Solved Bit of a mystery.

This beastie appeared about 5 years ago in spring and I thought initially it was a hyacinth which I have had in that space before. However it didn't flower or die back it stayed there until winter. Since then it has popped up every year gradually getting bigger and producing more of a rosette. I've been waiting for a flower, but it seems reluctant.
I have no idea where it came from, I didn't sow or plant anything in that bed.
Any educated guesses.

 

Google suggests- Aletris farinosa ->
I'm not sure tho, the leaves are similar but not identical



or I thought maybe a lily that's maturing - very slowly, and will flower when big enough.

 

Eucomis springs to mind. But that's just a guess, not a particularly educated one!

 

When it dies down for winter, how about potting it up and having a good look at the bulb to see if it gives any clue?

 

Looks like the leaves just emerging on our Scilla peruviana

 

Scilla peruviana did cross my mind, mine are just poking through in a different bed, but they disappear over summer and then reemerge while this beastie has been there all summer.
I think I'll have to have a furtle around and see what's underneath and then cross fingers and hope for a flower.

 

Very interesting thread
Jenny namaste

 

It could be an Eucomis, Pineapple flower native South Africa, or Camassio, so the Burford garden center expert

 

It could be a Eucomis, but from where?
Curiously I spotted that leaves had appeared on a Eucomis in a different bed yesterday; completely different in form to these and I really need to move those to a more suitable space

 

Just to stir things it looks a bit Fritillary like to me.

 

@NigelJ I grew eucomis in pots when we lived in Belgium and stood them on a couple of manhole covers in a front, south facing bed because I was told they were too nesh for wintering in the ground. They self seeded with gay abandon and not just in the immediate soil and proved to be hardier than you'd think.

 

It does look Eucomis like. Inclined to agree with @CarolineL tho I'd take it up now and remove the soil so that you can see what it's actually growing from . If it's been going for 5 years and still looking that healthy, I can't see you damaging it by taking it up. As you want to move it anyway, the sooner done the better IMO - even if you end up planting in a pot whilst you decide what it is and where you want it.

 

I was typing what he said to me, and clicked the “Post” button. Eucomis need it very warm to flower, he said.
Maybe you can ask your local GC expert the next time.

 

@NigelJ , the first picture, when was that taken?
I find it strange that you are getting Eucomis starting to leaf up now, all the Eucomis I have are mostly summer growing so are still green but getting to the end of the growing season.

 

@pete the first picture was taken last Thursday and it's looked like that since spring, the other one Eucomis zambesiaca that has just leafed up has done this before in dry summers. It leafs up once there is sufficient moisture, which is why I ought to move it to a different part of the garden.