Flats and Mystery Plants

flat tire
Look at the surprise Michael had waiting for him when outside today? Luckily the old spare was in good condition (and it actually a full sized tire too.) Still not fun of course, mystery plantbut he changed it and is at work now.

The weather is still beautiful, but today is probably the last day of that till the middle of next week. We need the rain though. I went ahead and planted some leaf lettuce outside. As long as we don’t go below 28F it should be okay, and if not, I still have a million little seeds. I also started some basil seeds inside.

Speaking of plants, these little things started sprouting by our garage a couple weeks ago. They are on the north side of the garage (shade) and have tuberous roots. I know it is a little early to identify plants, but do these look familiar? I am in zone 5a. I hope they are pretty, right now I am just happy to see something new and green!

7 Comments

  1. mom
    Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 at 10:04 am | Permalink

    What do they smell like? The answer dirt is not acceptable.

  2. mom
    Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 at 10:08 am | Permalink

    and difine tuberous – a true tuber or a bulb?

    Flat leaves or cylindrical?

    Probably an iris but will be able to quess better if you answer the above questions. xx mom

  3. Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 at 10:09 am | Permalink

    How did you know I was going to say that? :-P It actually kind of smells like aloe but sharper. Not floral at all. It also has really milky sap.

  4. Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 at 10:12 am | Permalink

    Definitely not a bulb, the one I dug up had three tuberous storage roots. It has flat leaves, though they are currently curled up.

    I dug one up, should I post a picture of the whole plant?

  5. Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 at 10:27 am | Permalink

    Here is a photo of the whole plant:

  6. Atara
    Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 at 12:41 pm | Permalink

    My thought when mention of shade was maybe lilies of the valley, since they love shade and are often planted in the shade and areas like that since they take over pretty quickly. This is also the time of the year when they start to peek up. Good luck figuring it out!

  7. mom
    Posted Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 6:43 am | Permalink

    I think its a day lilly not an iris. Day lillies are really hardy (hard to kill) and pretty too. xx