Another couple of ID's please! : )

[vikkib]

Had a lovely day out at Little Bentley Hall show yesterday and wondered if anyone could help with identification of these?

The purple one among the cow parsley!



And a lovely leafy plant!

[veggiechicken]

The first - possibly Chionodoxa.
The second one is an Arum of some sort - I think!

[Nicos]

I'd be interested to find out what the second one is as we have them growing wild in our garden. A gardening friend told me I should dig them up as they have poisonous berries and they spread everywhere.
It'd be a shame to do that as they are so pretty- so it'd be good to know if she's right , and then I can make a decision.

[veggiechicken]

If its Arum Maculatum, Nicos, it does have poisonous berries and it is difficult to get rid of it. Also known as Lords & Ladies, Jack in the pulpit etc.
I think the one in Vikki's photo maybe Arum italicum.

[Nicos]

OMG!!!

I've just goooogled Arum Maculatum VC....

" It is one of the most common causes of accidental plant poisoning based on attendance at hospital A & E departments."

As the 2 places it grows is in the Gite garden- and we have children who stay-I think it needs to come out.

Looks like my friend was right then!


Vikki- my plant doesn't have as many lines on it's leaves as in your piccie- they're clearly different!!

[VirginVegGrower]

I have the same Nicos and I am always hoofing it out. Grows wild along my shady hedgerow and woodland bits.

[Glutton4...]

I leave it alone - it's pretty. Just don't eat the ruddy thing!

[Nicos]

G4- it's stopping other peeps's kids from eating it!

Having said that- I'd keep it if it were in 'my' garden

[VirginVegGrower]

The first - possibly Chionodoxa.
The second one is an Arum of some sort - I think!

Chionodoxa is a shorter spring flowering bulb. I think this looks almost agapanthus like in the tall stem and long thin leaves. That or an allium of some kind. Maybe a camassia, but which one, I don't know. My mum has something similar in her shady border. I can't for the life of me understand if it was an agapanthus, why it would be there.

[roitelet]

Just pull the flower spikes off the arum the leaves are still pretty and don't invite littles to eat them.

[Gearoid]

First pic looks like a Camassia bulb. Second looks like an Arum.

[vikkib]

Thanks ever so much everyone!

I think you're right about it being Arum italicum VC - I'm a little nervous about it as we look after my folk's dog a few weeks a year but I guess as long as I can remove the flower spikes as you suggest, roitelet, he'll be ok... I do love the leaves!