Grateful for a name to these:

Http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertindevon/?saved=1

(Clump of plants in front of the pieris and behind the euonymous).

They started to appear in the garden last year and are now popping up
everywhere.

Linear leaves, up to 22mm wide and 400mm long, with very slightly
serrated edges, no indication of flowers.

Location S Devon redlands, garden used to be part of broadleafed
woodland.

--
Robert

"robert" wrote ...
Grateful for a name to these:

Http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertindevon/?saved=1

(Clump of plants in front of the pieris and behind the euonymous).

They started to appear in the garden last year and are now popping up
everywhere.

Linear leaves, up to 22mm wide and 400mm long, with very slightly serrated
edges, no indication of flowers.

Location S Devon redlands, garden used to be part of broadleafed woodland.

That looks like one of the foreign ornamental grasses that one now finds all
over the countryside, especially by canals etc.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
just W. of London

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, robert wrote
Grateful for a name to these:

Http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertindevon/?saved=1

(Clump of plants in front of the pieris and behind the euonymous).

They started to appear in the garden last year and are now popping up
everywhere.

Linear leaves, up to 22mm wide and 400mm long, with very slightly
serrated edges, no indication of flowers.

Location S Devon redlands, garden used to be part of broadleafed
woodland.


Is it a kind of grass? Have you dug one up?

--
Kate B

PS 'elvira' is spamtrapped - please reply to 'elviraspam' at cockaigne dot org dot uk if you
want to reply personally

On Apr 13, 3:38*pm, robert wrote:
Grateful for a name to these:

Http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertindevon/?saved=1

(Clump of plants in front of the pieris and behind the euonymous).

They started to appear in the garden last year and are now popping up
everywhere.

Linear leaves, up to 22mm wide and 400mm long, with very slightly
serrated edges, no indication of flowers.

Location S Devon redlands, garden used to be part of broadleafed
woodland.

--
Robert

Might be pendulous sedge (Carex pendula); it is widespread (I think it
is native but cannot remember) in woodland and often planted. In our
garden, we dug up a huge one when we moved in and spent the next 3
years digging out seedlings like those. The leaves have a distinct
cross section (w shaped?) and the stems are triangular in cross
section.

Des in soggy Dublin

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That looks like one of the foreign ornamental grasses that one now
finds all
over the countryside, especially by canals etc.

The mouse pointer was over 'canals' AIRIA 'camels'...

--
Rusty
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
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On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, robert wrote
Grateful for a name to these:

Http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertindevon/?saved=1

(Clump of plants in front of the pieris and behind the euonymous).

They started to appear in the garden last year and are now popping up
everywhere.

Linear leaves, up to 22mm wide and 400mm long, with very slightly
serrated edges, no indication of flowers.

Location S Devon redlands, garden used to be part of broadleafed
woodland.


Is it a kind of grass? Have you dug one up?

So, how the hell do you look at the pic(s)?

--
Rusty
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
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from Kate Brown contains these words:
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, robert wrote
Grateful for a name to these:

Http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertindevon/?saved=1

(Clump of plants in front of the pieris and behind the euonymous).

They started to appear in the garden last year and are now popping up
everywhere.

Linear leaves, up to 22mm wide and 400mm long, with very slightly
serrated edges, no indication of flowers.

Location S Devon redlands, garden used to be part of broadleafed
woodland.


Is it a kind of grass? Have you dug one up?

So, how the hell do you look at the pic(s)?

Clicking on the link, then the flickr image seems to work

--
Robert

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:16:11 +0100, Kate Brown
wrote:

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, robert wrote
Grateful for a name to these:

Http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertindevon/?saved=1

(Clump of plants in front of the pieris and behind the euonymous).

They started to appear in the garden last year and are now popping up
everywhere.

Linear leaves, up to 22mm wide and 400mm long, with very slightly
serrated edges, no indication of flowers.

Location S Devon redlands, garden used to be part of broadleafed
woodland.


Looks a bit like a sedge which just appears, by air-blown seed.
Is it a kind of grass? Have you dug one up?


Pam in Bristol

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writes
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, robert wrote
Grateful for a name to these:

Http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertindevon/?saved=1

(Clump of plants in front of the pieris and behind the euonymous).

They started to appear in the garden last year and are now popping up
everywhere.

Linear leaves, up to 22mm wide and 400mm long, with very slightly
serrated edges, no indication of flowers.

Location S Devon redlands, garden used to be part of broadleafed
woodland.


Is it a kind of grass? Have you dug one up?

A flash of inspiration - I think that they could be Carex pendula. We
have some mature clumps in the garden (nowhere near these new plants)
and the adjacent woodland that are considerably larger and darker green
but the leaf form is quite similar. It could be that after many years
here we have suddenly been invaded by them.

--
Robert

"robert" wrote in message
...
Grateful for a name to these:

Http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertindevon/?saved=1

(Clump of plants in front of the pieris and behind the euonymous).

They started to appear in the garden last year and are now popping up
everywhere.

Linear leaves, up to 22mm wide and 400mm long, with very slightly serrated
edges, no indication of flowers.

Location S Devon redlands, garden used to be part of broadleafed woodland.

--
Robert


It looks very like Pendulous Sedge, which may have come from the original
woodland. However, there's an outside chance it could be Colchicum. If the
leaves are leathery, it's probably Pendulous Sedge; if they're fleshier and
softer like hyacinth leaves, then they could be Colchicum. Chances are,
though, it's the sedge. It's really quite attractive; some people like it
and choose to grow it, but it can be a bit thuggish. If you don't want it,
pull it up, but you may choose to see it flower first. If you do, but
decide not to keep it, don't allow it to flower or you'll have it forever.
I've got some in a wildish woodland area, but I have to be strict with it.

I should say (just in case it's Colchicum) that it's a choice bulb which
flowers late summer/autumn, so you'll have to wait to see it flower. Worth
it, though :~)

Spider

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Rusty_Hinge writes

So, how the hell do you look at the pic(s)?

Clicking on the link, then the flickr image seems to work

I couldn't make anything work.

I've had this problem with Flicker before. Won't be looking there again.

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Rusty
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
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On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:20:01 +0100, "Spider"
wrote:


"robert" wrote in message
...
Grateful for a name to these:

Http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertindevon/?saved=1

(Clump of plants in front of the pieris and behind the euonymous).

They started to appear in the garden last year and are now popping up
everywhere.

Linear leaves, up to 22mm wide and 400mm long, with very slightly serrated
edges, no indication of flowers.

Location S Devon redlands, garden used to be part of broadleafed woodland.

--
Robert


It looks very like Pendulous Sedge, which may have come from the original
woodland. However, there's an outside chance it could be Colchicum. If the
leaves are leathery, it's probably Pendulous Sedge; if they're fleshier and
softer like hyacinth leaves, then they could be Colchicum. Chances are,
though, it's the sedge. It's really quite attractive; some people like it
and choose to grow it, but it can be a bit thuggish. If you don't want it,
pull it up, but you may choose to see it flower first. If you do, but
decide not to keep it, don't allow it to flower or you'll have it forever.
I've got some in a wildish woodland area, but I have to be strict with it.

I should say (just in case it's Colchicum) that it's a choice bulb which
flowers late summer/autumn, so you'll have to wait to see it flower. Worth
it, though :~)

Spider

I don't think it's colchicum. In my experience that has wider leaves.
If it is the sedge and you let it seed, you will have problems, as
Spider says. In my Mum's garden it seeded itself in cracks in old
crazy paving and became a menace.
Letting it "flower" will give you more idea what it is. Hardly a
flower to enjoy.
I'll bow to Spider's superior knowledge as to which sedge it is!



Pam in Bristol