Chive Varieties

Garlic Chives

While common chives taste like onions, garlic chives taste like garlic.

Best Features:

1) Garlic chives are perennial plants.

2) They have a garlic flavor and smell which is what makes garlic chives deer resistant!

3) Garlic chives have white flowers in late summer/fall.  The pollinators love the flowers too!

4) The leaves and the young flowers are edible.

5) The plants will get up 18 inches high and wide.

Garlic chive leaves

6) You can get more garlic chives by dividing the plants or saving the seeds.

7) Garlic chives can grow in full sun or part shade.

8) They are drought tolerant too.

9) The leaves are flat.

 

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