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Help identifying plant & flower

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  • 01-05-2019 9:30pm
    #1
    Nightingale
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭


    Hi,


    The following flowers are growing in a bed in my garden. It's not that clear from the photo but the flower heads are on a long thin stem and the base looks like a folded over reeds. I have searched online but haven't managed to identify them.

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    This has also appeared this year in the midst of an Hypericum shrub that I cut right back. The only thing I can find that resembles these leaves is Sycamore? I have a very small front garden so not a suitable location for this if it is a Sycamore.

    89860CEC-1224-4262-A2CF-08394BC087C3.jpeg

    Thanks


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    macraignil
    Registered Users Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭macraignil


    Nightingale wrote: »
    Hi,


    The following flowers are growing in a bed in my garden. It's not that clear from the photo but the flower heads are on a long thin stem and the base looks like a folded over reeds. I have searched online but haven't managed to identify them.

    73704CFD-C1BF-4F0E-ADF1-E356882E7FD1.jpeg

    This has also appeared this year in the midst of an Hypericum shrub that I cut right back. The only thing I can find that resembles these leaves is Sycamore? I have a very small front garden so not a suitable location for this if it is a Sycamore.

    89860CEC-1224-4262-A2CF-08394BC087C3.jpeg

    Thanks


    The first photo looks to me to be a type of white flowered allium and the second photo does look like sycamore to me as well.


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    Nightingale
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭Nightingale


    Thanks for that Macraignil - You are right about the Allium. In fact I can see that it is "Allium cowanii" / Neapolitan garlic Cowanii Group looking at the RHS website.
    This makes a lot of sense as I had thought in the past that they might have been some sort of spring onion as they had a bit of a pungent smell, but didn't give them any more thought until the flowers appeared this year.

    Thanks for confirming the sycamore also - will have to figure out what to about that at some stage.


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    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,059 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    There is nothing to figure out, just pull up the sycamore and bin it. They are a plague.


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    Nightingale
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭Nightingale


    looksee wrote: »
    There is nothing to figure out, just pull up the sycamore and bin it. They are a plague.

    Hi Looksee - I had no idea about them so I will just dig it out of there and dispose of it.

    Thanks


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