No ideas - can anyone name this plant for me

its lovely whatever it is

thanks sticki - I love it and where it was growing there were lots and it spread about quite well, disappointing as this one has not done as yet, maybe they take a few years to get used to the soil conditions - I do not know anything about them, just like the look of them.

do they grow from a bulb?? i saw something similar at the weekend where we were staying and i thought bulb but i didnt know what it was

yes it is a bulb sticki, wonder if bulbaholic would know what it was.

Are the bulbs are like small white balls? as I think it is a White Bluebell?

I bet he does. It looks like some of the bulbs I saw at Dunblane...now what were they again....will go and look.....hang on....nope, I can't remember the name...it is near the end of my blog on SRGC early bulb display. If you put it on as a Qu. BA will tell you! :)

the one i saw had a bigger flower and more open than a bluebell, reminded me of wild garlic but a bigger flower

Oh, now I'll have to go off and find my RHS encyclopedia...you know what I'm like ;))

Is it a kind of Ornitholagum or Puschkinia scilloides?

I will put a photo of the one i saw on, looking again though I dont think it is the same.

I did wonder if it was wild garlic but it is very floriferous, certainly not a whitebell, bigger flowers than that go for it Karen I knew you would get me the answer. lol. thanks everyone for your efforts in identifying this plant. We shall get it right eventually.

my picture is on now, it has a greenish tinge

Off to look, yes it does have a green tinge.

It looks exactly the same as Sticki's doesn't it! :))

try typing 'ornitholagum nutans' in to the search bar....

oh well done karen, it looks just the same, thank you

Thank you Karensue it does look exactly like that one, Bulba thought it was a bit early for that but I think you are right. Looked at some photographs on others pages of it and yes they do seem like ours sticki.

i agree, the one i saw was in suffolk, perhaps the east of the country has got them early this year?

You are welcome! I love it when I get an i.d. challenge!

Speaking of early....there are bluebells out up here already! I am amazed!

It is worth growing I love the colour of it. Maybe all the sunshine has set it off earlier than usual. Trouble with me is I cannot remember what time of year I saw it down on the side of the workshop. All I know is that they were going to put in a big fence and concrete the posts in and I asked if I could have the bulbs before they concreted I seem to remember there were some other colours on the ground if my memory serves me correctly there were blue ones and I am not sure if there were not yellow ones too but maybe I am wrong. Would be interesting to know if there are other colours of it.

We have bluebells in the garden already, not been in the wood though to see if they are out there. Thanks for the info on my bulb - can you check and see if there are other colours in it too for me please in your book. I am sure there were other colours on the foundry workshop site. I do not know if you can remember the workshop it was the one that ran alongside the driveway to Roses sportsfield where Paul worked, it belonged to Rose Forgrove works and when they sold it the new people fenced it all in for security reasons.

Pleased you found the name it is a very pretty one ;0)

It is very pretty love it I had forgotten I had it :o)

I have a very vague memory of there being something down there Mum, but not really. Ornitholagum does come in other colours..but I really don't know if that type does. Most Ornitholagums seem to hold their flowers fairly erect, whereas yours hang down demurely! Most of the ones on the web are white, but there are some lovely orange ones. Nothing in blue or pink or anything, but perhaps they were bluebells that you saw?

No they were all like this flower as I recall. I was hoping for a mixture of colours they have been in the ground for a long time now and this is the only one that I get. Thanks for looking though.

:) Strange. Pity you can't go back and get some more...but they will all be gone now I suppose. :(

It was all fenced in or I might go and have a search, no hopes of getting in there now, Paul used to know the people who were landscaping it all and begged me the bulbs. Must have been nearly 20 years ago. Doesn't time fly. Think they dug quite a lot out as they were doing a drain to feed a dyke down on the sports ground.

Karen I wonder if the poor soil down that drive side would change the colour of some of the plants, we see it with other plants don't we!