⅓ cup fresh chives, chopped; 2 purple chive flowers; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1 clove garlic, microplaned; Directions. Combine softened butter, chopped chives, salt, and garlic in a bowl.

These pretty flowers will drop seeds in your garden that will pop up the next growing season as new plants. Plant them once, and you’ve got flowers for years!

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If you don’t want them to self-seed in your garden, cut the flower stalks at the base once the flowers fade. Sunlight. Chives need full sun, which is six or more hours of direct sunlight per day.

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