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Title: Anyone know what this is please?
Post by: Grandma on May 17, 2007, 16:34:50

This has just appeared in my front garden!

(http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/8930/irisstrangeil6.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

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

Title: Re: Anyone know what this is please?
Post by: Palustris on May 17, 2007, 16:43:26

Iris foetidissima, native species, bird sown. Now someone will say it is I. Holden Clough no doubt!

Title: Re: Anyone know what this is please?
Post by: tim on May 17, 2007, 18:44:59

Sow some here, please??

Title: Re: Anyone know what this is please?
Post by: Palustris on May 17, 2007, 21:00:13

It is a seed weed of the first order is Gladwyn!

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Post by: Eristic 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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Post by: Toadspawn 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.

Title: Re: Anyone know what this is please?
Post by: shirlton 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

Title: Re: Anyone know what this is please?
Post by: Grandma 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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