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It is difficult to see any differences among your yellow ones.  How can you distinguish them?

The label in its pot says Eucomis vandermerwei, with seeds from Gordon Summerfield, but the flowers are the wrong colour, and are sweetly scented.  I grew Eucomis montana from Silverhill seeds, but have no pot labelled as that.

What might it be?

Do hummingbirds like them?

There are only a few dead Roscoea flowers,   so each flower must stay in bloom for a long time.

My main problem with photographing flowers is wind.

It looks similar to Opuntia fragilis which grows near the coast here in British Columbia, Canada, and Washington, U.S.A.

Plant World Seeds lists all the species included in their mixed packets.  Have you checked with them?

Yes, I use a cloth dipped in soapy water and rub the scale off the stems.

Does one need to bruise the basil or mint to release the scent?

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Well, one good thing about these reluctant arisaemas;  they are not going to be invasive.

I have no bracken - that was the place with the English bluebells.

My arisaema was near some tall bamboo.  Very visible if it had bloomed.  It was when I hired a backhoe driver to come and dig out all the bamboo that the arisaema came up.

I guess no one was looking under the bracken.   I had an arisaema remain underground for 12 years before emerging to  flower again, but hiding underground for centuries does sound mythical.

Did you keep track of which BX it was?

I've never seen a crocus seedhead.  If the bulbs haven't been dug up and eaten by the Eastern grey squirrels that some idiot introduced, then an introduced rabbit has eaten the flowers.