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Grandma

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Anyone know what this is please?
« on: May 17, 2007, 16:34:50 »
This has  just appeared in my front garden!


An iris, I think - but what sort and where from?  ???

Palustris

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Re: Anyone know what this is please?
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2007, 16:43:26 »
Iris foetidissima, native species, bird sown. Now someone will say it is I. Holden Clough no doubt!
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Re: Anyone know what this is please?
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2007, 18:44:59 »
Sow some here, please??

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Re: Anyone know what this is please?
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2007, 21:00:13 »
It is a seed weed of the first order is Gladwyn!
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Re: Anyone know what this is please?
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2007, 22:39:33 »
In London it is called a weed but if anyone wants some I'll dig a few plants up a little more carefully than normal.

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Re: Anyone know what this is please?
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2007, 23:15:51 »
The seed pods are much more impressive than the flower. Worth growing for these in the autumn/early winter.

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Re: Anyone know what this is please?
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2007, 06:44:09 »
My half plot was full of the stuff. Not now its all gone. Neverw ant to see it again apart from in an arrangement
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Re: Anyone know what this is please?
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2007, 07:58:27 »
Thanks all!  :)
I thought they were rather pretty - but I don't want a garden full of 'em! So they're coming out. Pronto. Glad I asked! Thanks again.

 

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