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What do you think these are? ID help please. Hard white tuber-type-things

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I'll pull them all up, plant them in pots and run a book.
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    Fire said:
    ....Spanish bluebells ......  I would leave them in the ground and cover with weed membrane.
    They grow through weed membrane in my garden😬
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @Fire. I have industrial quantities of Spanish bluebells and they are absolutely nothing like that.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Well, definitely not crocus that’s for certain. 

    That’s a bulb not a corm, so could be bluebells ... pot some up and show us when
    something appears 😊 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    If you crush bluebell bulbs underfoot on a hard surface, they produce a really sticky mess which is one way of distinguishing them.  Most other bulbs retain a lot of their inner layered structure when crushed in the same way.  This was discovered when digging-up Spanish bluebells and deciding to try stamping on them as an instant disposal method!  Sadly, a few snowdrops, narcissi and tulips got the same treatment which is how I discovered this particular difference. :D
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Loraine3Loraine3 Posts: 579
    What about Grape Hyacinths, can't remember the proper name.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    edited August 2020
    Definitely not alliums then if they don't smell of onions! Might possibly be muscari?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    SlipperyElm said:
    Looks like one of the Gladiolus family.
    Can't be gladiolus family I'm afraid  ... they have corms not bulbs. 
     :) 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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