#squill

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Striped Squill (Puschkinia Scilloides)

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Posters & gifts

[eregyrn-falls-art]

Mystery bulb!

A few years ago, I put in a bunch of Siberian squill bulbs, given to me by a friend who does a lot of gardening. Those usually come up in early April.

But this white flower with the blue stripes came up in mid-March, and I'd never seen it before.

There are a bunch of wild tulips (or, "species tulips" I guess they should be called) in this patch of garden too; which I never planted and I have no idea where they came from. But they flower LATER than the squill.

Anyway, my friend helped out and our tentative identification of this was striped squill, or Lebanon squill (Puschkinia scilloides).

But now I'm not so sure, because all of the other photos I can find of striped squill show a petal-sheath structure around the stamens, which these obviously don't have.

^ from the Wikipedia page for Puschkinia scilloides.

BUT, then I did find ONE PAGE where a guy had pics that look like mine, and he was confidently identifying them as Puschkinia scilloides.

So I'm unsure what's up with that.

My friend said that yeah, she has these all over her yard too, so there's a possibility one of those bulbs got mixed in with all of the Siberian squill bulbs. But that this one took longer to mature, so that's why I didn't see it flower last year.

It's cute. I hope it propagates a little.

[briargeese]

Squill and goose down, signs of spring.

[julesofnature]

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” ~ Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

[littlemistit]

"Squill" by Baphomet's Workshop! 18+

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Succulents Part 6--Hyacinthus and Scilla

Succulents are a wide variety of plants, spanning multiple orders. Some have succulent leaves while others have succulent stems. Cactuses are succulents, but not all succulents are cactuses. Defining what exactly makes a succulent is a little tricky. For example, cabbage leaves are considered by some to be succulent, but tulip and onion leaves apparently aren't.

All photos mine. Unedited.

Gorgeous flowers, sadly poisonous to eat. They just look so...well, succulent.

[wordsforrain]

Early spring flowers in my yard, plus some garlic that I planted in 2021 and that didn’t sprout at all in 2022, but somehow decided to stage a comeback in 2023

Scilla mischtschenkoana (White squill)

Hyacinthus orientalis (Common hyacinth)

Muscari armeniacum (Grape hyacinth)

Tulips (no idea what species/variety I planted years ago)

Vinca minor (Periwinkle/Myrtle)

Phlox divaricata (Woodland phlox)

[plants-in-the-clay]

Sunny Scilla

Squill struck

By an errant sunbeam

Slow

Like steps

With sore feet

Sweet sugar smell

Small and striking blue

[skullhaver]

Finally seeing flowers in Ontario so I'm taking you all with me on my journey.

April 11 - Siberian squill

I always forget the name of this unassuming blue-purple flower that grows in bunches, but I have found it again and I will do my best to remember. There are many species of squill that are early spring bloomers. Some are pink and white. Apparently someone decided "squill" was too undignified a name, so they invented an alternate common name, "glory of the snow." Incredible.

[chaosducks]

Hello Ribbons !Just saying hi to everyone out of boredom.

(ooc: first person I added their squip name to in my copied and pasted hello message 😭💀)

Hey Squill, I hope you're doing well, how's Will

💙 Ribbons

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Scilla Siberica (Siberian Squill)

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[briargeese]

goose down blew in the flowers.  The blue squill kept it for dressup.

[anonyb0b]

Hello! Just saying hi to everyone out of boredom.

:]HELLO! :]

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:-)Hello, zhere.

[william-austin]

*sighs* fine, I guess ill take out my drawing tablet.