Can you help identify this?

Letyourselfgo

We've no idea what it is, we don't remember seeing it last year, for all I know it could be a weed but the first flower has popped out and it looks like it could be very beautiful.
Anyone know what it is?
Thanks


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richiek67

snow drop...doh!!

Letyourselfgo

richiek67 wrote: »

snow drop...doh!!

really I thought snow drops were sth else. Now I have to go take a pic of the flower in st endas park and see what that is.

Do you know how long they flower till? and does it not look like it has too much foilage then?

Pretty new to gardening (I should probably add

looksee

No its not a snowdrop. It could be a leucojum, but the flower does not look quite right. It looks very familiar but I'm not sure what exactly.

kylith

It's three cornered leek. I used to call them 'white bluebells' when I was a child. They are edible, with an onion-y, garlic-y flavour. However, they're very invasive and if you want to keep it, but not have your garden overrun, you might want to dig it up and replant it in a container.

http://eatlikeagirl.com/2010/06/05/edible-wild-flowers-three-cornered-leekwild-onion/

Letyourselfgo

kylith wrote: »

It's three cornered leek. I used to call them 'white bluebells' when I was a child. They are edible, with an onion-y, garlic-y flavour. However, they're very invasive and if you want to keep it, but not have your garden overrun, you might want to dig it up and replant it in a container.

http://eatlikeagirl.com/2010/06/05/edible-wild-flowers-three-cornered-leekwild-onion/

That's definitely it, thanks. Do you know how long it flowers for?

lottpaul

Definitely the wild garlic/three cornered leek. In my mind its only fit for spraying with weedkiller/digging up and jumping up and down on/dynamiting etc Most horrible and invasive thing -- get rid of it - kill it - give it to your worst enemy -- did I mention I don't like it?

Seriously if you really really want to keep it do as Kylith says but watch out for regrowth - even the smallest bit left in the ground will become a new plant.

Pretzill

wild garlic?

kylith

Letyourselfgo wrote: »

That's definitely it, thanks. Do you know how long it flowers for?

A couple of weeks in spring, if I remember right. Then it'll set seed.

greenart

Letyourselfgo wrote: »

We've no idea what it is, we don't remember seeing it last year, for all I know it could be a weed but the first flower has popped out and it looks like it could be very beautiful.
Anyone know what it is?
Thanks


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Break off a piece and smell it if it has a garlic smell it is wild garlic though on closer inspection the leaves are quite narrow for wild garlic so could be wild leek which is in the same family and also has good eating properties as wild garlic. I dont think it is a snow drop as the flower is different.
If it is wild garlic garlic leaves are very good for you. Boil up the leaves with some onion and carrot etc and veg or chicken stock then blend them or make a pesto from them. The flowers are edible also.
Or simply wash and add to a salad. Good anti viral properties and to reduce blood pressure. :-)

richiek67

Its a Snowdrop......

magicbastarder

if it is, it's a snowdrop new to science.

richiek67

lol...:)