Re: crocosmia?


"H Ryder" <hayley.ryderNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: There are hundreds of "things" growing in my garden. They are like thick
: (say 1/2 inch average) single blades of grass with vertical slight ridges
on
: them. When I pull them up there is a single brown bulb attached to the end
: of each. Could they be crocosmia? If so then how have they got here - I
have
: a few lots on the garden but they have not sprouted yet so can not compare
: them to these. If they are not crocosmia any ideas what they could be?
TIA,
:
: --
: Hayley
: (gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset)
:
:
Sounds like the perishers, pull them out as soon as possible each year and
you'll at least reduce the thugs to something you can admire even if it's
nigh on impossible to get rid of them, they spread everywhere


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