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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: JohnnyD on June 08, 2015, 11:44:32 AM

Title: Where did that come from?
Post by: 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
Title: Re: Where did that come from?
Post by: ranunculus on June 08, 2015, 11:50:34 AM: Yellow asphodel perhaps?
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Post by: Brian Ellis on June 08, 2015, 12:08:57 PM: Some sort of Bulbinella I would think?
Title: Re: Where did that come from?
Post by: JohnnyD on June 08, 2015, 12:12:06 PM: Thanks Cliff - that rings a bell :P
J.
Title: Re: Where did that come from?
Post by: Maggi Young 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.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Bulbine)

http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantab/bulbineabys.htm (http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantab/bulbineabys.htm)
Title: Re: Where did that come from?
Post by: Carolyn on June 08, 2015, 01:55:33 PM: It looks very much like bulbine glauca, in flower in my garden just now.
Title: Re: Where did that come from?
Post by: Maggi Young on June 08, 2015, 03:11:47 PM: Is Bulbine glauca doing well for you in SW Scotland, Carolyn?
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Post by: Carolyn 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.
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Post by: Maggi Young 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" ::)
Title: Re: Where did that come from?
Post by: Carolyn 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.