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What is this???




They smell a bit oniony... look a little like spring onions... the 'bulbs'/ 'seeds' are between 5mm and 1cm in diameter.


I have thousands of them... I thought they were sweet peas, because they are growing where I only had sweet peas last year - I have only been here since April...



Any thoughts??

Definitely something oniony. Did you have an onion nearby that seeded itself? Or, if not you, maybe your predecessors? Or maybe it blew across from the neighbours?

Could be a non-edible onion, of course... Only way to find out is to let it grow until it flowers.

Pick an ornamental allium, any ornamental allium. It could be any of them. I wouldn't try eating it though.

Well having done a google image search on allium, some of them are really lovely flowers

I did find out that there are thousands of varieties though... I will just have to wait and see I guess... It is a mystery how they got there, I don't think they were there last year... who knows...

Probably chives, if you have thousands of them. Every shoot of a chive has a bulb like that at the bottom. I have just been digging out garlic chives that have self seeded everywhere and they look just like that except for the flattened green shoots.

Leave them be, let them flower, then you'll know if they are chives or not. If they are . If not they'll have lovely flowers anyway!

Because the leaf shoots aren't separated, I'd definitely go with an ornamental allium too. Be fun waiting to find out though. Let us know what it turns out to be!