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Some plant identification please
On saturday I was in Thamesmead doing a favour for the family picking up a chest freezer and I was given a load of plant pots, odds and sods ornaments and this pot with a couple of plants in it. One of them I know is a Crocosmia...but I don't know which one. But I don't know what the other plant is.
Also when I got home from work today I noticed this little flower in a verge of the driveway. Not seen it before and was wondering what it was.
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Not sure about the first, but the flower is lobelia.
Crocosmia is the one with the long tall leaves at 9 o'clock in the first picture.
Spotted leaved plant is Eucomis bicolor ; S.African bulb which normally overwinters , but best lifted if severe winter is 'on the cards' ! Bears green/purple flowers which have fragrance of rotten meat (!)
That sounds quite horrible, Paul!
Jetmorgan, I think you've also got a dandelion in there, and possibly oxalis (a very enthusiastic weed).
PS:- Eucomis require maximum sunshine to flower well !
The yellow flowering Oxalis is hard to remove from pots ; even small plants form a tenacious taproot .
I have never noticed a rotting smell from eucomis but some people have.
Mine stay out in a pot in the winter, in a sheltered position, in SW Scotland.
They're beautiful plants Joyce21 ; I think the smell emanates during particularly warm weather .
One of natures marvellous adaptations for pollination