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PS sent earlier as line dropped. perhaps a duplicate
Dear All, Apr 28, 2007
We came across two garden escapes today that are doing nicely at the
side of the rail trail but do not know either.
One is a lily of some kind; 1-cm bulb about 3-cm deep that bears
several, nearly erect, 10-cm long, parallel-sided leaves that are
U-shaped in cross section. Flowers simple, regular, pendant; calyx
lobes and petals blue and spreading slightly to form a bell shaped
flower borne (1-2) at the top of unbranched, nearly erect peduncles that
are nearly as long as the leaves.
The other is boraginaceous (keys to _Mertensia paniculata_);
herbaceous perennial (?) or biennial, leaves ovate, alternate, broadly
acute, short pubescent, dull green and with pale spots on apical half of
upper surface. Calyx and corolla fused, regular, calyx rough pubescent,
12 mm long at anthesis, free teeth of calyx half as long as tube,
corolla lobes imbricate and pink in bud, open corolla with blue lobes
that become pink where fused filaments become free and narrowing below
to a nearly white parallel sided tube, corolla about 1 cm wide and 2 cm
long; stigma simple, ovary superior, of four nutlets. To judge from
shriveled flowers, it has been in flower for at least a week.
Do these ring bells with anyone ?
Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
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