£4.00

A low maintenance perennial herb, chives are grown for their pungent, mild tasting leaves that are delicious when chopped up finely and mixed into a salad or added to other dishes – they go particularly well with potatoes and egg.

Type

• Perennials

Foliage: Deciduous

Hardiness: Hardy

Vigour: Fast growing

Uses

• Beds and borders
• Cottage style garden
• Contemporary style garden
• Gravel garden
• Mediterranean style garden
• Herbal

Special features

• Attractive to wildlife
• Low maintenance
• Attractive to bees

Dimensions

Size: Small

Pot size: 9cm

Eventual height: 30cm

Eventual spread: 30cm

Positions

• Sun

Aspects

• South
• East
• West

Soil types

• Sandy
• Normal
• Clay

Soil pH ranges

• Acid
• Neutral
• Alkaline