I was on my way home and saw a sign that said free brick and stone..it was the foundation of an old home that had burned.. well you know me, I stopped and got as much sandstone as I could..it was free...lol.. I came across a clump of something that had already bloomed and of course I dug it up ...lol.. the leaves are tubular, long and hollow.. they sorta look like an onion leaves but they dont have an onion smell.. it had already bloomed and the blossom was dried up..it was small though and sorta looked like a lily..it looked like the color of the bloom must have been white.. the bulb itself is white and about an inch and a half tall... I saw tons of paper whites that had already bloomed but this isnt that. Its not a daffodil, nor is it a hyancith or tulip... I know its not much of a description but with the experts here someone might know what it is...if not I guess Ill be suprised next spring.. and if anyone wants some let me know and Ill bring some to the gulf coast RU for ya... Ive about 25 bulbs Ill give away after keeping some for myself...or if you want paperwhites Ill go back and get them for you.. not a problem at all
found bulbs.. dont know what it is..
Do you have a pic of the bulb?
Ill take it tomorrow for ya...
It sounds like one of the small narcissus. I have a tiny yellow one that favors a daffodil and the leaves are hollow, tubular, resembling chives. Show us your bulb and I may have to dig one of mine up to compare.
Or it might be one of the Leucojum which blooms white, the leaves of mine are flat but there are many different ones. The blooms on mine are winding down right now.
Now, are you sure you don't need to go back and get the rest of those bricks??? LOL
you know you can never have to much brick...lol...as much as Id love to get more theres only so much lifting I can do.. I ended up in bed at 6 pm today with extra pain meds because I was doing was what I should NOT be doing at all.. I play I pay is how my life is...... I did get some beautiful sandstone that had been the foundation.. but it looked like I had a lot more of it in the truck than after I got home with it...lol... I think Im going to use it for the edgeing of my bog garden I want to make..
edited to add
I did a search on plant files for Leucojum and thats not what this is. I dont think.... the leaves of that arent at all like what I found ...the one I found are more onion like.. I did dig some of that up from a friends yard not knowing what it was.. Now I do..Thanks!!!
Ill post pics of the bulb and foilage tomorrow
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http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/694418/ If you have a few minutes, read thru this thread. It also has some links to possible IDs. Good luck.
See, you need to go make some enthusiast Generation Y green eco-friends who have a hybrid smart car rather than a pickup. They load, you haul, everybody wins!
We've got TONS of prairie onion this year. Could it be that? Supposedly it has a slight oniony oder, but I sure can't smell it. They bloom white to lavender, but tend to fade to whiter. I guess in an ideal setting the blooms would make that allium balls, but the ones I'm seeing only have one to a few flowers.
From the way it's distributed at some of the abandoned homesites where I lurk, either those folks were transplanting it for dooryard flowers, or it found the abandoned yard a more conducive environment than the open prairie.
it just breaks my heart to see flowers left at old deserted homes and places like that..shoot I hate to see deserted homes and buildings period.. Ive lived in some bigger cities and Ive always felt that instead of pushhing outward with new communitys and new houses they should rehab whats ther and not waste it.. I guess my digging the flowers up is a form of rehabing them... yeah thats right Im just rehabbing flowers officer...lol..
Oh, I love that they left the flowers. I choose to believe that they took some with them, too, so now there are twice as much flowers. That's the cool thing about flowers.
I grew up in Georgia, so every so often I find something here that does not belong here at all, so someone must have carried it out here with them on the covered wagon. (Where I am, there's probably similarly stuff that someone carried up from central mexico, but I don't know those plants, herbs likely, well enough to identify them.) So yay to those people for venturing out into the unknown with nothing more than a few bulbs, and yay to the bulbs for figuring out how to survive.
Apparently Detroit is seriously looking at rehab to integrate farming and city living, although it wasn't really something they planned...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/mar/10/detroit-motor-city-urban-decline
I saw on the news how they were looking at putting in 1000 acre farms and such.. it used to be such a beautiful city but now with the blight and decay its horrible now.. I worked in downtown detroit for a long time in my past life and Ive had scarier experiences in small towns than I ever had living there....
here are the pics of my unknown bulb...
just the bulb..
and the dried up blossom... Im thinking its a jonquil but am still not sure.. I guess Ill call it Spring Suprise cause its gonna be one next spring...loll
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