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Plant ID

LearningslowlyLearningslowly Posts: 51
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Last year I was given 4 bulbs but the donor didn't know what they were. I put them in a pot in the greenhouse and this is the result. Any ideas what they are please?


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  • RobmarstonRobmarston Posts: 338
    I’d say alliums. But they’re not well. They’ve missed out on something - light, cold, nutrition. Someone else here might know specifically. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Allium Bulgaricum I think 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited April 2020
    nectaroscordum siculum is how I know it, but it may well have changed
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    edited April 2020
    Allium Nectaroscordum I think.
    If you get them outside - acclimatised first, they'll be much happier. 
    Lovely plants.  :)

    Is it the same plant @Lyn? 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Nectaroscordium siculum.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Ooooh 3 of us simultaneously.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LearningslowlyLearningslowly Posts: 51
    Thanks everyone, the general consensus here and in a Facebook group I also quizzed, is that it is Nectaroscordum siculum 'Sicilian honey garlic'. 
    I will harden them off and let the bees have their fill before planting them out in the border in September/October.
    Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think...
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Nectaroscordum siculum.......Also known as Allium siculum, known as honey garlic, Sicilian honey lily, Sicilian honey garlic, or Mediterranean bells,
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
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