I noticed something very strange. I had some bulbs(Anyone can ID them for me?) in a dry place and they were flowering. They hadn't been watered since at least six months. The bulbs had only flowers but no leaves. Is that normal??
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Euh it seems the pic isn't appearing
I've posted them [url=https://learngardening.blogspot.com/2009/02/drought-scheme-for-bulbs.html]here[/url]
Hi Rickesh, I'm out on a limb here ragarding the id but I think it might be a Lachenalia.
The fact is most bulbs, tubers and corms store a tremendous potential for growth and in the most adverse coditions will attempt to reproduce by throwing up a flower spike - all that many need is a temperature above freezing and the least amount of moisture.
The fact is most bulbs, tubers and corms store a tremendous potential for growth and in the most adverse coditions will attempt to reproduce by throwing up a flower spike - all that many need is a temperature above freezing and the least amount of moisture.
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IMO it looks like a form of "Muscari" or grape hyacinth, but I've not seen one with mottled leaves like that. However, some of the fancier catalogues that I don't get may have something. How big are the bulbs? Muscari bulbs are about the size of your thumb, above the last knuckle. If these are bigger then I'm wrong and they're something else. ( Wouldn't be the first time I'm wrong about something...)
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Good kid. (patting you on the back, like my parents used to do to me) Did we guilt you into this? Been there, done that. I got yelled at (sort of) for covering up my Japanese Maples this year. After I did that we got so much snow that they bent down to the ground with the weight of the snow on top of the covering. We'll see if they come back this summer.
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