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Help! Allium? Iris? Garlic? Onion?

BaryonyxBaryonyx Posts: 6
in Problem solving
Help! I’m a fairly novice gardener and planted hundreds of bulbs last autumn. These are the last left to flower and I can’t help but notice they look very different to the other plants that’ve grown through and not unlike a garlic/onion plant! I haven’t had any irises flower yet and there were possibly some smaller alliums left to flower, could these be them? Or are they edible types? How can I tell?!

thank you in advance!

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  • Tanty2Tanty2 Posts: 231
    It definitely looks onion-y!  The flower, though, does not look like a regular Allium.  To be sure it's not an Iris, you could squish a bit of one of the leaves and see if it smells of onion :)  Maybe the best option is wait to see what flowers, take a pic and ask here again :)
  • AstroAstro Posts: 433
    Nectaroscordum siculum has the similar shape prior to blooming. 
  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    edited June 2021
    My guess is allium sphaerocephalon as it looks just like mine
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