A LITTLE BORDER HEDGE OF CHIVES

Whether or not you like chives to eat, they are very pretty plants with spikey, tubular, leaves which can be chopped into a salad or used in cooking.  Chives belong to the onion family, alliums: Allium schoenoprasum.  They also have edible flowers which are produced in my garden in abundance, and which attract pollinators.  I've grown my chives in a large tub for a few years and it created a large clump which I recently separated and planted as a little hedge in the border, alongside my lawn.  Although the divided plants are still young they are established enough to start flowering, and will continue to flower for some time. 

Chive flower

 BBC Food: Chives recipes (external link).

Young chive hedge

Above, my young chive hedge.  Apparently aphids don't like chives.  Good.  I don't like aphids.



We are now into June and anticipating glorious summer weather here in the UK.  Perhaps that's rather optimistic.  After some fabulous weather in recent weeks we are now being deluged, in West Yorkshire at least, by much needed rain, but let's hope it doesn't overdo it.  The sun hung around long enough for my garden room (which I call the Room, nothing to do with the movie) to be built but now it's persistently p***ing down.  Enough already!