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LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

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What is this, please? In a neighbour's garden.

'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
- Cicero
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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

    (Not the wallflowers)

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,042

    Looks like a tulip that is nearly over.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    that's what it looks like to me



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

    There are tulips around it but it looks somehow like a different plant (though a bulbous one, obviously). Any idea what its name might be? It's very delicate. 

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546

    Definitely a tulip, it will be a species one, such as Kaufmanniana.

  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

    Thank you all. I will keep looking out for it - at least I know to look amongst tulips now, I was so convinced that it was something else :-)

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • KeenOnGreenKeenOnGreen Posts: 1,831

    It looks remarkably similar to Sparaxis Tricolour, apart from the white parts. 

  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

    Oh my goodness, I've just looked up sparaxis and if it isn't one then I'd be amazed!

    It has slightly pointier petals, but is just like the one in this pic: http://www.pbase.com/image/33310428 

    Thank you. 

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

    Ah, it seems I've discovered another bug - links not working. Have downloaded it and will upload here, with credit to http://www.pbase.com/image/33310428

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    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

    And to confuse things further, that link worked...

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
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