Brother Tim gave me a clump of garlic chives five or so years ago. I don’t even remember they are there until September when they burst into bloom. The flowers are striking, particularly in the shady raised bed, they populate. What I noticed today is that they are a great pollinator favorite, so they provide a great place for me to stalk bugs with my macro lens. Before I had my lens focused, two beautiful golden digger wasps traipsed through the flower heads while chasing each other.
This plant is growing for me in a raised bed that is under a giant Douglas fir tree that hogs all the water from above and below. Somehow, garlic chives don’t seem to mind. The clump is spreading a bit every year. My future plans for the plant will be to pull a few divisions off of it and add them to the memory garden to attract even more fun pollinators.