing in my bedroom, I don't think. What would you think of a tan velvet on the back and the bottom of the seat, and then the top, round seat cushion in something like this: Here is a link that might be useful: I'd use this pillow cover to reupholster the seat...