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New Garden Plant IDs
Hi everyone,
We've recently moved in to a new place and have a lot of plants in the garden that we can't ID. If any of you happen to know what some or all are it'd be much appreciated, thanks. I'll number the photo sections just to be clear which plants are being referred to as some of them have more than one photo to show different parts of the plant. The garden is in quite an overgrown state at the moment so there are many more shrubs around the place but these look the most interesting at the moment.
Plant No. 1 (spiky leaved plant)
Plant No. 2 (yellow flowered shrub)
Plant No. 3 (shrub/tree in upper left half of first photo)
Plant No. 4
Plant No. 5
Plant No. 6 (rounded shrub)
Plant No. 7 (yellow daisy flowers)
Plant No. 8 (maroon and white flowers)
Plant No. 9
Thanks for any help. Lucid
We've recently moved in to a new place and have a lot of plants in the garden that we can't ID. If any of you happen to know what some or all are it'd be much appreciated, thanks. I'll number the photo sections just to be clear which plants are being referred to as some of them have more than one photo to show different parts of the plant. The garden is in quite an overgrown state at the moment so there are many more shrubs around the place but these look the most interesting at the moment.
Plant No. 1 (spiky leaved plant)
Plant No. 2 (yellow flowered shrub)
Plant No. 3 (shrub/tree in upper left half of first photo)
Plant No. 4
Plant No. 5
Plant No. 6 (rounded shrub)
Plant No. 7 (yellow daisy flowers)
Plant No. 8 (maroon and white flowers)
Plant No. 9
Thanks for any help. Lucid
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2. Hypericum
3. Tree Ivy
4. Lysymachia
5. Tanacetum
6. Spirea
7. Ragwort (a poisonous noxious weed)
8. Leycesteria
9. Hypericum (same family as 2 but a much better plant. Florists use the berries in arrangements - remove leaves)
I think these are right but someone else may be able to give you more details. Lovely to have numbers, wish everyone would do this, makes it a lot easier.
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Agreed. But since the seeds can travel far and wide on the breeze, it would be neighbourly to deadhead them.
@Loraine3 - that's brilliant, thank you so much for helping with all of those. I'd never even heard of tree ivy before - we've also got it growing on top of the garage, which makes sense now I know it's ivy. I'm also pleased to see we've got yellow loosestrife - I was way off thinking it was a type of bog primula! We've got two types of lythrum loosestrife that we brought along from our old pond but I'd completely forgotten you could get this yellow loosestrife. Definitely a keeper for the new pond when we build it.
@punkdoc - thanks for your point about the cinnibar moth as we are wildlife friendly gardeners. The ragwort is actually in the wildflower verges up the road from us so hopefully there is enough around. When I saw it said that it's poisonous I thought I best check whether it's the wildflower that's bad for grazing animals, and have found it is. We've got a horse paddock across the road so I think we'll be safer to remove that from the garden. But hopefully the cinnibar moths will flourish with the load of it that's further up the road.
@Buttercupdays - thanks for your suggestions for the varieties. I really like to know exactly what plants we've got for my records but that's the trouble with an inherited garden as I imagine it's really hard to distinguish some plants. I'll keep a note of those though and keep a check on them. I agree (now that I know what I'm looking at) that No. 5 is a type of Thalictrum as the flowers weren't daisy like and I think the leaves match up.
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