Author Topic: Where did that come from? (Read 573 times)

JohnnyD · « **on:** June 08, 2015, 11:44:32 AM »

This thing has emerged in one of our troughts.
I 'sort of' recognize it but that is as far as I can get.
I'm sure we grew it deliberately at some time long ago.
HELP

JohnnyD

ranunculus · « **Reply #1 on:** June 08, 2015, 11:50:34 AM »

Yellow asphodel perhaps?

Brian Ellis · « **Reply #2 on:** June 08, 2015, 12:08:57 PM »

Some sort of Bulbinella I would think?

JohnnyD · « **Reply #3 on:** June 08, 2015, 12:12:06 PM »

Thanks Cliff - that rings a bell

J.

Maggi Young · « **Reply #4 on:** June 08, 2015, 12:24:40 PM »

That feathery style is a diagnostic, I think - so a Bulbine .... off to check......

Bulbine abyssinica perhaps?

http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Bulbine

http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantab/bulbineabys.htm

Carolyn · « **Reply #5 on:** June 08, 2015, 01:55:33 PM »

It looks very much like bulbine glauca, in flower in my garden just now.

Maggi Young · « **Reply #6 on:** June 08, 2015, 03:11:47 PM »

Is Bulbine glauca doing well for you in SW Scotland, Carolyn?

Carolyn · « **Reply #7 on:** June 08, 2015, 06:12:43 PM »

Not really! I always try to save seed (it doesn't set many) and also overwinter a pot of it in the unheated greenhouse. I don't think it appreciates the winter wet.

Maggi Young · « **Reply #8 on:** June 08, 2015, 07:20:42 PM »

Thanks for the info, Carolyn. Wondered if it was worth trying here - getting too idle for too much cossetting of plants - I'm learning to properly appreciate any "volunteers"

Carolyn · « **Reply #9 on:** June 08, 2015, 08:26:31 PM »

I don't do cossetting either! The bulbine gets slung under the staging and ignored all winter, with no water, along with the agapanthus.

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