Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Women harvesting Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) in greenhouse on commercial farm in Tanzania, East Africa. October 2011.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Woman harvesting Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) with sharp knife on a commercial farm in Tanzania, East Africa.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Worker holding Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) harvested on a commercial farm, Tanzania, East Africa.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) harvested on a commercial farm, Tanzania, East Africa.

David Woodfall / Pots of Vipers bugloss (Echium vulgare) and Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) on urban roof tops to encourage resident honey bees, Manchester Art gallery, England, UK, June 2014.

David Woodfall / Pots of Vipers bugloss (Echium vulgare) and Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) on urban roof tops to encourage resident honey bees, Manchester Art gallery, England, UK, June 2014.

Kerstin Hinze / Chives in flower (Allium schoenoprasum) Lower Saxony, Germany

MYN / Paul Harcourt Davies / Chive (Allium schoenoprasum) flower, a wild onion that is also widely cultivated as a herb, Italy, May. meetyourneighbours.net project

Simon Colmer / Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) in flower, UK

Orsolya Haarberg / Siberian chives (Allium schoenoprasum ssp. sibiricum) Varanger peninsula, Nesseby, Finnmark, Norway.

Wild Wonders of Europe / O. Haarberg / Sea mayweed (Matricaria / Tripleurospermum maritima) and Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) flowering, Kallskr, Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / O. Haarberg / Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) in flower growing on lichen covered rocks, Kanholmsfjrden, Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden, June 2009