Mis-sold bulbs

[Susie]

I have been moaning because the aconites I bought in last autumn haven't appeared - I have just realised that where I put the aconites in is where I have had some yellow crocus come up and I know they weren't there before.

Perhaps I should have realised that the bulbs were wrong when I put them in but I have never handled aconite bulbs before. I wonder how often this goes on?

[Jez]

I'd imagine if the bulbs were loose then people could quite easily pickup bulbs have a look and put them back in the wrong pile or decided to go for some thing different and put down in the nearest place, leaving it to staff members to sort through If they spot them. Nurseries are busy places, many chores to be getting on with, so the mixed up bulbs could get overlooked quite a bit I'd imagine unless you get those staff members who are wised up to the goings on!!! Something which in the farmshop at the nursery I worked at with finding desiree pots, wilja's what have you just been slumped back down!

2 links for you Susie. So you know what to look for, the aconite have quite a nobbly look to them with usually a distinct bobble, anyway have a look you'll see what I mean!

http://z.about.com/d/miniatures/1/0/...lberanthis.jpg

Google Image Result for http://grow.ars-informatica.ca/images/crocus_bulbs.jpg

[ron1863]

It will be a nice surprise when they appear Susie, unless they are in the onion bed.

[Susie]

Thanks for the links, Jez. I know what crocus bulbs look like and I am pretty sure that I remember the bulbs looking like the aconite bulbs in your link. Goodness knows where the crocus came from if that is the case!!

[Jez]

Who knows? When I moved to my home in Bewdley there was a patch in front of the chalet with a lot of aggregate which looked out of place out of style so I got rid, stones old liner and all! Moved a lot of slabs to make a new path going around the house and in turn that provided me with two borders where the previous aggregate lay. Anyway cutting a boring story short, what sprang up was a cracking crop of carrots all dormant since the stones where laid, some years to my reckoning and very tasty to boot! So maybe your Crocus has not a to dissimilar tale???

[Susie]

Guess what I found today. An aconite! Guess I wasn't mis-sold the wrong bulbs after all and I will never know where those crocus came from.

[Jez]

Good on the glad tidings Susie!

[Meta menardi]

Plants are funny old things. My Mum spent ages trying to get Tropoleum speciosum to grow at the old hous in the dales. 10 years after she stopped going ther, it turned up.