Have you brought in any topsoil from elsewhere that could have had bulbs lurking in it? Or perhaps if the area was overgrown this time last year and you cleared it later, they could have gone unnoticed?
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
when do they flower? as long as they don’t get to smelly i could wait 😅 or could i just move them somewhere else? They occupying most of my flower bed in front of my house / very prominent position at the moment
Depends which one it is, but mostly late spring to early summer (May into June depending on your location). There's a chart on this page https://blog.longfield-gardens.com/bloom-time-chart-for-allium-bulbs/ . The foliage tends to start dying down before the flowers open so they are best grown through/among perennials so that their new growth will hide the tatty allium leaves.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I dug one up - it’s a slight smell too I guess it’s allium. It’s spreading everywhere...I‘ll need to dig some more out 😅
Are you sure it's not garlic? I find some bits thrown in the compost bucket end up sprouting in the garden here and it looks similar to me. I grow it deliberately as well and some of it has got dug up and moved most likely by crows who I think like to check the roots for worms to eat. If it is not from your compost heap then maybe a neighbour is growing it or has had some robbed from their compost heap by birds that left them in your garden. The photo of the multiple leaves patch looks like a full bulb that was not harvested last summer or was not divided before being planted. Its a member of the allium family as well.
I dug one up - it’s a slight smell too I guess it’s allium. It’s spreading everywhere...I‘ll need to dig some more out 😅
Are you sure it's not garlic? I find some bits thrown in the compost bucket end up sprouting in the garden here and it looks similar to me. I grow it deliberately as well and some of it has got dug up and moved most likely by crows who I think like to check the roots for worms to eat. If it is not from your compost heap then maybe a neighbour is growing it or has had some robbed from their compost heap by birds that left them in your garden. The photo of the multiple leaves patch looks like a full bulb that was not harvested last summer or was not divided before being planted. Its a member of the allium family as well.
That’s what I think I have alliums in a different sizes, I’ve never had one in sections like that, they are usually very smooth, like a silver skin onion.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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I guess it’s allium. It’s spreading everywhere...I‘ll need to dig some more out 😅
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Still an allium and will flower. Depends if you want it.
Are you sure it's not garlic? I find some bits thrown in the compost bucket end up sprouting in the garden here and it looks similar to me. I grow it deliberately as well and some of it has got dug up and moved most likely by crows who I think like to check the roots for worms to eat. If it is not from your compost heap then maybe a neighbour is growing it or has had some robbed from their compost heap by birds that left them in your garden. The photo of the multiple leaves patch looks like a full bulb that was not harvested last summer or was not divided before being planted. Its a member of the allium family as well.