Once winter bites most of the herbs I grow retreat for the winter but this year my Garlic Chives, having flowered late, are fighting the frost! Unlike the ordinary chives that have rounded foliage and purple ball shaped flowers, Garlic Chives have flat leaves and umbels of white flowers held high on slender stems. The flowers now dry, are covered in frost in the mornings creating a super architectual feature.
Garlic Chives are a great substitute for garlic in cooking as the leaves have a sweet garlic flavour. You can I believe, lift clumps in the autumn, pot them up and keep them growing on the kitchen windowsill to use throughout the winter. You can grow them from seed but its easier to buy plants in the spring.
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