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PURPLETRACE
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Hiya. I'm new to gardening and just moved into a house with an overgrown garden. I've found round disc-shaped bulbs, they look like huge red blood cells. They have tiny roots coming out of them but no new growth. I found them in a rockery near a pond that has sunlight most of the day. Seems to be good earth, not too sticky or sandy. Does anyone have any idea what they could be?
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Either cyclamen hederafolium or cyclamen coum - the first will flower in the late summer/autumn, before they grow their beautiful frosted leaves. The second will flower in the very early spring, around the same time as snowdrops.
Lucky you - we found the same when we moved into this garden - beautiful! I was thrilled as they were our first 'discovery' here and I'd always wanted a garden with cyclamen in it.
I wonder whether you have the white or the pink, or some of each? Those huge 'corms' are very old - they start off quite tiny and get bigger and bigger each year - we have some like dinner plates.
It sounds as if you have a lovely garden.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Welcome purpletrace
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They sound like spent montbretia bulbs to me, being red.
I wondered about that Lyn but then thought they'd have leaves. But maybe old ones don't.
They're more red blood cell shaped than cyclamen
In the sticks near Peterborough
Having seen plenty of red corpuscles, (if under a microscope), cyclamen and crocosmia, I'll go with the crocosmia.
Trace, if you can't do a photo can you say how huge? Also were they on the surface or did you dig them up from below the surface? And are they red or brown?
In the sticks near Peterborough