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Lots of new plants to learn about
My brother in law has just moved into a new house. They aren't interested in the garden but I found lots of new plants I hadn't seen before. Could you help me identify them, love the fact you never stop learning when it comes to gardening.
1) This is a large shrub, with pine like needles and these pink flowers.
2) This again looks like a pine, but it is just so soft...
3) This tree, great for my nephew to climb when he gets older, but what is it, not sure these are apples.
thank you for any help you can give me.
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I think 1 is a grevillea, couldn't say which one , not very familiar to me
2 Euphorbia cypariasis
3 pittosprum
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think the first one is a grevillea, its the curled flower form I recognise.
No idea about the others , sorry.
I agree the first one is a grevllilia - we had one here when we moved in and I took a sprig to Wisley for an ID. That was in the days before I discovered the Forum
The euphorbia has bright acid yellow flowers in the spring and then spreads like mad! I have just dug up a bucket load; it had tiny red roots. It will be back next year but I just don't want it everywhere.
Reading peanuts question I think in the case of picture 2 he is referring to the plant with blue-green needles, which I think is a juvenile Pinus pinea the Stone pine; the needles will be longer and harder as it ages, at which stage it is best removed.
I think it's this, Euphorbia cypariasis Fens Ruby'
In the sticks near Peterborough
If the plant thought to be euphorbia has a milky white sap (irritant) then it is definitely euphorbia