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Post by lottielady on Mar 11, 2007 15:25:14 GMT
Does anyone have any idea what this is?  It's popped up in my border and I have no idea if it is a plant or a dreaded weed and I have 2 more of them popped up elswhere too. Thanks LLx |
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Post by Barbara on Mar 11, 2007 15:32:15 GMT
well what-ever it is it's certainly different,
i've never seen any-thing like it ;D
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Post by lottielady on Mar 11, 2007 15:44:52 GMT
It's weird isn't it  LLx |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2007 16:59:32 GMT
How Odd
Reminds me of a House Leek or Sepmerverium, but I'm pretty sures it's not.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2007 18:01:08 GMT
Perhaps it's extra terrestrial in origin!!! That lunar eclipse was weird... |
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Post by lottielady on Mar 11, 2007 18:12:33 GMT
Hahaha! Maybe! I just had a possible ID on the Beeb as Primula. denticulata which could be right as I had forgotten I bought 2 last year and if it is I now have 4  Too many craft moments me..... LLx |
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Post by Rosefriend on Mar 11, 2007 18:15:24 GMT
Hi LL
Primula denticulata is a possibility - I have a load in the garden and will photograph them tomorrow and let you see the comparison.
RF
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Post by andy on Mar 11, 2007 18:16:51 GMT
Well i certainly didn't recognise it !!!  |
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Post by lottielady on Mar 11, 2007 18:52:16 GMT
Thanks RF - it will be nice to compare it to another one.
LLx
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Post by Chuckles on Mar 11, 2007 22:58:22 GMT
The leaves don't look right for Primula. denticulata somehow, they look sort of shiney and like a succelent. I have the white ones and they don't look like that at all. I'm curiuos now  |
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Post by Rosefriend on Mar 12, 2007 8:38:21 GMT
So LL as promised - the pic of Primula denticulata. I think that we can safely say that it is not the same.  RF |
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Post by lottielady on Mar 12, 2007 9:22:31 GMT
Thanks RF - that doesn't look anything like what I have another suggestion was a Maiden Head Fern but I definately have never bought one of those. Time will tell I suppose - I'll give it another couple of days and see what it looks like.
LLx
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Post by andy on Mar 12, 2007 10:07:38 GMT
Could it be an auricula ?
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Post by lottielady on Mar 12, 2007 10:33:04 GMT
Don't have any of those either Andy!
LLx
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2007 11:23:05 GMT
It reminds me of a lichen/fern type thing I've seen growing on old walls in the cracks.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2007 13:42:34 GMT
That long tendril in the middle.....Triffids? I wouldn't mind finding a few in my garden (providing they aren't Triffids). Has anyone had a delve in the RHS Encyclopaedia? Problem being, if nobody knows the name of it it'll be more of a trawl - I'll have a go. |
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Mar 12, 2007 17:29:59 GMT
Is it a Foxtail lily? I have one that sulked for ages and has now decided to grow...looks similar. ;D
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Post by Chuckles on Mar 12, 2007 21:07:30 GMT
Not a Fox Tail Lily, they come up with solid pointy shoots and then the leaves appear pointin up hill and out of the top, trust me I have some This is getting more and more intriguing ;D |
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Post by 4pygmies on Mar 12, 2007 21:18:43 GMT
I saw this thread this morning and I've been thinking about it all day! I don't think it is a Primula either. I can see why Chuckles suggested a succulent of some kind..I wonder if it will uncurl anything like a frond or start growing tall from the centre of the rosette. How intriguing.....it looks as if it could be quite malignant! Like a growth of some kind...sorry LL! What sort of conditions is it growing in? It looks as if it might like the damp. PLEEASE keep posting pics of it - I can't wait to see what it turns into.......
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Post by lottielady on Mar 13, 2007 5:43:54 GMT
Craft moment with the Fern someone thought it was Harts Tongue  I have only bought one fern, last year, and it's still in it's pot and no where near this. 4P It's on the very shady side of the garden, very damp in winter and it has got roots like a Primula ( I had a broggle!) Same photo - only bigger..  |
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Post by Rosefriend on Mar 13, 2007 6:02:37 GMT
Having just seen the close up, I am going back to saying that it is a Primula of some description.
It is just the curly unfurling bits of the leaves that make it strange and how shiny it is.
RF
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Post by 4pygmies on Mar 13, 2007 7:09:47 GMT
Well, I've been trawling through Google looking for pictures of an obscure Primula called Primula fernaldiana which I thought sounded as if it was possibility but no luck and now I've run out of time....I never knew there were quite so many (um many many many!). This is terrible - please someone find out what LL's plant is!
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Post by Susie Snowdrop on Mar 13, 2007 8:37:39 GMT
I'm been through all of my books and can't find anything even remotely like it!
Me think you got martian plant in garden ;D
S x
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Post by lottielady on Mar 13, 2007 9:59:37 GMT
I had better ring 'The Sun' then!
[size=8[shadow=,blackleft,300][/shadow]]ALLOTMENT LADY ABDUCTED BY ALIEN [/size]
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2007 10:53:37 GMT
LL, have you ever seen 'Little Shop Of Horrors'...  |
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Post by madonplants on Mar 13, 2007 13:18:32 GMT
Not knowing much about them, but could it be a carnivious plant of some description?
Keith
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2007 15:14:21 GMT
Perhaps it's called Audrey...  |
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Post by Barbara on Mar 13, 2007 15:57:39 GMT
FEED ME FEEDME  |
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Post by Chuckles on Mar 13, 2007 16:57:27 GMT
LL do you have any small hardy Geraniums in the garden, the smaller variety like the alpine ones, leaves that are soft and like furry the size of a 1p piece
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Post by lottielady on Mar 13, 2007 17:46:53 GMT
No I don't Chuckles  The rest of you - you will all be sorry when it's eaten me and my little dogs too!   This is what it looks like today...  and the other little one.. it's a bit blurry sorry!  LLx |
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I have only bought one fern, last year, and it's still in it's pot and no where near this.
