©Kathryn Tisdale and The Mandala Pattern. 2010

Monday I posted a mandala of a petunia, and that’s when I learned (from you) that petunias and onions go together.  Not one to break up things that go together, I offer this mandala of  a red onion.

Petunias and onions are considered companion plants, that is they grow well together in the same garden bed.  Not only that, they are both featured in this well known strange but funny little song that you may or may not have heard before:

I'M A LONELY LITTLE PETUNIA IN AN ONION PATCH
The Happy Gang

Of all the saddest words
That I have ever heard
The saddest is the story
Told me by a bird
He had spent about and hour
Chatting with a flower
and here ís the tale the flower told

I'm a lonely little petunia in an onion patch,
an onion patch, an onion patch
I'm a lonely little petunia in an onion patch
and all I do is cry all day
Boo hoo, boo hoo

The air ís so strong it takes my breath away

I'm a lonely little petunia in an onion patch,
oh won't you come and play with me

Who put me in this bed?
I'll bet his face is red
I call him down with every teardrop that I shed
If I only had him here
I'd take him by the ear
And make him share my misery

I'm a lonely little petunia in an onion patch,
an onion patch, an onion patch
I'm a lonely little petunia in an onion patch
and all I do is cry all day
Boo hoo, boo hoo

The air ís so strong it takes my breath away

(Feee-you!)

I'm a lonely little petunia in an onion patch,
oh won't you come and play with me

Red Onion Mandala -detail

Red Onion Mandala -source photo