Thanks, CaraRose! i've been having fun looking these up and learning how to harvest and cook 'em! Seems that they are definitely a Topsetting/Walking/ Egyptian/ Tree onion.

Pictures included for you, Looks an awful lot like garlic (Allium satvium) as it is going to flower/has flowered. The rigid stem was the "garlic scape" until just recently. Garlic has rather curled stems to their flower heads that are usually cut and used in the kitchen. But left to flower they uncurl, get a typical allium-like bloom and then get lots of little bulbils that can be planted. I've got garlic that is in the process of flowering at the moment. FataMorgana

I am not sure of exactly what to do in your situation - others here have helped me greatly, hopefully they will chime in. I have never had to move alliums other than after the season. My feeling would be to replant them and if they don't want to keep growing, dig them up and store them. The main problem with digging up alliums too early is that they might not have had an opportunity to go through a curing process that among other things prevents them from desiccating in storage. - But, your alliums were probably past their bloom when the gardener removed them which might be close enough. It seems to me that alliums are quite a bit different than some other ornamentals in that the plant with the bloom fading would be much closer to being dormant than for example a daffodil that needs its leaves for a while after blooming The elephant garlic flowers every year. What is generally planted is a bulb, which is at least a year old already. Allium Ampeloprasum can be propagated from seed, bulbils ( little mini bulbs that form at the top of the stem among the flowers), bulblets (little hard bulbs that form underground on the underside of the main bulb which seem to be a way for the plant to carry on even if it is totally destroyed - they can lay dormant in the soil until conditions are favorable - kind of like hardened seed), and bulbs. Varieties of allium ampeloprasum would have been bred (or discovered) to produce more bulb divisions, less bulbils, showier flowers, etc. Bulbs, bulbils, and bulblets will all produce clones of the parent (there can be some changes by chance or over time). A bulb should have all that is needed to flower in the following year, bulbils and bulblets might not - so they may need another year. Seeds can generally produce more variation (even though the plants may look identical, the variation will be there, that is beneficial to the plant population), but are off to a much slower start. They could flower in the second year of growth if conditions are right, but they will trudge on and make it eventually if they need to or die trying. Definitely be sure to save as many of the different clones of the plants that you have so it might be easier to maintain them over time. To make it short, I think you will have flowers next year if the plants survive transplanting and your winter. Best of luck!

gobs out there. Have dug up prob over a thousand in the last weeks or so.... I planted prob over 200 onion sets and buls last spring,,, Only got a handful.. they prob rotted or was eaten. In my many raised beds. Marked my plants etc with wooden bbq skewers...etc... and some with a small paper cup around the plant or see too. esp green beans.. many weeks ago during warm spells I dug up weeds.. I may have dig up my several garlic cloves plants. Cant tell them apart. I will take pic of the one I have left I believe its the realthing A Garlic plant. I assume when th buls I got on clerance and didnt get planted are goners. Thy are dried up.. I assume thye are useless? Dont they have to be alive looking?not gold or brown and dried? correct? so are there any reason to leave any of the "bulb" in the many raised beds? I left some last yr. thought they would repel creepos....HECK no it made no difference. thanks all