inches above the mown lawn. When I finally asked her, she immediately said, "Sure !!! Take all you want... just don't leave holes in the lawn." That first year I dug a couple of dozen bulbs and immediately planted them in my flower bed. The following spring they popped up and bloomed in between the blooms on the hellebores and, well, everything else. They were beautiful little blooms...
The following fall I dug about six dozen of the bulbs from that same neighbors lawn... "What are you doing with them? Planting them in your garden ? Well, OK..." She was glad to get them out of her lawn... The thought of them as beautiful additions to a garden never entered her thinking.
I couldn't think of them as anything else................................................






I almost forgot... they are Nothoscordum bivalve [False Garlic, Crow Poison]

John - are these as prolific as Ornithogalum umbellatum aka Star of Bethlehem? I hope you are able to contain them in your chosen flower bed.

Several factors combine to somewhat limit the spread of these bulbs. These same factors have also limited the spread of Gooseneck Loosestrife [Lysimachia clethroides] and 'Vivid' Obedient Plant [Physostegia virginianum]. I'm not saying they don't try to spread... just that conditions here reduce their spread to a very manageable rate. The composition of our soil and its pH, the pH of the water supply, the shade from the Silver Maple, the constant winds, the temperature fluctuations as well as me and my mattock... all these factors and more tend to limit the spread of these plants.