Garlic Chives are also known as Chinese Chives or Chinese Leek. They are similar in appearance to ordinary chives but with a flatter broader leaf & a mild sweet garlic flavour.

Garlic Chives have beautiful white 'starry' allium flowers that would not go amiss in the flower garden. These flowers are also edible with a mild garlic taste and are loved by bees & butterflies.

Garlic Chives are perennial and the 'cut & come' again leaves benefit from snipping regularly to encourage new growth but do leave some to flower.

Garlic Chives are used extensively in Oriental cooking adding flavour to lots of dishes like stir fries, soups, omelettes and as garnishes to salads. They also make great micro-greens & baby leaves.

Garlic Chives are a real winner not only edible leaves/flowers but pretty enough for the flower garden & food for beneficial insects.

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March-May.

Keep watered. After a couple of years chives like to be divided in March or October, as it stops the bulbs becoming congested and less productive. Just divide up a clump into smaller clumps and pot up straight away - new plants for free. Although it is a perennial evergreen in very cold winters it may die back, but will regrow in spring, a thick layer of mulch around the plant in autumn may help.