What is this plant?

[Gardening1]

Hello! New to mumsnet so I'll try to post photos. It's growing at the bottom of the garden in some gravel and I have no idea what it is! Any ideas? xx

I think if you're new you have to wait a few days before you're allowed to post. I think it's 3 days, not sure.
Welcome, and do post the photos when you can.

Can you do a google image search on it?

Thanks for being patient! Didn't realise I'd have to wait a few days. Any ideas? 😊 xxxx

It looks like a mass of small cyclamen corms to me.

I'd plant them, spread out a bit and shallowly I think.

Not corms - they are cyclamen seed pods. When dry and ripe you can scatter the seeds where you want more plants to grow, but they successfully self- sow anyway. I have loads in a shady bed that have spread themselves around over the years.

Thank you so much both of you! I'll try planting the seeds from the pods 😊 xxxxx

Cyclamens are gorgeous when very little else is blooming. Start with those and you could end up with a fabulous drift in years to come. In a kind winter they can bloom for ages.

And yes, those are seeds not corms - but maybe there are some of those lurking too which you might want to move although from the number of seed pods they presumably liked that spot even though it looks a bit unpromising.