Are these just weeds?

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  1. borrowers

    borrowers Gardener

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    They look too nice to be weeds but i have no idea what they are. They are all coming up in the black pots that have just been left all year.

    Sorry i can't get any closer shots of them, still working out camera!
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    Thanks. [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG]albums/jj220/borrowers/whatarethese002.jpg[/img]
     
  2. strongylodon

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    Look like Bluebells to me but could be something totally different. :D
     
  3. Sarraceniac

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    happens to me all the time Borrowers. I have a litre, pop some plants in, don't label and when they appear the following year can't remember anything about them. :D Seriously they don't look like any weed I know. Just grow them and see. And if the drugs squad comes knocking on your door deny all knowledge. [​IMG]
     
  4. Marley Farley

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    :D I think we all do this from time to time borrowers... They do look rather like a bulb type plant pushing through...Grow them on so we can all see what your mystery plants are...! :D The other thing of course is weeds do not self seed themselves in such perfect planting positions... Definitely something you have planted I think too borrowers.... ;) :D
     
  5. Celia

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    I think they're bluebells too, got loads like it in the garden where the bluebells should be.
     
  6. borrowers

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    Thanks all
    Sarraceniac, could have been [​IMG]

    No really, i know i haven't planted bluebells definately no bulbs.

    Unless [​IMG] do they start as corm like seeds? I found some in an envelope last year & stuck them in but thought they were something else. Don't remember putting them in all the pots though :confused:

    Never mind I'll just let them carry on & see what happens.

    Cheers
     
  7. pete

    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    My bluebells are in full leaf and with flower spikes and buds, so I dont think they are bluebells.

    But they do look like some kind of bulb/corm.
     
  8. borrowers

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    Hope they're worth the wait after all this [​IMG]

    Actually it's quite nice having something coming as a surprise.

    cheers
     
  9. Johnny

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    We've got a lot of the same looking leaves coming up and I think they are grape hyacinth at a guess. We have masses coming up everywhere.
     
  10. borrowers

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    As i said Johnny, i didn't plant any bulbs out so they must have been put there by birds. I didn't realise until i got some snowdrops and asked on here how i got them, that 'bulb' plants also get seeded by birds ect.

    Can you put any photo's of them on here?

    cheers
     
  11. youngdaisydee

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    I like your signature borrowers..

    Grape hyacinth, my first thought..
     
  12. borrowers

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    Hi YDD,
    so thats 2 for bluebells, 1 against bluebells and 2 for grape hyacinth. I can't wait.

    Thanks for noticing little Joyce i'm so proud of doing that, i even cropped the pic first then reduced it cos it came out too big first time. [​IMG]

    I didn't think anyone noticed :( [​IMG] Actually i was trying to get it in my avatar or atavar as i keep calling it :D . Never mind i have achieved two technical things on here today
    ,although not exactly as i wanted.

    cheers
    cheers
     
  13. daitheplant

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    borrowers, I think a toss up between Bluebells and Muscari. [​IMG]
     
  14. youngdaisydee

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    I knew it, I just knew it...DAVID. :D
     
  15. borrowers

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    HaHa have i stumbled apon something here? Is David trying to trick me?

    Muscari is the same as grape hyacinth isn't it? I googled the name actually. thanks for the whistle hint david otherwise i would have added another name on the 'maybe' list [​IMG]

    cheers
     
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