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Title: Help, please
Post by: Sinbad7 on April 08, 2010, 19:29:48
Can anyone identify what this is? It's really strong and sturdy.

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z284/sunnyday_012/Allotment%202008/100_0419.jpg

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z284/sunnyday_012/Allotment%202008/100_0418.jpg


TIA, Sinbad
Title: Re: Help, please
Post by: nilly71 on April 08, 2010, 19:38:16
It looks like a plant pot ;D

Neil
Title: Re: Help, please
Post by: macmac on April 08, 2010, 19:45:50
Quote from: nilly71 on April 08, 2010, 19:38:16
It looks like a plant pot ;D

Neil
;D ;D ;D
is it an iris ?
Title: Re: Help, please
Post by: Sinbad7 on April 08, 2010, 19:46:23
LOL, thank you Neil:)
Title: Re: Help, please
Post by: Sinbad7 on April 08, 2010, 19:49:25
I don't think it is an Iris, the leaves are very long and thin and have flopped over but the main stalk feels really solid.

Thanks macmac.
Title: Re: Help, please
Post by: lincsyokel2 on April 08, 2010, 19:51:06
probably have to wait till it flowers, theres a hundred plants with leaves like that.
Title: Re: Help, please
Post by: macmac on April 08, 2010, 19:55:24
have you tried turning the label round so we can read it  ;D
Title: Re: Help, please
Post by: Sinbad7 on April 08, 2010, 20:00:47
LOL macmac the label says Dahlia and I know it's not that.

A friend suggested agapanthus  but couldn't imagine what I'd be doing with them.
Title: Re: Help, please
Post by: Bugloss2009 on April 08, 2010, 20:08:25
pampas grass?
Title: Re: Help, please
Post by: Sinbad7 on April 08, 2010, 20:25:08
I'm not sure I'm a pampas grass person and I can't imagine me putting it in a pot when I've got a lottie to plant it on.  Also I seem to have quite a few of these in different pots about the patio.

Thanks though for the suggestion Bugloss
Title: Re: Help, please
Post by: Bugloss2009 on April 08, 2010, 20:52:12
neither am I.  I thought it had just "appeared" in your pot  ;)
Title: Re: Help, please
Post by: Georgie on April 08, 2010, 20:58:18
Very hard to say but it could be one of the Allium family, maybe Purple Sensation this early?  It's not Agapanthus tho'.

G x
Title: Re: Help, please
Post by: Sinbad7 on April 08, 2010, 21:16:13
As I seem to have so many of them Bugloss I think I might have planted something  ;D

Thanks for that Georgie.
Title: Re: Help, please
Post by: Hector on April 08, 2010, 21:30:41
Kniphofia???
http://cdn-viper.demandvideo.com/media/209503e2-a59a-47cd-a1c9-65b623b0b17f/jpeg/4923ed9d-7c02-40bb-8907-dcc2ed17bddc_6.jpg
Title: Re: Help, please
Post by: tricia on April 08, 2010, 21:41:53
They look like self-seeded Spanish bluebells to me - I've been pulling them out all over my garden! I could be wrong, though  :).

Tricia
Title: Re: Help, please
Post by: reddyreddy on April 08, 2010, 21:48:10
cornish palm?
Title: Re: Help, please
Post by: allaboutliverpool on April 11, 2010, 15:23:26
I agree with Hector, Kniphofia (Red hot poker).

http://allaboutallotments.com/index.html
Title: Re: Help, please
Post by: lincsyokel2 on April 11, 2010, 15:35:40
The proof shall be in the flowering...............   :D
Title: Re: Help, please
Post by: grannyjanny on April 11, 2010, 15:50:44
Quote from: lincsyokel2 on April 11, 2010, 15:35:40
"The proof shall be in the flowering...............   :D"
Very profound.