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Is this wild garlic? PHOTO

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SourMilkGhyll · 28/04/2021 21:27

I'm pretty sure this is wild garlic.
Q1 - can anyone confirm that?
Q2 - would you ever think it acceptable to re-home some from the edges of an overgrown car park?

Is this wild garlic? PHOTO
Is this wild garlic? PHOTO
OP posts:
joystir59 · 29/04/2021 05:16

No, wild garlic has wider leaves and clusters of smaller white flowers

Embracingthechaos · 29/04/2021 05:27

Wild garlic smells very strongly of garlic. I think you'd know just from the smell.

SourMilkGhyll · 29/04/2021 06:49

Ah. Sounds like it isn't garlic then, and if the other ones are that invasive I think I'll just leave it where it is and admire it from afar!

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Bluntness100 · 29/04/2021 06:51

No it’s absolutely not wild garlic. You’d know if it was, it stinks. I’ve a shit ton of it on my garden and it’s honestly the bane of my life for a couple of months a year.

Nofriend · 29/04/2021 06:53

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Chalcroft · 29/04/2021 08:20

Does it smell of garlic? Wild garlic smells

Meggymoo777 · 29/04/2021 08:21

This looks like a 3 cornered leek to me!

Quincie · 29/04/2021 08:32

wild garlic looks like hosta leaves, all slightly separate rather than from a central point, smaller and greener. Goes dark green on cooking, I have discovered.

MereDintofPandiculation · 29/04/2021 09:25

@SourMilkGhyll

Ah. Sounds like it isn't garlic then, and if the other ones are that invasive I think I'll just leave it where it is and admire it from afar!
Wild garlic is quite invasive too
MereDintofPandiculation · 29/04/2021 09:26

@Chalcroft

Does it smell of garlic? Wild garlic smells
So do a lot of related plants
Bluntness100 · 29/04/2021 09:29

Yeah but there is no mistaking wild garlic. Trust me I’ve a shit ton of it unfortunately. You’d not need to ask. You’d know Immediately.

DenisetheMenace · 29/04/2021 09:31

They don’t look like wild garlic flowers.

KaleKitchen · 04/05/2021 09:34

No, that is definitely not wild garlic. Personally I love the stuff Grinand forage it.

You can make gorgeous pesto, gnocchi, soup, pasta sauce, etc. With it. Scatter it fresh on salads. lizearlewellbeing.com/healthy-food/wonderful-wild-garlic/

I give you, my wild garlic stuffed mushrooms and a wild garlic parmesan cherry tomato spaghetti.

This stuff is green gold!!!

Is this wild garlic? PHOTO
Is this wild garlic? PHOTO
MereDintofPandiculation · 05/05/2021 12:25

Yeah but there is no mistaking wild garlic. Trust me I’ve a shit ton of it unfortunately. You’d not need to ask. You’d know Immediately. Yes, so do I. But I'm not convinced that a similar quantity of other Alliums wouldn't smell to the same extent.

archery2 · 05/05/2021 17:11

It looks like wild garlic to me - the test is, tear some and does it smell of garlic?

It could be allium triquetum (three-cornered garlic) an especially invasive kind. It's actually illegal to plant this in the wild, because it's so hard to control
www.plantlife.org.uk/uk/discover-wild-plants-nature/plant-fungi-species/three-cornered-garlic

We've got it in our garden, which is why I looked it up. It's a nightmare to get rid of - has spread everywhere and grows from tiny bulbs that can be hard to see, so you think you've cleared a patch but you haven't really.
If you are going to transplant some, I'd suggest keeping it only in a pot rather than in the ground, and keeping an eye if it spreads.

MereDintofPandiculation · 06/05/2021 10:10

archery "Wild garlic" is the accepted common name for a particular species of wild garlic ie Ramsons, Allium ursinum, and the OP's pic doesn't look like that - it lacks the wide leaves. As you say, it's probably three cornered garlic, which is a wild garlic but not Wild Garlic. Grin

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