Description

Brighten up your garden and kitchen with Allium schoenoprasum, commonly known as Chives. This versatile herb features grass-like, tubular mid-green leaves that add a delicate yet vibrant touch to both garden beds and containers. In spring, chives bloom with lovely rose-pink flowers that not only look beautiful but also attract pollinators. Known for its prolific flowering, Allium schoenoprasum has been a staple in cooking and natural medicine for thousands of years.

Key Features:

• Grass-like, tubular leaves that are perfect for both ornamental and culinary use
• Beautiful rose-pink flowers that attract bees and butterflies
• Known for its prolific flowering, adding charm to any garden space
• Long history of use in cooking, with a mild onion flavor perfect for seasoning
• Medicinal benefits, traditionally used for digestive health and more

Ideal for herb gardens, kitchen windowsills, or as an ornamental edge plant, Allium schoenoprasum is a hardy, low-maintenance choice that brings beauty, fragrance, and flavour to your home.

Repotting or planting

9cm marginal plants require potting into a larger mesh basket. Place in a pond no deeper than 1/3 maximum recommended planting depth to allow the plants to establish. 1ltr marginal plants do not require repotting, place in pond no deeper than 1/2 maximum recommended planting depth to allow the plants to establish. 3ltr and 5ltr plants do not require repotting, as they are larger more established plants they can be placed up to the maximum recommended depth. There is no need to remove the mesh basket.

Care instructions

Little maintenance is required. Little maintenance is required. Trim After foliage has died back in Autumn, trim to tidy. This plant prefers damp ground rather than in the pond.

Colour

Pink

Growth rate

Slow

Flowers

Jun- July

Sun/shade

Full sun – Part shade

Native

Season

Spring,Summer

Measurements in centimetres

Height Min –Max

20 -30

Depth Min-Max

0-2