Sacha wrote:
On 16/5/08 12:06, in article , "stuart
noble" wrote:

Nick Maclaren wrote:

Onion weed? I think that we need a bit more information :-)


Looks like a white bluebell and smells strongly when crushed. Allium
triquetum I think.
As I said, I'm working from memory here. Very frustrating :-)

Aka Ransoms or wild garlic. Dig it up or spray it seems to be the only way.
I rather like it so when I had it in a previous garden, I always kept some
of it. But it absolutely fills the verges of some of the lanes round here.

The local gamekeeper claimed eating a raw bulb of ransoms (wild garlic)
would cure the common cold. It certainly prevented infection as no-one
would go near him after he had eaten one!
(They smell very strongly of garlic when in flower, ie now)

I thought from the initial description it was one of the other wild
onion family plants that has huge numbers of bulblets and looks like a
cross between chives and onion. Almost grass or reed like in appearence.

Regards,
Martin Brown

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