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Plant ID needed - newly sprouting, thought this was dead

Anna33Anna33 Posts: 316
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Hi, can anyone identify this plant, please?

It had been left by the previous owners as a dried up rootball in the garden, something that had been removed from the original plastic pot. I left it there all winter, thinking it was completely dead.

However, I went to have a tidy up today and it's got heaps of new shoots on.

Does anyone know what this is, and also how I would go about repotting it, as half the shoots are coming out from the sides of the plant?

Pics show shoots coming out of the side, plus a wider view to show the whole root ball.




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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Lilies of some type.  If they've been in there a few years, they would benefit from separating and re-potting.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Anna33Anna33 Posts: 316
    Oh no, what a shame! I really don't like lilies at all, thought it might have been something more interesting. Much as it goes against the grain to chuck any plant that is living, they are one of my least favourite flowers, so in to the great compost bin in the sky for this clump, then.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I've gone off them too. Perhaps you could leave it outside your house  for a passer by
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ManderMander Posts: 349
    Too bad we aren't neighbours! Lilies are one of my favourites but all of mine seem to have died.
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    Put them on free cycle, am sure someone would like them 
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • Cambridgerose12Cambridgerose12 Posts: 1,134
    Mander said:
    Too bad we aren't neighbours! Lilies are one of my favourites but all of mine seem to have died.
    I grow mine in pots in soil-based compost, which seems to work quite well (my garden is riddled with pests and has heavy clay soil). I have a very tall and quite narrow pot with a support in it. If anything the problem is that they get much larger than the advertised size so I keep having to give the enormous bulbs away and start over with shorter varieties! Sorry, as ever, the image has rotated itself but this was last year--Lilium 'Red Velvet' coming into bloom in July.

    The only ones I can keep in the ground are Lilium regale and L. martagon.

  • SophieKSophieK Posts: 244
    Offer them to someone, there are many lily lovers out there!
  • ManderMander Posts: 349
    @Cambridgerose12 Wow, nice! I had a few bulbs of the standard orange and yellow types that you get in poundland etc. and they kept coming back every year until one year they didn't. It's possible they got dug up and thrown out when the fence collapsed and the neighbours replaced it.
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