What flower is this (bulb) please?

Pigtigg · #1 (**permalink**) 08-05-2009, 04:18 PM

This has just cropped up in my garden this year, and I thought it looked a bit like wild garlic, but the flowers seem a bit different.

Can anybody identify please?

Thanks.

Lancashire Lad · #2 (**permalink**) 08-05-2009, 05:07 PM

Hi Pigtigg,

It's Three Cornered Garlic (Some people call it Three Cornered Leek) - Allium triquetrum.

Regards
Mike.

Pigtigg · #3 (**permalink**) 08-05-2009, 05:56 PM

Thank you very much - been looking on the net for ages ... wonderful, it means that I can start eating it!

aeshna5 · #4 (**permalink**) 08-05-2009, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Pigtigg

Thank you very much - been looking on the net for ages ... wonderful, it means that I can start eating it!

Attractive plant, but highly invasive! Be warned!

KeenTeen17 · #5 (**permalink**) 08-05-2009, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by aeshna5

Attractive plant, but highly invasive! Be warned!

agreed with three cornered leek. but it spreads very quickly

Pigtigg · #6 (**permalink**) 08-05-2009, 06:34 PM

Lol - yes I have read about it being invasive, but it's under a tree where nothing much else grows, and I will probably eat a lot of the bulbs once the leaves have started to die down ... and I will be eating them too (in fact, I am planning a nice omlette tonight with chive flowers and the three cornered garlic leaf and flower!). I am chuffed I have in the garden - I will just have to eat lots of it to keep it manageable!

It is also next to my rocket bed, and I am hoping it will keep away some of the bugs that normally lay their eggs later in the summer.

Thanks.

Dena