This plant is sent bare rooted and requires immediate planting upon arrival!
Garlic chives is so pretty when in flower that I grow it in the flower bed rather than the vegetable garden. Garlic chives is an Asian onion species native to the Himalayas (Nepal, Bhutan, India) and to the Chinese Province of Shanxi.
It grows in slowly expanding perennial clumps. The
leaves have a mild garlic flavour, are flat and about 0.5 cm wide. The
blossom is a flat-headed spray of star-shaped white flowers with a
pleasant perfume. Chinese chives are easy to grow and tolerant of a wide
range of soil conditions.
The flowers can be eaten as well as the leaves, and are sometimes used in Asian cooking before the blooms fully open. You’ll find garlic chives most often in Asian cookbooks; in fact, they are often called Chinese chives or Chinese leeks.
Links:
Backyard Patch Herbal
Gardening Know How
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In Bhutan the roots are also eaten, and highly prized.