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  • lizzie02lizzie02 Posts: 10
    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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    Sorry for the late reply, I had some of this for the first time in my garden, it smelled very strongly of onions when crushed. I googled it and found it to be onion weed which if left is very prolific and a nightmare to get rid of to the extent that it should be disposed of but not in the compost and also the surrounding soil because the bulbs can be tiny and off it goes again. 
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    They don't look like either crocus or bluebells to me.  Do the leaves smell oniony if you crush them? If yes, then allium of some sort.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • TimmyMagicTimmyMagic Posts: 135
    I removed them all I'm afraid. This part of the garden bed had become invested with  ground elder... which spread like a canvas. Here's a photo of the area mid-April:



    And yesterday:



    It took me a week to remove as much ground elder as possible... on my hands and knees with a fork. Obviously it looked much nicer a couple of weeks ago and now looks bare, but I'm working on it!
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