Still Mystery Flowers, Wicker Park, Chicago
These are the flowers that have bloomed so far in my flowerbed. Can anyone identify what type they are now that we can see the flowers? Whoever planted these bulbs must have liked purple. I think there are some tulips on the other end of the flowerbed (not in these photos) but they haven’t bloomed yet.
See also:
ยป Spring Has Sprung, a previous post where we tried to figure out what these were before they had flowers.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Tom // Apr 10, 2004 at 12:07 pm
They look distinctly like a flower called ‘blue bells’ over here in the U.K. - Not sure of the latin name?
2 Tom // Apr 10, 2004 at 12:15 pm
Try this: http://www.oldknobbley.com/
Life/WFlowers/Bluebell.htm
3 Arthur // Apr 10, 2004 at 1:16 pm
Spring springs even in Chicago.
Your flowering pictures made me smile.
4 Arthur // Apr 10, 2004 at 5:15 pm
Checking Whiteflower Farms’s Fall catalogue I found Scilla, Bluebelle or squill that seemed to fit this description - Tom called them Blue bells - probably the same flower…. check out:
http://www.mediterraneangardensociety.org/plants/Scilla.peruviana.cfm
5 mom // Apr 11, 2004 at 7:42 am
I think they’re Hyacinth that need tlc and plant food !
mom
6 Adam // Apr 13, 2004 at 12:20 pm
One of the researchers (the one with the most gardening knowledge) in our fact-checking dept. here at work said it was either a Nerine Lily (Nerine bowdenii, how ’bout that?!) or an Agapanthus.
7 rachelleb // Apr 13, 2004 at 9:57 pm
so you guys are not only pizza experts, but flower experts too!?!? are you going to make fun of my pizza review when i have chicago style pizza for the first time?
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