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another bulb from nowhere and a baby shrub

nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
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Hi folks, the bulb appeared this year, just the one, nothing new planted and there are no others out there. I wondered if it might be a muscari of some sort

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The seedling appeared last year, it produced 4 leaves. A few more this year. Slow but it's seeded in very poor soil under an old laburnum. It has an inch of woody stem from last year plus another inch now and is deciduous

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In the sticks near Peterborough

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  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307

    The bulb looks awfully like a Muscari. There are white ones like that.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Thanks Berghill. I had some white ones in the distant past, very tight flower heads, looked a bit regimental. This is nicer.

    Could this have seeded from a blue, or a cross of 2 different blues do you think? (The white ones where 20 years ago in another garden) 

     



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,064

    Have a look at this lot and compare - https://www.google.be/search?q=muscari%2Bphotos&biw=1584&bih=747&site=webhp&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=X-5HVdb1B8atU-SlgJAD&ved=0CDkQ7Ak&dpr=1

    No idea about the baby I'm afraid.

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  • kleipieperkleipieper Posts: 563

    White Spanish bluebell?

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Thanks obelix, mine looks more open than most of these but I shall keep looking.

    Thanks kleipieper, I should have mentioned the size. It's only about 6" tall, I have some of those you mention, huge by comparison.



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Update.

    The bulb now has seed pods forming in the style of muscari. Thanks Berghill and obelixx

    The baby has 2 more pairs of leaves and looks like a lilac.



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307

    Funny you should ask about a white Muscari, I have got some in a place where there has never been any Muscari at all. They are not white M. ambrosiacum either. The flowers are slightly different and less tightly packed. Wonder if they have come in compost from plants we have bought?

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    That's possible Berghill. The bulb was on its own and not part of a new planting of bulbs that might have contained a stray.



    In the sticks near Peterborough
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