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Old 06-05-2006, 01:53 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Bulb Identification

Richard Phillips writes
Hello,

Can anyone ID this for me:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/raphillips/temp/3.JPG

It seems to have stowed away during a mass planting of Daff bulbs last year!

Looks like a Spanish bluebell (or a hybrid)

I say spanish rather than english because the stems are relatively stiff
- they'd droop more at the top if english - and the flowers are gently
flaring bells rather than arrow bells just flaring at the tip. English
bluebells are a darker blue than spanish, have narrower leaves, and are
scented. Spanish bluebells have blue pollen.

For how to distinguish English, Spanish, hybrid, see

http://tinyurl.co.uk/7ari
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Kay