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03-12-2012, 07:27 AM | #1 | ||
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Thanks mrsD.
It is technically Autumn here now actually although it'll really be summer until the end of April weatherwise. This one flower is much larger than my little white crocus' I have around the garden here. The leaves of the white one are more pointed and the flower comes out of the top. This pink flower came up on a different stalk more like a bulb and the leaves are not pointed and are thick and blunt like a garlic chive. I'll check out the images again. |
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03-12-2012, 07:57 AM | #2 | |||
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Because the autumn variety blooms AFTER the foliage by months, the flowers tend to just appear! Not connected to leaves if they still exist even. Ours come right up out of the soil.
The autumn crocus that has large fleshy leaves, often over a foot tall, has a tall pink flower in Sept Oct here. The flowers come up in fall when the foliage is gone. They can be almost a foot tall, with color on 1/2 of that --maybe 6 in. My variety is a lighter pink than yours. But it is definitely pink. The other autumn one we have has thin, grasslike foliage, and a light violet flower in Oct. They are smaller, shorter by far. Some species tulips also have unusual foliage. I think the only way to know for sure is to dig up and see if it is a bulb and go from there. Take a food fork and just lift a bit to see what is under there. It won't upset the plant much if it is a little lift. (rodents do this all the time where I live-- pesky chipmunks). If the soil is a bit moist you can knock the plant out of the pot, gently and see if any bulbs show along the edges. That will work too. I often knock out my seedlings to see how the roots are coming along, to help decide when to move up to a bigger pot. Done gently and the soil stays together and you just put it back --no harm. Google species tulips also....some are small and resemble crocus too. Who knows what is in Australia... something imported, or some indigenous plant? Could be anything.
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"Thanks for this!" says: | Lara (03-12-2012) |
03-13-2012, 02:57 PM | #3 | ||
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I found a photo in Images.
It looks exactly the same as mine and the foliage is the same as well. It's really lovely to have a surprise like that sprout out of a pot of what I thought was just a grass or weed. It's also nice that was a gift. Haven't had time to find out more yet but at least I know it's a Crocus. |
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"Thanks for this!" says: | mrsD (03-13-2012) |
03-13-2012, 03:29 PM | #4 | |||
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We are having an early warm day today!
The crocus under an old oak in back, are heated by reflected South exposure sun on the wooden fence, and come up earlier than our others. The little purple species have been blooming for a couple of days scattered in the yard. These today are early hybrid larger ones. Both clumps come from a few bulbs I put in decades ago...that have just increased. That spot is warm surrounded by some icy mud that I had to go thru to get these two photos. They look inviting from a distance. That is great you found your mystery plant. It is fun to have surprises. When my son moved into his first home, he had a mystery plant by the back patio sliding door, in some shade. It came up before anything else, and we discovered it was a Hellebore! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellebore First time I had ever seen one! You know, Lara, Google images is just so handy! What did we do before it came about? LOL
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"Thanks for this!" says: | Lara (03-13-2012) |
03-13-2012, 08:49 PM | #5 | ||
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Icy mud! Golly Gosh.
They're beautiful. Thanks SO much for going through the icy mud to take the photos. I love Hellebores. I was supposed to do a botanical art course some years back but wasn't able to do it because my daughter was ill. Hellebores are great flowers/plants to paint in watercolour. I have this book on Medieval Flowers. It's just amazing. It's in the section titled "Woodlands" Says Quote:
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04-23-2012, 07:34 PM | #6 | ||
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Awesome! Mine just came up (and then died quickly - they're in the shade). It's so nice to have plants that come up automatically, year after year!
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"Thanks for this!" says: | Lara (04-27-2012) |
04-27-2012, 06:23 AM | #7 | ||
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Very neat, Zipster. I'm in Southern Hemisphere so mine were Autumn Crocus. They've stopped now, so will have to wait again for Spring I guess, but I just love those surprises, especially in this sub-tropical climate where nothing much changes from season to season.
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