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Is this a weed, please?

WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960

Was expecting bluebells!
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  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    Looks like a hyacinth to me, does it have a scent? I doubt that's a weed.
    Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

    Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    Thanks. No discernible scent. I do have white hyacinths a little distance away... but not pink. Can they change colour?
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited March 2023
    Not a weed!
    Agree Hyacinth.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • TingersTingers Posts: 4
    It's a pink bluebell. We get them within our self-set bluebells. I think it's just a natural variation.

  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    You do get pink Spanish bluebells, but the pic looks much more like hyacinth to me.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited March 2023
    You do get pink Spanish bluebells, but the pic looks much more like hyacinth to me.
    I agree.
    Hyacinthoides.....Pink bluebell flowers have a stalk and the flowers dangle down.

    Hyacinth flowers have barely any stalk.
    Pics show white  ones
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    It’s a hyacinth, probably someone had them indoors and put them in the garden when they were over.  They get steadily weaker and the flowers get fewer,  still nice for early blooms though,  they’ll last until the bluebells come in May. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    edited March 2023
    Thanks. I have definitely not planted any pink hyacinths though nor had any indoors. It's a bit of a mystery. They do somewhat resemble the white ones which are out now, too, a few metres away.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    If the ones you planted have been in a few years they may have had pink babies and, being young, their flower stalk will not be as full as a mature hyacinth.   They may also have cross pollinated with some nearby Spanish bluebells and that would explain the difference.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited March 2023
    I have pink bluebells, and treasured whites. I've never planted either. They just happen.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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