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Title: What is it ?
Post by: janleaver on May 25, 2007, 20:59:03

Can anyone help me, weeding the garden today found a small patch of these (photograph below) under a large area of Iris's. What plant do they grow into. Jan.

(http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t266/janleaver/DSC00804.jpg)

(http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t266/janleaver/DSC00803.jpg)

Title: Re: What is it ?
Post by: manicscousers on May 25, 2007, 21:14:06

god, they're wierd, triffids ? ;D

Title: Re: What is it ?
Post by: flowerlady on May 25, 2007, 21:15:50

That's a cyclamen ;) But you will have to wait to see which kind :D

Title: Re: What is it ?
Post by: emmy1978 on May 25, 2007, 21:39:47

Beat me to it Flowerlady, but then you should know eh? ;)

Title: Re: What is it ?
Post by: janleaver on May 25, 2007, 22:09:41

Thanks - will have to move them I would never see them grow under all the iris's, in the corner of my garden. They really do look like nothing I have ever seen before. Do I just move them on to the top of the earth as they are now or do I plant them into the soil - Just wondered. Thanks again. Jan :-[

Title: Re: What is it ?
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on May 25, 2007, 22:51:14

Those are the seed heads. The stem coils down, and eventually releases sticky, sweet-tasting seeds, which are carried away by ants. They ripen about a year after the plant flowers.

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