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Can anyone identify this sad specimen?

LordswoodLordswood Posts: 59

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 I found it struggling to the surface whilst raking leaves. When I first found it it was a vivid cobalt blue. It's leggy leaves are in the photo too.

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  • lisa masseylisa massey Posts: 252

    Scilla siberica, I think. It's a bulb.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    Scilla siberica aka Siberian squill - a bulb, naturalises beautifully in deciduous woodland - I saw a woodland absolutely carpeted with it down in Suffolk about a fortnight ago - a picture image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,654

    I'm not sure, but it looks a bit like blue laurentia, a member of the campanula family. Or there is one called Beths blue  star.

  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,654

    Took me so long to get this though cos words jumping about, Doves probably right tho.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    Hi Lily  image- pretty sure it's not laurentia as the leaves are a classic bulb-type leaf and laurentia isn't a bulb and has lobed leaves.


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,654

    You're prob right Dove, hope, your finger is better.

  • joannepjoannep Posts: 7

    Could it be chindoxyia, 

  • pootlerpootler Posts: 95

    I agree with Dove, it is a scilla, I have lots in my garden.  They self seed very easily.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    Finger's fine now thanks Lily image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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