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Any idea what this is?

Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
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I've started the autumn clear up and have come across several clumps of these -

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Any ideas?

 I also hope they're not poisonous as my dog found them quite tasty

Thanks

 


Billericay - Essex

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,136

    It won't let me zoom in on it - does it have bulbs, corms or rhizomes?


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • little-annlittle-ann Posts: 878

    could be hemoracalis Day Lillys

  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066

    It reminds me of the yellow/white flowers that grow in spikes and self seed everywhere. I can't remember their name but they grow a bit like verbascum.  I suppose it could also be an Iris. Can't zoom in so its difficult to tell.

    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

    Hi Dove - they look like rhizomes

    ann - I'm not sure the leaves not quite right for a day lilly, but would be nice if they were

    Dunno why sometimes the pics don't upload properly - I'll try again -

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    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066

    The leaves at the bottom look too stiff to be a day lilly.

    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,064

    They look a lot like the flag iris that's trying to take over my garden after escaping from my unlined, natural pond which it is busy terraforming.   A pest if it is.

    Plant it in a pot and see what it does there before you let it loose in your garden.

     

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

    obelixx - you may well have it. I do have 2 wildlife ponds at the other end of the gdn which have flag iris. I'll try and battle my way down there next week and see if they're the same.

    Yviestevie - I know the ones you mean, and yes could well be. Little creamy flowers on a stem a bit like an iris

    There are clumps of it appearing all over the place.

    Thanks


    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,136

    Sisyrinchium striatum? http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/sisyrinchium-striatum/classid.3612/


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  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698

    That is Carex pendula, a very attractive but very invasive self-seeding grass!

     

    http://www.zauberstaude.de/shop_cfg/Pflanzenfoto/Carex_pendula.jpg

     

    http://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/plant_sizes/carex_pendula_907~3.jpg

     

    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,136

    For some reason I'm now able to zoom in on the pic - so scrub my suggestion of Sisyrinchium.

    I'm tempted to go along with the Carex theory. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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