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I need a CSI on a few plants part 1

10 years ago

I brought some seeds and bulbs from a garage sale. They were in a plastic zip-lock bags The homeowners had no idea the name of the bulbs and seeds. They were cheap and I love a bargain. Now, the plants are growing and I need to know the names so I can properly care for them.

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User
10 years ago
Orchid (Bletilla?)
Gladiolus
Allium

This post was edited by saltcedar on Thu, Jul 4, 13 at 12:18
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
10 years ago
oh great salty one...

what about a variegated lily of the valley for the first???

much more likely in z5

ken
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User
10 years ago
Might be?
Hard to tell, if the leaves are pleated or not.
florauk
10 years ago
L of the V was my first thought for no.1.
dirt_farmer
10 years ago
Hi,
This is a little off post but I wanted to ask while this thread was active. How did you manage to get 3 pics added to 1 post ?
I can only do 1 pic at a posting. I'm sorta a newbie so any help would be appreciated.
thanks
florauk
10 years ago
If you put your pictures on a photo hosting site (in this case Photobucket) you can then copy and paste the html code into your post for as many pictures as you like. Or as many as you think the viewers can stand.
jeb50
10 years ago
The one with the wider leaves may be Iris.
User
10 years ago
By consensus then we have Lily of the Valley, does anyone
else think the second is an Iris?
infynite
Original Author
10 years ago
@ saltcedar - The leaves of the first plant are pleated.
missingtheobvious
10 years ago
If we were going only by the leaves of #1, I'd say lily of the valley also, particularly because of the look of the stalk below the leaves (compared with various Bletilla photos I looked at).

I've never seen a Bletilla in the flesh, and it's been a while since I've paid any attention to lily of the valley flower-stalks once the blooms are over, but I wonder if that's a spent flower-stalk at the back of pot #1 or a miscellaneous weed. Could a closer view of that flower-stalk rule out one possibility or the other (or maybe both)?
User
10 years ago
I always thought Convallaria had thick, flat, non-translucent leaves with a whitish bloom. Since I've never grown the variegated one I can't compare them. On the flip side it is rather far North for Bletilla, but then they sell stuff here that can't possibly survive so it's not out of the question for it to be available. Pretty sure that's a weed in the back of the pot.
trilliumsareme
10 years ago
I dont think the first one is L of V.
The second one looks like Blackberry Lily.
ravenwinter
10 years ago
The second one really looks like a Gladiolus to me ...
florauk
10 years ago
Right - if the leaves of the first are pleated it is not Convallaria, after all.

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