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Uncle Marvo writes

fumbler wrote in message
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Hope I'm not pushing my luck here! - posters have been very helpful,
please let me know if I'm becoming too greedy for info. I've got a
few gardening books with pics but really don't know where to start
looking to identify this. It looks like a giant chive. Long, thin,
clean - almost polished looking - green tubes about 3mm diameter,
almost 5 ft high, finishing with a needle point and a little pom-pom
cluster of now-brownish flowers , a ball about 4 cms diameter
located at about 25cms or so from the top of each stem. Persistent
rain has caused a lot of this to keel over so I'd like to snip that
back if it's safe to do so. Ground level? Could I/should I leave
those stems which are still upright and decorative? And what is it
called? thanks for any answers.

It's probably a giant chive. Really. Mine go like that. Possibly not
5', but definitely 4'. Has it gone hard yet?

There are a lot of alliums (onions and chives) grown for ornamental
purposes, but they will smell of onion if you crush them, and the
flowers are at the top of the stem.

Whoops! I didn't read it properly.

I'm wondering if this is one of the sedges or rushes?