Chives (garlic and regular)
Allium tuberosum and Allium schoenoprasum
Garlic chives and regular chives growing together in one pot. The white, starry late-summer flowers are the garlic chives (flat leaves, mild garlic taste); regular chives have hollow round leaves and purple pompom flowers in early summer.
Pull out the dry yellow leaves and cut the clump back once it dies down for winter. Deadhead the flowers if you don't want seedlings everywhere. The clump can be split in spring to make more plants.
- Common name
- Chives (garlic and regular)
- Section
- Fruit, veg & herbs
- Spot
- Patio
- Soil
- Compost and vermiculite mix
- Options
Potential
A kitchen-herb clump for a pot, edible bed or border edge, with flowers adding seasonal interest.
- From
- A local independent garden centre, May 2026
- Age
- About 1 year
- Next repot
- Around Mar 2027
- Edible
- ✅ Yes for us, but not for Tinks: chives are toxic to cats.
- Hardy
- ✅ Fully
- Garden-centre price
- about £7
Did you know?
The smallest member of the onion family. Its purple flowers are edible too.
Care & updates
- Next root check
- Mar 2027
- What to expect
- Fresh leafy growth from spring. Trim often to keep it bushy and tasty. Flowers Jun–Jul.
- Feeding
- Every 42 days, Apr–Aug, with Seaweed feed (herbs taste better kept lean)
- Observation
Healthy clump in flower with white star-shaped flower heads. Some dry, yellowed leaves at the base of the clump.
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