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Looks Like Grass

TimmyMagicTimmyMagic Posts: 135
in Problem solving
I have quite a bit of this in the flower bed and it looks like a type of glossy grass, but just flops over. It's taking up space and is also growing among other things like the Tulips. I pulled a clump of it up and it has little bulbs attached. Does anyone know what it is?

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  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    edited April 2019
    If it has an onioney smell when you break a leaf it's probably chives.

    Could also be self sown seedlings of an ornamental allium.

    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    edited April 2019
    Allium sphaerocephalon i bet.  
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • TimmyMagicTimmyMagic Posts: 135
    Topbird said:
    If it has an onioney smell when you break a leaf it's probably chives.

    Could also be self sown seedlings of an ornamental allium.

    I can't detect an onion smell, although I do have a bit of a blocked up nose. 

    I thought it was a weed. I will stop pulling it out then and see what happens.
  • DaveGreigDaveGreig Posts: 189
    They look like bluebell bulbs to me.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Don’t think they look like bluebell bulbs, have you got any allium around? @TimmyMagic
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • TimmyMagicTimmyMagic Posts: 135
    Lyn said:
    Don’t think they look like bluebell bulbs, have you got any allium around? @TimmyMagic
    I planted some bulbs in the autumn, including alliums... but I'm pretty certain it wasn't in this spot. The only thing I remember growing in this area last summer was some dahlias that I planted (and dug up / stored over winter). 

    I pulled some of these up earlier before reading the replies, as I thought it might be something invasive. Thankfully I didn't go mad and there's still plenty left, so will keep an eye on it. It may be something I planted!
  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,154
    Look more like immature Muscari bulbs to me !
  • DaveGreigDaveGreig Posts: 189
    TimmyMagic: Let some grow and once they flower, the answer will be revealed. Some of the hybrid/cultivated bluebells although not strictly speaking invasive in garden terms can be a bit of a pest. They will self seed all over the place and come up in the middle of your prized perennials proving tricky to get rid of without using glyphosate. They’re already polluting our native woodland and nice as they are in spring they’re choking out native plants. I know this from experience because my garden is festooned with them after getting a small clump from my grandad 35 years ago and I’m forever digging them out.


  • TimmyMagicTimmyMagic Posts: 135
    d.greig12 said:
    TimmyMagic: Let some grow and once they flower, the answer will be revealed. Some of the hybrid/cultivated bluebells although not strictly speaking invasive in garden terms can be a bit of a pest. They will self seed all over the place and come up in the middle of your prized perennials proving tricky to get rid of without using glyphosate. They’re already polluting our native woodland and nice as they are in spring they’re choking out native plants. I know this from experience because my garden is festooned with them after getting a small clump from my grandad 35 years ago and I’m forever digging them out.


    Yes, I've left quite a bit of this to see what happens.

    My mum's friend came over a few days ago and said it could be the left overs of the crocus I planted back in Autumn, or maybe from years ago. I have only been back a week after 2 months away and did not see the crocus flower. But I don't remember planting little bulbs like this. Oh well, will see what occurs.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    what bulbs have you got growing there? except for a few fancy multi-petalled things they all seed. 


    In the sticks near Peterborough
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