Hi, i'm new - and i've got a question.

[bario1]

Ok, here's a picture of the little bulbs... someone please tell me its snowdrops!

Sorry its a terrible picture...




Not sure if that upload has worked, to be honest...

[Nicos]

Yikes- that's a tough one!!!

normally snowdrops are in clumps, but may have been spread out a bit if someone was removing a few.

Any chance of seeing the bulbs?

Could be wild garlic.

I'd leave them and wait and see if they were mine.

You could be in for a very pleasant surprise!

[veggiechicken]

Did you check whether they smell of garlic?

[bario1]

I've got a cold and cant smell anything at the moment!

[veggiechicken]

I'll be honest - they just don't look like snowdrops. Find a friend to give them a sniff

[bario1]

I didn't see any wild garlic when i took on the plot in September... just bracken and (what i think is) creeping buttercup. Maybe wild garlic would have died off by then though?

[rustylady]

Don't look like snowdrops to me, leaves too glossy. Could be bluebells, I am cursed with the bladdy things.

[veggiechicken]

Can you dig some up and show us the bulbs? That might help narrow it down a bit.

[bario1]

Some of them that have got a bit bigger look more like daffs coming up - they've lost the glossiness to their leaves. They're pretty vigorous too, they're coming right through the cardboard sheeting i put down!

[bario1]

The bulbs look exactly like silverskin onions... i'll try and take better pics.

[rustylady]

Close up picture of one bulb with roots and leaves might help us identify.

[rustylady]

Daffydill leaves are more greeny/grey than the ones in your picture.

[bario1]

Yeah the bigger ones are going that way....

[veggiechicken]

Close up picture of one bulb with roots and leaves might help us identify.

And something to give it scale - like a ruler

[bario1]

My brother suggested that its celandine... anyone heard of that?