Loads of white flowers - what are they?

[gardeningnovice5]

Lots of these have sprung up in my flower bed. They haven’t bloomed yet but look like they will do soon. Does anyone know what they are?

Leucojam, possibly. It's like a summer snowdrop, I think.

I think they may be wild garlic or similar - I have them too and they make my front garden smell very oniony!

Not from that picture!

Are those the leaves? Do the leaves have any smell when you crush them? Can you give another photo when the flowers are out, making sure the flowers are in focus? Putting a piece of card or even your hand just behind the flower (touching it) may help the camera to focus on the flower.

Might be few flowered leek?

I’ve just found a flower in bloomand picked it - here’s another photo.

I also just snapped a leaf in half and think they do smell oniony!

First photo does look like few flowered leek, and it would indeed smell oniony. You can eat it like you would chives, but watch as it spreads!

Second picture, is that definitely the same plant and not a different one coming through? It looks more like it's growing in grass and would fit cuckoo flower which is just coming out now..

It’s not actually growing on the grass - I picked a flower then placed it on the lawn to take a picture.

I think they are leek. How funny, they just arrived! Are they a good thing to keep? They seem to have taken over an area about 3 feet by 2 feet. Good ground cover I suppose!

Wild garlic

Wild garlic. We have a patch and there are lots currently on the local footpath

That’s not wild garlic. The leaves are much wider and the flowers don’t look like that

Just scanned the photo with my plant app and it says it’s cuckoo flower

Hmm - I don’t think it’s a cuckoo flower as the leaves are different I believe. Here’s another photo showing the leaves. When you snap a leaf they smell very oniony.

The leaves on that last photo are different - looks like the white flower is growing up in a bed of something else. That definitely isn’t wild garlic - leaves are very different

This is wild garlic - just about to make some scones with it.

Three cornered leek? Leaves smell oniony, it spreads like mad especially in wet ground, you see it by the river a lot

I’m 99% sure it’s this - looks very similar:

https://www.wildfooduk.com/edible-wild-plants/three-cornered-leek/

Oh dear…! Would you keep it or get rid?

“An invasive species brought over to the UK from the Mediterranean, it is an offence under Schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act in England and Wales to plant or otherwise cause to grow this species in the wild.”

There is a thread on three cornered leek at the moment. Seems like it is the time of year for it.

well once the flowers are gone you just have the onion smell - and it’s sort of a stale onion smell. It does really spread. I guess the problem is although you did not plant it you can’t put it in your garden waste, that would be “causing” it. If you dig it up you’ll have to rot it, or burn it?

Three cornered leek and it is quite invasive

I think they are a type of allium

I know it as onion weed. It is very invasive. I thought it was pretty at first, and five years later it still carpet bombs my garden every spring. Awful stuff

Cuckoo flower

I've spent the last 3 weekends trying to dig three corned leek out of my borders and now out of my lawn. I ignored it for 3 years because I didn't know what it was and I thought the white flowers were pretty. It's incredibly invasive so I would try and get rid of it now. A professional gardener looked at mine, said weed killer won't work and advised the no dig method for the patch I'd not yet dug. I so wish I'd done something about it 3 years ago