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Solomon's Seal

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  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295

    HI All,

    Mine is in a sheltered spot beneath a very large oak .... it currently has shoots about 6 ins tall (Southern Scotland).

    Once all the leaves are fully out I'll spray with diluted neem oil to prevent sawfly ... works really well.

    Bee

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    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

    Well there is *something* coming up in approximately the right place... but it might be a fritillary. That's what's coming up all around it, but when I planted those bulbs the Solomon's seal would still have been visible so I think I would have planted around it. The possible S'ss is only about 1.5cm at the moment so difficult to tell - anyone fancy posting a picture of what it looks like when it first emerges? Don't ask me why I didn't put a marker in.

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

    Both are new (frits from bulbs, Ss dug up from uncle's garden) so I think all may be slower - the one clump of not-new frits are already flowering, the newly planted bulbs are either emerging or just making buds at the moment. I think the suspected Ss is probably another fritillary - not fat or solid (though at 1.5cm it's difficult to tell what sturdiness is to follow!) :-(. Which might mean, as I'm in the SE, that I've lost it.

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • MayLaneMayLane Posts: 203

    My fritillary isn't up either. Both my favourite plants. 

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