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Old 23-05-2008, 03:26 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default What do bluebell seedlings look like?

Davy wrote in
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Last autumn I sowed some british bluebell seeds and now
something has come up and I don't know if they are
bluebells.

The seedlings I see have grass-like leaves erupting
fountain-like from a central stem. I book I have says

the
seedlings look like chives - which I understand to mean
have individual round stems.

Can anyone help?

Davy


I think I have sussed this. I am pretty sure the plants
are pendulous sedge. We have many large pendulous sedge
plants with drop a lot of seed and some of this must have
gone into the leaves which I then used to make leafmould
to make seedling compost!

thanks everyone

Davy