Growing Garlic

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19 Oct 08 Maria (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
I have something growing in my garden that I hope someone could recognise from my description. I thought it may be garlic as when i tear the leaves they smell like garlic. It comes out of the ground as one single stem with the leaves coming off the centre like onion or garlic, the stem is the thickness of a leek and it gets a purple flower head on the top almost the size of a tennis ball. Is this garlic, can i eat it?
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22 Nov 10 jared (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
sounds like an ornamental Allium. If you feel the flowers are beautiful you can nurture the plant.
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