Some sort of bulb possibly tigridia?
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Mystery plant, possible bulb??
Comments (9)I have a plant I need help identifying. I bought it at a garden center on sale with no name or tag. It is a 3 blub plant with the bulbs exposed on top of the soil and it bloomed in April with a pretty blue flower similar to an agapanthus (Lily of the Nile)except the stem was not erect and was more airy and with just a few flowers in the cluster. It did not die back completely after blooming and I overwintered it in the greenhouse. It bloomed again in April of this year. It is not doing well in our Texas heat and the foliage is dying now. I do not know how to help it since I do not know what it is. Can anyone help?...See MoreOf Topic, sort of but not really
Comments (4)A battery is not itself a source of ignition. Batteries do not sit there emitting sparks or arcs, if that is why you are concerned, so a battery actually presents no greater peril being in the trunk (or under it) than say......a spare tire or a jack. As to the hydrogen gas (don't forget the oxygen too) venting from the battery: I have not seen how the battery containment enclosure is configured on any of the cars that place the battery in a "trunk accessible" location..........so I can't say whether (or not) the battery containment provision is actually sealed off from the rest of the trunk and provided with its own "vent to outside air". I would surely hope that the auto maker provided some type of ventilation scheme to evacuate any gases that might vent out of a battery. And that right there brings into the picture another aspect of (modern) batteries. I would really hope (for a number of reasons) that the batteries in these cars are sealed, maintenance free type. Sealed lead-acid batteries (of either the "gel cell" or the "absorbed glass mat" type) DO NOT vent hydrogen and oxygen out of the battery case in the same fashion as "old school" lead-acid batteries because these new tech batteries have a valve in the vent port to maintain a very slight pressure head inside the battery. These Valve Regulated Lead-Acid (VRLA) batteries actually vent very little hydrogen and oxygen out of the battery case because the 2 PSI pressure head permits the 2 gases to "reunite" and turn back into water. This is also the basis for VRLA batteries to be called "maintenance free". By allowing the 2 gases to turn back into water, you never need to add any make up water to the battery. And because no venting takes place (under normal circumstances) no acid droplets are displaced from the battery to corrode the cables/terminals and other metal brackets associated with a battery mount. Another reason no acid escapes from VRLA batteries is because the electrolyte is not held in the battery as a "free liquid". Gel cell batteries electrolyte is in the form of a thick gel (due to additives put into the liquid acid). Absorbed glass mat batteries have all of their electrolyte held in an absorbent mat comprised of extremely fine glass fibers. Because the electrolyte of both types is not free to slosh around inside the battery case.....electrolyte does not get tossed against the vent port where it can escape if the valve were to open. And to add to the concerns (or absence of) about flammables or explosives in the trunk........what about all those stop light, tail light, turn signal, and back up light bulbs and all the associated wiring right there in the trunk?...See MoreEr....I lied. Sort of. (Regarding Lilies, please join in)
Comments (2)Jannabeen, it was a real eye-opener when I found my nice, white lilies had been taken over by The Tigers From Planet X. Those things are like Tribbles: born pregant. When I first set up my lily garden I didn't even know what a bubil WAS, never mind what it led to. Talk about learning the hard way! The gardener who kindly wrote to say I hadn't really given an accurate description (she's right: I should remember that we have all levels of gardeners here, and not take shortcuts) has given me permission to post what she sent. I think it's well-written and worth reading. It may seem a bit odd because I've taken the middle part of the letter out of context, so if it looks wonky blame ME, not her. (...) It is not possible that pollination of a cream\-colored lily by tiger lily pollen has turned it into a tiger lily. If a cream\-colored lily was pollinated by the tiger lily (which if ID'd correctly is Lilium triginum, or a hybrid thereof), only the resulting seeds, if fertile, may grow up to form bulbs which may show the characteristics of a tiger lily. However, it might appear that the cream lily has "turned into" a tiger lily if the cream\-colored lily had actually died out and been replaced by seedlings that resulted from the cream lily\-tiger lily pollination, and resembled the tiger lily. Another way in which it could appear to happen, is if bulbils (those little bulbs that form on the stems of tiger lilies and their hybrids) from the tiger lily fell close to the cream lily, and grew and blossomed. Bulbils are, in fact, clones of the parent plant, and are a characteristic of L. tigrinum and many of its hybrids. Thus, the bulbils, if that's a possible explanation, ARE the orange lily, and have not crossed in any way with the cream lily. MAN do I wish I had known this ten years ago. :-( Toujours, - Merri...See MoreCan I mix some bulbs in here ?
Comments (32)Yes, you should probably consider the smaller woodland perennials. Like woodland creeping phlox (p. divartica), trilliums, low growing ferns, heuchera, tiarella,golden wood poppy (stylophorum diphyllum). These are much better suited to a woodland constant moisture sort of situation than most bulbs. In fact, I can recommend you look at sunlight gardens for some more ideas. They have a lot of that sort of thing, you can choose the shop option and select moist soil and your light condition and you should be set. I'd stay with low growers. And floral, oh yes, there's so much wasteful use of water, though I tend to see it more on lawns. There were lawns that I would pass on the way to work, which you could count on daily (or several times a week) to be running water down the street, because the sprinklers had more than saturated the soil. I didn't tend to see it on beds, but I'm sure it does happen some there too. Remember, if a little is good, a lot has to be better, right ? :) I'm a control freak and I like my plants to be mostly able to deal with the weather as it comes, so I use a lot of natives, or even plants from drier climates. I also hand water only as needed. In fact, though I gripe about watering, I think I probably derive pleasure from doing it. I certainly don't do it too much though (lol, because I'm essentially lazy too)....See Morepopmama (Colorado, USDA z5)
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