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  Posted by keeleykins (U14407204) on Saturday, 7th April 2012

  Hi I have started to notice quite a number of the following plants starting to come up can you help to indentify it from the photo link.
  
  I think it is wild garlic and what do I do with it as it is everywhere.
  

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  Posted by Berghill (U2333373) on Saturday, 7th April 2012

  There is no mistaking the appalling stench of wild garlic. Closer view of the flowers would confirm it. But, if it is then the only answer is to move house.

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  Posted by poshHebeJeebie (U9319867) on Saturday, 7th April 2012

  Moving house may be a little drastic - and it may be that a measure of control of the dreaded plant can be achieved.
  
  On no account try to dig it up and get rid of it. It has lots on mini-bulbils that drop off and set new plants, thus prolonging the agony of its appearance each year.
  
  Glysophate! It really is the only way to get rid of it, and the sooner it's done the better. It may need repeated applications, but over the years it will gradually be eradicated. There's plenty of this stuff in the wild - domestic back gardens don't need it! (Voice of experience here - and even after more than a decade of attack, I still get rogue plants).
  
  PHJ

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  Posted by Goldilocks (U2169760) on Saturday, 7th April 2012

  I am pretty sure it is not wild garlic. The pendulous bell- like flowers don't look anything like garlic, which has flowers typical of the onion family.

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  Posted by Goldilocks (U2169760) on Saturday, 7th April 2012

  This is a wild garlic flower:
  
  
  Could they be spring snowflakes? I can't see the flowers well enough to tell.

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  Posted by Berghill (U2333373) on Saturday, 7th April 2012

  Must confess to being facetious when I said 'move house'. I wondered if it was Allium when there was no mention of the smell. A close up of the flower would help no end, but it is possibly Leucojum vernum, Spring Snowflake.

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  Posted by Goldilocks (U2169760) on Saturday, 7th April 2012

  ....and wild garlic does not flower until May / June.

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  Posted by Diana Hicks (U1338333) on Saturday, 7th April 2012

  Hello Keeleykins,
  
  I think you will find that your plant is a Three Cornered Leek. (Allium Triquetrum). I have loads in the garden and it is a devil to get rid of. When we were on holiday in the Isles of Scilly several years ago, we brought some of the bulbs home. It certainly knows how to grow. It is really pretty until it decides to flop all over the place. I just go round and pull up handfuls of it and compost the leaves but not the bulbs as they will just keep on growing. It looks like an oversized snowdrop, but really smells strongly of onions. The leaves are triangular which makes it very easy to identify. Good luck in getting rid of it. I now leave some in pots around the garden.

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  Posted by keeleykins (U14407204) on Saturday, 7th April 2012

  HI Diana I think you have it as it's stem is triangular and a very onioney smell
  and does Flop. Have dug up lots of it last year, there seems to be hundreds of
  bulbs once you dig in. Will take on all the advice given thanks to all for the help.
  

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