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Wild Garlic
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I planted some wild garlic early summer last year in a woody shaded area of my garden.
However I read that wild garlic is rampant and I'm worried I'll end up with the plant everywhere.
Should I pull it up?!
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It does spread. It is very pretty with English bluebells and red campion. You can use it to cook with (very fashionable just now). Is the wild look what you were looking for? If so then accept that many, if not most wild plants have aspirations to conquer the world and pull them out where th are unwanted!
I heard the same so I have some in a pot. It's been in their for two years and has done well. Just started to sprout again.
We have it in our garden in our woodland garden (I didn't plant it - it invaded from the wood behind). It's choked all our lovely little wood anenomes. I am trying to dig clumps of it up each year when I see it. I agree that it's very pretty and it has its place, but it's much too rampant for a small/medium garden. Keep it well controlled - if you can!
Planted three clumps of bulbs many years ago.
Provided you take off seed heads then no danger of spreading mine still the same three clumps.Just slightly larger by a few bulbs from the original.
BUT
Let it seed and hey presto it is all over the place...
That's how a lot of plants spread.of course the seed capsules "explode" and the seed is placed away from the parent plant into their own space.
if you dig it out that.s fine but do not let it produce seed.