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Old 28-07-2015, 11:08 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Jeff Layman[_2_] Jeff Layman[_2_] is offline
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On 28/07/15 00:16, Fran Farmer wrote:
On 28/07/2015 6:55 AM, Phil L wrote:

I've got about 50 of them and there must be another 4 - 5 hundred scattered
around the site


I never say no when I'm offered bulbs of any description given that I
have a large garden.


You've never come across Allium viminalis 'Hair', then. Should be
renamed Allium verminalis. Another appalling invasive plant whose seeds
get everywhere (I think they are more like small bulbils than seeds). If
you are offered it, my advice is to say "No"!

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Jeff