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Name: Debra Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a) Service dogs: Angels with paws.              lovemyhouse Oct 23, 2014 3:17 PM CST |
Several popped up last week in a container, which has been in use for several years, so I know they are something I put in on purpose. Just wish I could remember what they are or why I did it.   Moderation in all things…except chocolate, coffee...and potato chips. |
Name: Tiffany purpleinopp Opp, AL 🌵🌷⚘🌹🌻 (Zone 8b)            purpleinopp Oct 24, 2014 7:16 AM CST |
| This foliage doesn't look similar to other leaves in that pot? Are you thinking it's a bulb like I am? Is this a pot you bring in for winter, or that lives outside all year? 👀😁😂 - SMILE! -☺😎☻☮👌✌∞☯🐣🐦🐔🐝🍯🐾 The less I interfere, the more balance mother nature provides. 👒🎄👣🏡🍃🍂🌾🌿🍁❦❧ 🍃🍁🍂🌾🌻🌸🌼🌹🌽❀☀🌺 ☕👓 The only way to succeed is to try. |
Name: Debra Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a) Service dogs: Angels with paws. lovemyhouse Oct 24, 2014 11:35 AM CST |
| The container has four Iris in it, stays outside all the time, and these bulby things popped up last week. Moderation in all things…except chocolate, coffee...and potato chips. |
Name: Lin Florida (Zone 9b)         plantladylin Oct 24, 2014 12:52 PM CST |
| This photo you have in the database shows Iris 'Sparks Fly' in a container; could it possibly be that one? ~ Playing in the dirt is my therapy ... and I'm in therapy a lot! ~ |
Name: Kyla Richmond, VA (Zone 6b)          kylaluaz Oct 24, 2014 1:03 PM CST |
| I keep thinking it might be spiderwort but haven't been able to find a picture showing that kind of joint on an emerging plant. This picture from the database might help? |
Name: Debra Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a) Service dogs: Angels with paws. lovemyhouse Oct 24, 2014 1:03 PM CST |
| This is a different container and there are rhizomes of Immortality in it, Lin. The foliage is definitely not Iris, I dug one up to see the base and it looks like a bulb of some sort. Mamajack brought me a bunch of stuff a few months ago and I was tucking things in all over the place. So pretty sure I planted it, I just can't remember or figure out what I planted. (She doesn't recognize it, either. ) Moderation in all things…except chocolate, coffee...and potato chips. |
Name: Debra Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a) Service dogs: Angels with paws. lovemyhouse Oct 24, 2014 1:04 PM CST |
Kyla, when/if the foliage branches out, I will compare to that photograph, thank you.  Moderation in all things…except chocolate, coffee...and potato chips. |
Name: Lin Florida (Zone 9b) plantladylin Oct 24, 2014 2:02 PM CST |
I'll be curious to hear what it turns out to be. It kinda, sorta reminds me of Allium seedlings too but my eyes aren't what they used to be, that's for sure.  ~ Playing in the dirt is my therapy ... and I'm in therapy a lot! ~ |
Name: Debra Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a) Service dogs: Angels with paws. lovemyhouse Oct 24, 2014 2:09 PM CST |
| I might go dig one up and photograph the whole thing. Moderation in all things…except chocolate, coffee...and potato chips. |
Name: Donald Eastland county, Texas (Zone 8a)    needrain Oct 24, 2014 2:15 PM CST |
| Looks like some kind of bulb growth, for sure. Did you put any Dutch iris in the pot maybe? Doesn't seem quite the right time for them, but some are early and maybe they got tricked. What I can see reminds me of those in appearance. All the muscaris have popped up here, but unless you've got a new kind, this doesn't fit that. Do you remember if you had bulbs that would be waking up in the fall rather than waiting 'til spring? That might narrow it down. Donald |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door..       chelle Oct 24, 2014 5:56 PM CST |
needrain said:... Do you remember if you had bulbs that would be waking up in the fall rather than waiting 'til spring? That might narrow it down. That's what I was thinking, too. Perhaps it's a summer dormant, winter or very early spring blooming bulb. There was one winter-active bulb in particular that I was very interested in last year, but now I can't remember for the life of me what it was. Something that reminded me of an alstroemeria, I think.  |
Name: Suzanne/Sue Sebastopol, CA (Zone 9a) Sunset Zone 15        |
Oh, love a good mystery!  |
Name: Debra Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a) Service dogs: Angels with paws. lovemyhouse Oct 25, 2014 12:38 PM CST |
| Donald, you may be right. I had several clumps of Dutch Iris that always put up foliage in the Fall. Still bloomed fine in Spring, but did that crazy stuff each and every year. Moved them some months back and could have easily stuck some pieces in this container. Will go Google Dutch Iris foliage and see if I can tell for sure. Thanks. Moderation in all things…except chocolate, coffee...and potato chips. |
Name: Connie Willamette Valley OR (Zone 8a)       pardalinum Oct 25, 2014 12:57 PM CST |
| I think it is normal for Dutch iris to emerge in the fall. Mine always do. |
Name: Janet Super Sleuth Near Lincoln UK   JRsbugs Oct 25, 2014 1:23 PM CST |
| I don't think Dutch Iris make pseudobulbs? They grow from a 'normal' bulb which should be planted deeply. It looks like an orchid, Bletilla striata has ribbed leaves and makes pseudobulbs but I'm not sure it matches that. http://www.pacificbulbsociety.... http://www.bayoucityheirloombu... http://aggie-horticulture.tamu... |
Name: Tiffany purpleinopp Opp, AL 🌵🌷⚘🌹🌻 (Zone 8b) purpleinopp Oct 27, 2014 11:16 AM CST |
| Looking at Narcissus starting to come up, they're striped - at least the first, outer green thing that comes up... 👀😁😂 - SMILE! -☺😎☻☮👌✌∞☯🐣🐦🐔🐝🍯🐾 The less I interfere, the more balance mother nature provides. 👒🎄👣🏡🍃🍂🌾🌿🍁❦❧ 🍃🍁🍂🌾🌻🌸🌼🌹🌽❀☀🌺 ☕👓 The only way to succeed is to try. |
Name: Debra Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a) Service dogs: Angels with paws. lovemyhouse Oct 27, 2014 11:23 AM CST |
Janet, I can't think of any way an orchid would have made it into my yard, but thank you for providing those links.  Thank you, Tiffany. Moderation in all things…except chocolate, coffee...and potato chips. |
Name: Janet Super Sleuth Near Lincoln UK JRsbugs Oct 27, 2014 11:36 AM CST |
| Bletilla striata is commonly sold by bulb companies here, it probably is in the US too. As you said Mamajack brought you a lot of bulbs, could you check with her what she had on order at the time? |
Name: Debra Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a) Service dogs: Angels with paws. lovemyhouse Oct 27, 2014 12:45 PM CST |
Sent the photographs to her first--she has no clue, either.  She brought me some miscellaneous bulbs she had dug out of her yard. The foliage is staying tubular. Rubbed it and do not smell onion. Dug up one to photograph and I am leaning toward the Dutch Iris?? Moderation in all things…except chocolate, coffee...and potato chips. |
Name: Janet Super Sleuth Near Lincoln UK JRsbugs Oct 27, 2014 12:55 PM CST |
| The images are failing to load at the moment, but that doesn't look like the same plant as in the first photo. |
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