Yes, that's the ticket. If you find a thick clump take the kitchen scissors to it. I do that in my drive as it comes up through tarmac. In Bristol it thrives all over the Downs and when the grass is being shorn in the spring it smells like everyone in Bristol is having curry for lunch. In the woodland edge garden at the Univ of Bristol Botanic garden where the long grass is only cut once a year because it is a spring delight of thousands of anemones and daffodils, snowdrops and cyclamen etc, we volunteers used to search for the flowerheads and cut right down to the ground to stop the tiny new plants being spread.
Is that the one that's about 18inches tall with reddish flowers Marion? I remember one like that from childhood walks but have seen it since. We don't have wild flowers naturally round here in the agricultural desert
I think you are referring to the "Bristol" onion which is not very invasive and pretty. Allium vineale has nondescript flowers , very drab but there are varieties that have been marketed as firecrackers which have wishy washy colours but would soon revert to the weed as self seeds all over a garden. It can grow to three feet if left to set seed.
Yes, I've looked at the Bristol onion and I think you're right Marion.
A. vineale looks like the one that was marketed as A. 'Hair' a few years ago. That has made a mass of leafy seedlings but I haven't seen a flower since the first season.
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Yes, that's the ticket. If you find a thick clump take the kitchen scissors to it. I do that in my drive as it comes up through tarmac. In Bristol it thrives all over the Downs and when the grass is being shorn in the spring it smells like everyone in Bristol is having curry for lunch. In the woodland edge garden at the Univ of Bristol Botanic garden where the long grass is only cut once a year because it is a spring delight of thousands of anemones and daffodils, snowdrops and cyclamen etc, we volunteers used to search for the flowerheads and cut right down to the ground to stop the tiny new plants being spread.
Is that the one that's about 18inches tall with reddish flowers Marion? I remember one like that from childhood walks but have seen it since. We don't have wild flowers naturally round here in the agricultural desert
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think you are referring to the "Bristol" onion which is not very invasive and pretty. Allium vineale has nondescript flowers , very drab but there are varieties that have been marketed as firecrackers which have wishy washy colours but would soon revert to the weed as self seeds all over a garden. It can grow to three feet if left to set seed.
Yes, I've looked at the Bristol onion and I think you're right Marion.
A. vineale looks like the one that was marketed as A. 'Hair' a few years ago. That has made a mass of leafy seedlings but I haven't seen a flower since the first season.
In the sticks near Peterborough