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What's this?

FallonFallon Posts: 74
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Can anyone tell me what this is?  Not sure if it grass or a plant. Looks like grass with a tiny bulb at the bottom of the leaf. Clumps of them in several places in the garden.
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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It looks a bit like Crocosmia. I can't see the bulb part very well though. If it's crocosmia, that bulb is technically a corm, but it amounts to the same thing. You could google it and see if any of the bits look the same. The corms are like little bulbs initially, but the mature ones are slightly flattened on the top and bottom. They spread by producing more on top of each other. 
    There are cultivated ones, but also the somewhat thuggish montbretia, which is technically the same, but the it isn't as well behaved as the varieties that have been bred.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • FallonFallon Posts: 74
    Thanks Fairygirl. The leaves are softer and floppier than Crocosmia which I have had in my garden before.
    I might just have to wait and see how it turns out. The leaves don't smell like grass or but do smell a bit like iris. The dogs are eating the leaves just like grass and they are still alive.😁 I try to keep them away but there are little bunches all around the garden.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It could be one of the siberian or ensata Irises. Take  at those and see if there's a resemblance  :)

     I know what you mean about the crocosmia foliage - the picture of the whole clump did look softer than the pix of single stems  :)  
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • FallonFallon Posts: 74
    Thanks Fairygirl. The leaves do look more like the ensata iris. Time will tell what will blossom- if the dogs don't polish them off before that. 😁
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    If they're iris sibirica or ensata try and find a way to keep the dogs off as the flowers are lovely.
    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
  • FallonFallon Posts: 74
    Thanks Obelixx. I will do. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Are the serrated  leaves from the same plant? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    It looks like onion grass to me, a course grass that has little bulbs on the bottom. I had it in my lawn in France. A weed in your flower borders.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    On looking it up I have realised that mine was onion couch grass. Onion grass is related to garlic and smells oniony. Onion couch grass doesn't.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • FallonFallon Posts: 74
    Thanks everyone.  The leaves are not serrated. It could be the onion couch grass I think. 
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