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Chives
Jan Stocker
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I have growing in my border for the last 2 years something that looks a bit like thick chives and smells like garlic. It has never flowered. At first when it grits came up I thought it was crocuses or another springlike flower.
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I wonder if it's seedlings from one of the alliums that will flower eventually
In the sticks near Peterborough
As well as Nut's suggestion, it could be Allium triquetrum (onionweed) http://wildpicnic.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/onion-weed-allium-triquetrum.html or possibly Garlic chives (aka Chinese chives) http://www.sarahraven.com/shop/garlic-chives.html.
A quick way of telling the difference before they flower, is that the Allium triquetrum has leaves that are 'three cornered' or triangular in cross-section, hence another name for them which is Three-cornered garlic. Garlic chives leaf profile is flat.
A lot of people confuse the two.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.