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Mon, May 17, 10 at 14:36
| Hi, I have a couple of plants I've grown in the pond that are all but taking over now and the original tags have been lost so I don't know what they are..
One is a grass of sorts that looks a bit like a spider plant except it doesn't get baby offshoots like a spider plant does. It just keeps growing! It also gets what look like flowers except they're more like an elongated, super skinny, whitish pine cone.. They never really bloom.. Anyway, these images are a few years old so they're much bigger now.. The other is an Iris of one kind or another..Both grow in the pond and both are taking over.. Any ideas what they are? Images are at [img]http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac150/mram50/garden/ponggrass. jpg[/img] and [IMG]http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac150/mram50/garden/iris-a2.jp g[/IMG] |
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- Posted by blue-n-yellow-thumb (My Page) on Mon, May 17, 10 at 14:37
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- Posted by blue-n-yellow-thumb (My Page) on Mon, May 17, 10 at 14:42
| anyways..it won't let me put both images here so they are in the first post.. Thanks |
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- Posted by cliff_and_joann z7 L.I.,NY (My Page) on Mon, May 17, 10 at 15:04
| Here ya go
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- Posted by blue-n-yellow-thumb (My Page) on Mon, May 17, 10 at 15:22
| Thank you! ..and what are they and how did you do dat? ;) |
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- Posted by pashta_2006 Z4 ADK NY (pashta@aol.com) on Mon, May 17, 10 at 19:01
| Maybe some form of spider wort? |
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| The one with the purple flowers looks like a gamecock iris, and as for the grassy one, I don't have a clue. Yet. Sorry I couldn't help more. |
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- Posted by buyorsell888 Zone 8 Portland OR (My Page) on Mon, May 17, 10 at 20:17
| The first one is an iris the second one looks like acorus but could be a carex. Hard to tell. You used UBB code to try to post the images but on this forum you must use HTML code. (img src=paste photo URL here) but use < and > instead of ( and ) |
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- Posted by vickie_norcal9 NorCal 9 (My Page) on Thu, May 20, 10 at 20:28
| 2nd one looks exactly like my varigated sweet flag. |
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- Posted by goodkarma_ 5b (My Page) on Thu, May 20, 10 at 21:49
| The first one looks like blue flag (a type of water iris) and the second one I do not know. Lisa |
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- Posted by sleeplessinftwayne z4-5 IND (My Page) on Fri, May 21, 10 at 12:34
| If the description of the "flower" is right, I think you have a healthy nut sedge. It is an invasive weed in the lawn or garden. Even if it is not nut sedge it is likely to be some other kind of sedge. Remove the seed pods. The leaves will feel a bit stiff. Some sedges are good ornamental plants. If it is an aquatic sedge, it may have come in with some other plant. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Pretty, but still a weed
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