Cloncaw's Journal

They will be a nice surprise when they decide to flower! I do this all the time and have about half a dozen pots of unidentified bulbs outside the greenhouse!

It's a bit hard to tell just yet. Let them grow a bit more and identification will be easier. Best of luck with the seeds. I sowed Cleome last week too.

Healthy............. ;-)

Just looked through labelsfrom bulbs last year and think it's either Eucomis "Bicolour" or Eremurus "Stenophyllus" must be one more in the bed still as there were 3 in a pack have a feeling it's Eremurus.

Geraldine it's unlikely they're eucomis as the probably wont have survived outside for a winter, but my eremurus are looking just like that, if you scrape away a little soil carefully and you find star fish type roots then its eremurus. hope this helps

Thanks Bill they did have roots like that and the ones I planted were yellow so I'm now nearly sure that's what it is must see if I can locate the other bulb as I plan to lift most things out of this bed and spray it as I want to get rid of the Lysmachia that has taken it over. Think I lifted the eucomis and binned them as they had gone mushy.

Geraldine those eremurus are best left in a pot as they really like sharp drainage and dont like the irish wet at all, they can be grown in the ground but most of the time in sandy soil in the UK. You can always pop then in the border and bury/hide the pot when (of should I say if) they flower..

Cloncaw, it will be interesting to see what they really are! they look healthy anyway!