What are these flowers?

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Never seen them before. They are in an NT garden.

Bluebells, very common in the uk

Camassia leichtlinii Caerulea

Camassia, they’re beautiful!

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/camassia

In what world are those bluebells?! They look nothing like bluebells

They grow from bulbs. We have white ones which are also lovely.

Scillia?

Definitely camassia

That are lovely, aren’t they? Camassia have become increasingly popular in the last 5 years or so, I’ve seen them at several NT and RHS gardens.

There are great drifts of them on a bank at the entrance to a stately home I drive by regularly. They always look so elegant in the long grass.

They look very similar except for the shape of the individual flowers and are members of the asparagus family together with bluebells and hyacinths amongst others.

Camassia. Beautiful. Scilla are also members of the asparagus family so they must be cousins of sort. ;)

Get the app Picture This and you can identify plants and flowers easily. I used it twice today. Be careful to avoid their attempts to get you to pay for a subscription unless you want to

Another app? And pay for it ?? I like to do it the old fashioned way, use my head. :0
Or even a book, that way I can learn about other families, varieties, species and what not at the same time. But that is just me.... ;)

I find searching an image with Google lens is quite effective as well, but you do have to have a good, in focus photo showing the shape of the flowers and preferably some foliage.

The app is free and it’s excellent-easy to see what things are when you are out and about and don't have a book with you

They don't look all that similar, and they are about as closely related to asparagus as apples are to roses.

The app is great (and free - although I'm sure you can pay for a fancier version). And it empowers books, it doesn't replace them. Much easier to use books to learn about other families, varieties, species and what not if you already have an idea which plant to look up in the index.

Of course you are right. How did we get along before apps?
I'm sure whoever created the app has a great knowledge of everything plant lovers , gardeners and botanists would be interested in.
It's just I really like falling in actual rabbit holes . ;)

If you'd read the book you wouldn't need the app.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camassia
Ahem

@NigelHarmansNewWife Er... I know.

Camassias and bluebells both belong to the family asparagaceae in the same way that apples and roses both belong to the family rosaceae.

hth

There's a bit of snobbery about using an app on this thread and not a book. I have both but, when I walk to the local shops and see something new has come up in a neighbour's garden, an app is a brilliant option (happened yesterday). The day before, I went to visit a friend who had a plant he wanted to identify, I wasn't carrying my nature-related library, so I used the app

If you have an iPhone, you don't need an extra app. Take a photo, open the photo app and swipe up on the picture. There's a bit under it that says "look up plant". I've tested it in the garden and the garden centre and it's right nearly all the time.

But difficult to haul the book around with you when you’re out for a walk and want to identify something.

Because you would have memorised every image in the book and where to find it in the index, and you would see at a glance how the actual plant in front of you mapped on to one of the hundreds of images in the book.

@ClonedSquare thanks for this, I will try it