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Plant ID

springer636springer636 Posts: 10
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I'd be grateful if someone could help me ID the below plants . When they first started to come up I assumed they were spring flowering bulbs there's but no sign of any flowers. Not sure if any of the 3 frost (?) damaged plants or the healthy one just behind them in the first pic are the same as the one in the second pic.

Thanks in advance for any help. :) 




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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    My guess would be Spanish bluebells, but l am by no means 100% sure, sorry.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    In which case, they probably would be flowering yet, though you might see small flower stems starting.
  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,154
    Spanish Bluebell (Hyacinthoides hispanica) ; to double check , dig up a bulb .
    If pure white , then definitely is !
    Best contained in a pot or disposed of by thorough digging up unless you want them to colonise your garden .
  • springer636springer636 Posts: 10

    Thanks for the replies.

    I had another look this morning and all the plants have flower stems emerging from the base. It seems like there might be two types of plants judging by the leaves so maybe there are English as well as Spanish bluebells? Guess I'll have to dig them up to find out like Paul said.



  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Leaves and flowers emerging still look like Spanish Bluebells.
    Do as Paul B3 suggests and dig one up.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    English bluebells have fairly narrow leaves, quite different to the strap-like leaves of the Spanish ones.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Spanish bluebells, I have some pink and white ones in the garden, I know they shouldn’t be there but I do like them. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,154
    With DampGardenMan there ; our native bluebell is a more 'refined' species with much narrower leaves .
    Quite unlike the 'bullish' and invasive nature of the above .
  • springer636springer636 Posts: 10

    I saw some English bluebells in a garden centre yesterday and, like you were saying, they look nothing like the bluebells coming up in my garden.

    I only moved here recently so I'm still getting to know the plants- there's a lot more below I'd like to identify if anyone can help; not sure if any are weeds....

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    Thanks :)

  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    edited April 2018
    Hello
    1. Green alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens, I think). Definitely  a weed in my garden,  but others disagree. Bane of my life!
    2. Not sure
    3. Not sure
    4. Pulmonaria
    5. Looks like oriental poppy (Papaver orientale)
    6. Ditto
    7. Forget me not (Myosotis sylvatica)
    8. Not sure
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
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