If it's arum maculatum, as philippa says it can be very invasive and damn near impossible to get rid of.
Nice to have 1 or 2, but they seed everywhere. Roundup has no effect thanks to the shiny leaves, and even a minute bulbil buried a couple of feet down will shoot up through the heaviest waterlogged clay.
As you may have guessed, I have a problem with this one! Was hoeing again today, but still they keep coming through
Of course if it's not, then don't worry, and either way - Happy Christmas
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Happy Christmas to you also and many thanks. I have just googled arum lily and I can remember these from earlier in the year. Had know idea what they where - but they have a really unpleasant smell.
We have been digging over the bed to put in conifers - trying to make the garden a little more user friendly and less hard work
Yes at least I think that is what the walnut looking bulbs grow into - been trying to find a picture of it flower - it has dark purple/black coloured flowers that open up from the spike shown in the first picture
Happy Christmas ???? to you also and many thanks. I have just googled arum lily and I can remember these from earlier in the year. Had know idea what they where - but they have a really unpleasant smell.
We have been digging over the bed to put in conifers - trying to make the garden a little more user friendly and less hard work
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I'd guess arum lily too, perhaps one of the more tender types with spotted leaves, judging by the shoot.
If it's arum maculatum, as philippa says it can be very invasive and damn near impossible to get rid of.
Nice to have 1 or 2, but they seed everywhere. Roundup has no effect thanks to the shiny leaves, and even a minute bulbil buried a couple of feet down will shoot up through the heaviest waterlogged clay.
As you may have guessed, I have a problem with this one!
Was hoeing again today, but still they keep coming through
Of course if it's not, then don't worry, and either way - Happy Christmas
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
We have been digging over the bed to put in conifers - trying to make the garden a little more user friendly and less hard work
Found these pictures - I think this might be them
That looks more like Dracunculus vulgaris.
Is that a picture of your plant?
Arum maculatum is the native plant known as Jack in the pulpit, Lords and Ladies and numerous others.
What I know as Arum lily is Zantedeschia aethiopica.
The latest pictures aren't either of those.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yes at least I think that is what the walnut looking bulbs grow into - been trying to find a picture of it flower - it has dark purple/black coloured flowers that open up from the spike shown in the first picture
Google Dracunculus vulgaris and have a look. Sounds like it and looks like it.
In the sticks near Peterborough
just done that and think you might be right - I know somewhere I have pictures of it in flower - will try and hunt them down
Thanks for your help
We have been digging over the bed to put in conifers - trying to make the garden a little more user friendly and less hard work
Dragon arum or Dracunculus vulgaris lorr, not arum lily
https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/6115/Dracunculus-vulgaris/Details
below is arum lily
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=177
In the sticks near Peterborough