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Unknown plant help
violon340
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Hi everybody. Could anybody help in identifying this grass-like plant from the photo. Sorry it's sideways (not sure what to do about that). The tea mug is there just for a size comparison. Many thanks in advance.
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It looks very much like the seed head of Iris foetidissima (stinking iris) to me.
see www.rhs.org.uk/plants/9250/iris-foetidissima/details
I agree - Iris foetidissima
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks ever so much Mo and Dove. Stinking Iris eh? What a charmer. It doesn't seem to do much apart from sit there, and as I've been given a rose (scarlet queen Elizabeth) as a present I may replace it with that. At least that should smell better.
Beautiful berries in winter / spring, I like it, even if its flowers are insignificant.
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S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I've got a clump of this in my garden in a very shady spot. The berries are lovely in winter as punkdoc says and I even like the flowers. Small yellow/grey ones but I think they're very delicate and pretty
I agree that they have beautiful berries! They add much needed colour to our garden when there's little else going on!
I like it - it's very useful to provide a bit of colour in the shade.
If it's happy there it's possibly not quite the right place for a rose? Scarlet Queen Elizabeth is a floribunda - they'll put up with a little shade, but will do much better in a sunny spot.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Unfortunately half my garden is in shade from about midday onwards thanks to my neighbour's massive sycamore tree. So perhaps I'll leave things as they are and find a sunny spot for the rose. Thanks for all the advice guys.