Showing posts with label mystery plant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mystery plant. Show all posts

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Any Ideas? Please?

Today I saw this little plant flowering in my garden.  I have no recollection of planting it (although that doesn't mean that I didn't!) and I have absolutely no idea what it is.  I've looked through several books and consulted the RHS plant identifier but to no avail.  Do any of you know what it it?


It's about 5" high and has slightly bluey green foliage and the emerging shoots looks like a little like Solomon's Seal, but narrower.


There are no leaves at all at the base of the stem and the flowers hang down, emerging from the leaves.



It's growing in shade under a shrub. The flowers are a subtle yellow with green near the stem.


I've just asked my neighbour and she thinks the previous occupant planted it, which means a: I'm not going loopy by forgetting I've planted it, and b: that it's probably quite unusual.

Can anyone help identify it?

Postscript - it's been identified as Uvularia Grandiflora by @BensBotanics on twitter, his website is here
Thanks Ben :-) 

Friday, June 29, 2012

A Four Year Wait

For the four years since I moved here, I've been wondering what this plant was that I inherited.


It's planted next to my pond, in dry shade, and the leaves have appeared each year.   Every year I've hoped that a flower might appear - and today I spotted one!


It's some kind of arum I'm sure, but beyond that I don't know.  Maybe one of you will know, but even if I never know its exact name I'll still like it!

Also looking stunning today was Clematis Romantika growing through the rose Adelaide d'Orleans.


 Let's hope we all get to enjoy some more sunshine this weekend.


Hope you all have good weekends - I'll be back soon to show you what I won in a blog draw a few weeks ago.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

What is this plant?

Can anyone help identify this plant?  It's appeared in a very shady spot in the garden, and I have no recollection at all of planting anything there.  It's about 9" tall (23cm)


The flower has 5 parts to the "trumpet" part and a yellow throat.


 The flower is trumpet shaped, and the petals unfurled from inside of the trumpet.  The buds are trumpet like too and have a sort of star shaped button at the end.


It has no noticeable scent and the leaves are quite fleshy and distorted (although the distortion might be from lack of water and being nibbled by something as it was emerging!).


Any ideas?  Anyone?

While I was contemplating the plant, and skimming duckweed off my pond earlier (for my neighbour's ducks to eat!) this lovely damselfly came to visit.  I'm pretty sure it's a male Common Blue, but common or not, it's very beautiful.