Thank you for double checking and adding clear pics. That rules out the Allium triquetium completely, as leaf is not triangular in shape. A VERY invasive member of the onion family.
Thank you for double checking and adding clear pics. That rules out the Allium triquetium completely, as leaf is not triangular in shape. A VERY invasive member of the onion family.
Allium triquetrum, as the name says, has 3-cornered leaves.
Spanish bluebells have much fatter leaves. But English bluebells are a possibility. You wouldn't want dig that up, would you? If you come to digging out bulbs/bulbils, forking is better. Hand fork to loosen and hand pull to remove, is the approach.
Muscari has masses of thin leaves like your plant, but would be starting to flower now.
Whatever it might prove to be, I would wait until it flowers. Obviously no later that your moving date. It is a good idea to spend the first yeaar in anew garden just observing. Don't be over-hasty.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Very unlikely that English bluebells will be in leaf at this time of year. We have a lot of bluebell woods nearby ... none are in leaf yet. They don't begin to appear until the snowdrops are over.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Silver surfer I thought you might have some photos for a clear ID your photos are always so helpful. I would rather battle with the Muscari than the Allium but it's close!
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
We have the same problem in quite a deep border, with these invasive plants growing between and around all the other plants making it extremely difficult to even attempt to clear them. They smell like chives but no flowers have ever opened. I have tried digging them out and pulling them out by hand but, as someone else said, there seem to be hundreds of tiny bulbs so it's impossible to remove them all. Like fighting a losing battle I did wonder if planting more shrubs might deprive them of light and help to suppress them? Is there really no weed killer that would help? I now find it difficult to do any heavy gardening or spend a long time kneeling to hand-remove them - plus I would prefer to spend my time on more enjoyable gardening jobs! HELP!!!
I have a weedy garlic too (not A. triquetium, the one with thinner grassy leaves). Unfortunately I haven't got an easy solution. I dig out what I can and repeatedly pull/cut the foliage off what I can't, the theory being that it will eventually weaken them, same as the pesky spanish bluebells.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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That rules out the Allium triquetium completely, as leaf is not triangular in shape.
A VERY invasive member of the onion family.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Spanish bluebells have much fatter leaves. But English bluebells are a possibility. You wouldn't want dig that up, would you? If you come to digging out bulbs/bulbils, forking is better. Hand fork to loosen and hand pull to remove, is the approach.
Muscari has masses of thin leaves like your plant, but would be starting to flower now.
Whatever it might prove to be, I would wait until it flowers. Obviously no later that your moving date. It is a good idea to spend the first yeaar in anew garden just observing. Don't be over-hasty.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
In the sticks near Peterborough