Another possible is Ipheion - which also smells 'onion-y'. If you put one of your NOID (no ID) bulbs between a rock and a hard place and squish it you can settle the matter quite quickly. BTW - Ipheion has flat leaves, quite narrow, and starry flowers, either white or pale blue, which have darker stripes running down the middle of each petal on the back. Another likely culprit is Muscari which tends to form clumps of bulblets around a bigger bulb. If you are fond of Muscari, simply remove as many of the bulblets as you can and replant the bigger bulbs. Do not wage war on them until you've seen which varieties you've inherited. There are some rather nice doubles and whites many gardeners would be glad to have. If it is Muscari - expect the leaves to be emerging (they look like skinny scallions) about now - in the summer heat. The next rapid multiplier is bluebells - whichever name the botanists have for them at present. However - only some of the bulbs will be round. Others will be long and odd-shaped. I strongly recommend you dig any of them up for disposal while they are in full growth and before they set seed. (Mid to late spring) That way you can usually catch them before they've started forming any new bulblets. Any that have formed will still be clinging to the adult bulb. Later, when summer is in and growth has stopped, if you move them, the young bulbs simply drop off and disappear into the dirt. (They're not silly!) ;-)))

azponder, when we have heavy rains there is essentially a stream in the back at the bottom of the hill. Eventually it will be a dry stream, but that is not in any kind of planning stages yet, just on my to be done list. This area doesn't seem to get much run-off as when looking at the picture, the lowest side is on the left, the highest the side near the house where there is only about 5 feet between the pond and the house, which will be given a pathway and a bench. I do have some low spots, along with holes (see the pup in the current picture). I think I'll use the dirt to fill in the holes, keep some for the berm and the rest for a low spot in the side area, mixed with good soil for grass planting. I got the main pond done. I was nervous about the fish being in the pool for too long so I got the pond finished yesterday afternoon enough to get the fish in there this morning. I don't know how much bacteria I have on my bioballs from the old pond being still early in the spring but some is better than none. My plants go in next even though I'm not sure one of my hardy lillies made the temporary move out of the pond. It was higher than the other one and looks a little sick and dried out even though I tried to keep it moist. I'll give it a shot and if not, then replace it. Here's the current picture with still needing rock work done and finishing touches. I'll update pictures as I progress. PS. My fish seem thrilled to be out of the baby pool and into their new home.

Acanthus mollis ??? Flora (Beware of the images on Google. Some are A spinosus mislabelled A mollis and most show mature foliage. Yours is juvenile. The link shows similar foliage and also illustrates the variation in leaf shape displayed by this plant when young.) Here is a link that might be useful: Acanthus mollis

??? I'm new to gardening and don't know what most of these terms mean. Know of anything a little simpler ie dark green leaves, flower stalk, hairy leaves, perennials, 12 - 18" high, sun/pt. shade. Like I said simple terms. LOL I don't mind spending the time on line searching, but have found that most of the sites don't show the foliage at all and go by the flower colour. I sure wish I had a digi camera. Guess I'm going to have to wait until it blooms, with my luck I'll be away when it does! Nett