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What is this?

teamdottiteamdotti Posts: 3
Does anyone know what this is?  I pulled it as a weed and found 70+ bulbs beneath it 

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  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    They might not be related. I think it is a kind of willow herb.

    Luxembourg
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The bulbs are probably crocosmia
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • teamdottiteamdotti Posts: 3
    Thank you.  This was in a pot with a bush fuchsia.  We've never planted crocosmia in this garden.  The bulbs were definitely attached to the plant.  It was like lifting new potatoes!
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    The bulbs are not crocosmia but I don't know what they are.
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Sorry but those bulbs were not attacked to your green plant.
    Looking closely the bulbs appear to be daffodils.
    You can clearly see the pointed top and the round flat base plate where the roots would be.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I think that a purple toadflax (linaria) has seeded into a  pot that was previously planted with daffodils, possibly dwarf type, and then a fuchsia planted on top.  A lot of my bulb pots have linaria seeded into them.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I agree with the above, those plants haven’t come from those daffodil bulbs, I agree it could be Linaria but I’m not convinced,  it’s in full flower now, the OP’s looks like just green. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I think it all came up in one due to dry weather. The bulbs are daffodils.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • teamdottiteamdotti Posts: 3
    Thank you so much for all your comments.  I can see what you mean that they are daffodil bulbs.  Really strange though - the fuchsia has been in the same huge pot for perhaps 15 years.  Never planted anything else in there.  This year it was obviously struggling so replaced most of the compost.  Suppose a bulb could have crept in somehow (we live near the sea so have no squirrel input), but there are dozens of these bulbs which happened to be directly under the strange weed.  Think I'll plant them and see what happens!
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