Plant ID Thread (Merged)

Sunnyday

Thankyou, i now know what to look for.

Hopefully i shall be able to get some tomorrow.

SD

Katgoddess

These are in the garden of my new house, and I haven't a clue what they are. Could you help me identify them so I know how to look after them. :beer:
Larger pictures are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81142652@N00/sets/72157616614200157/

A - Largish purple flowers. Also growing in my hedge!



B - Very small tiny blue flowers, and a sticky stem. In the middle of my lawn. Is it a weed or should I try and move elsewhere?



C - Small shrub bursting into life!



D - I've seen these in other people's gardens, without the red broccoli type things.



E - Yellowish/greenish leaves. Excuse the grass!



F - The lighter leaves. The dark leaves are my neighbours hedge.



G - Reddish greenish leaves.




I've also got a rose bush, lavender, grape hyacinths, hydrangeas, bluebells, and dandelions :rolleyes:. But I've managed to identify them.

SuzieMum

D looks like a sedum to me with last years dead flowers on (you can cut these down and they will flower again this year - pink brocolli head type flowers!). Sorry can't help with the rest!

elsien

Could A be a periwinkle (vinca major/minor) - likes shade and is meant to grow well in spots that other plants don't like. (Having said that, mine has never flowered!)
D is definitely a sedum.
Your reddish yellowish one (E) I think is a type of spirea - looks very similar to one of mine, one of the golden ones.
F - maybe a weigela? (bit of a guess that one, depends how big it grows.)

lindab15

'A' looks like a Vinca (Periwinkle) to me - I've got some in my garden and it spreads / trails like mad, but the flowers are lovely and it can be good cover and smother weeds etc.

'B' looks like a Forget-Me-Not - again, really spreads - despite having gravel etc around my front lawn, this had popped up everywhere. Don't mind, actually quite pretty and the bees etc like it. Easy enough to pull up the bits that spread to areas you don't want it in

No idea about 'C' !

'D' is a Sedum - costs a lot for a mature / decent size variety at a garden centre. Cut off the 'red broccoli' bits (lol) which are last years ead flower heads, the new fleshy leaf growth will continue and will flower late summer / early autumn - bees/butterflies love it.

Can't see the picture for 'E' - will look again later.

'F' is something I know and have in the garden, but can't for the life of me remember its name..... sorry ! It'll come to me later and I'l pop back on - but sure someone else will know. Has lovely spikes of white or blue or lilac flower heads (dependent on variety) late spring/early summer, I think.

'G', feel I should know but can't think. Hope someone else can.

Good luck !

pollyskettle

Is 'F' a hebe?

annie123

Katgoddess wrote: »

These are in the garden of my new house, and I haven't a clue what they are. Could you help me identify them so I know how to look after them. :beer:
Larger pictures are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81142652@N00/sets/72157616614200157/

A - Largish purple flowers. Also growing in my hedge! periwinkle minor will grow full sun or shade, pull up bits with roots and replant anywhere you like, great for ground cover, but also hides slugs and snails!



B - Very small tiny blue flowers, and a sticky stem. In the middle of my lawn. Is it a weed or should I try and move elsewhere? forget me knots, when they have finished flowering, collect seed and scatter where you want them to flower next year



C - Small shrub bursting into life!.....no idea but could be a late honeysuckle?



D - I've seen these in other people's gardens, without the red broccoli type things. Sedum, if its planted in full sun the butterflies will love it



E - Yellowish/greenish leaves. Excuse the grass!....no idea sorry



F - The lighter leaves. The dark leaves are my neighbours hedge. This is a hebe veronica



G - Reddish greenish leaves......I've seen them and cant think what it is, sorry




I've also got a rose bush, lavender, grape hyacinths, hydrangeas, bluebells, and dandelions :rolleyes:. But I've managed to identify them.

Answers in red
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JabT_2

G looks like a Pieris

Money_maker

Agree with Annie123. Picture E is very hard to see - perhaps you could pick one with leaves and rephotograph? May be a bulb of some sort.

The broccoli bits on the sedum are the flower stems - these ones are finished. I should cut them out and look forward to the new ones to come in summer/autumn.

G looks very much like a spirea - would be easier to identify once in flower.

donnalou

I think C is Honeysuckle