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Is this a weed, please?

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  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    I never imagined hyacinths could do such things! I have put a reminder in my diary for autumn to buy more, though. Might even try some pink ones. This has been a nice little surprise.

    (Never knew bluebells could be anything but blue, either... I'll keep an eye on those when they flower.)

    Thanks, all!
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Native common bluebells are blue and not that common anymore as they are not as vigorous as Spanish bluebells which have been introduced and are spreading fast and also hybridising with th enatives so do be careful not t buy or be given the Spanish kind.

    Hyacinths come in a wide range of colours now so you can have loads of fun with those.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It's quite possible that there's been an immature [pink] bulb in with the whites, and it's only now that it's mature enough to flower. 

    I often see those crossed pink Spanish bluebells [yuk] - white ones as well. Fortunately we still have plenty of native ones. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    A weed is a plant growing where it is not wanted.  You answer your own question.

    But if you want a name ... it's a hyacynth, poor quality, possibly a planted-out exhausted forced house plant.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    Thanks, @Fairygirl- that's another possibility. 
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