Does anyone know what this flower is?

[Franke]

Picture in my profile. I found it in a friend's garden yesterday. I suspect it's something that grows from a bulb, but other than that I'm clueless. Any ideas?

[TrinityRhino]

cant click on your name to see your profile

[FriedSprout]

Can't see your profile Franke, is it still set on private?

[Franke]

Oh crap. I thought i'd made my profile public. Hang on a mo.

[Taffeta]

Dicentra

[Taffeta]

Or Solomon's seal?

[Franke]

COME BACK! It works now!

[FriedSprout]

Dicentra I think

[Bunbaker]

Soloman's Seal. It used to grow in my last garden, but the slugs loved it and it used to be in shreds every year.

[Taffeta]

Yes it's Solomon's seal otherwise known as polygonatum

[blueberryboybait]

Looks like Solomon's Seal.

[FriedSprout]

Yep, I'm wrong. Solomons Seal it is

[Franke]

Taffeta, thanks so much. I think it's Solomon's Seal (I've never heard of it). Funnily enough I also discovered dicentra yesterday. Both now on my list of plants to buy. Thank you

[Franke]

Crossed posts - thanks all.

[TrinityRhino]

wow its lovely

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

It is lovely, but is a martyr to Solomon's Seal sawfly - the little caterpillars can reduce it to a naked stem. Grr.

[Bunbaker]

You are right CITGM, it was the sawfly caterpillars. The plants never stayed looking nice for long.

[UnrequitedSkink]

Never seen it before but I like it! I thought at first it was a variety of dicentra too. I'm not going to bother bloody buying it though, I don't need the pain of yet another munched plant.