The 'Name that Plant' Thread

Worztron

Anyone know this one (the one with green leaves with yellow on the edges)? I think a darker leafed plant is growing in the middle of it (please name that also). Cheers.

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Worztron

lottpaul wrote: »

Potentilla, but am not sure which particular one.

Is it Mckay's White from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasiphora_fruticosa?

lottpaul

Worztron wrote: »

Anyone know this one (the one with green leaves with yellow on the edges)? I think a darker leafed plant is growing in the middle of it (please name that also). Cheers.

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At a glance I would say its a form of dogwood? but am not 100% sure. Is the darker leafed plant a branch of the other one that has just reverted to the original colour? Check and see if they are coming from the same stem/rootstock.

Wyldwood

Not sure what the plant is, I thought maybe a variegated weigela but the leaf doesn't look quite right. Does the plant flower?

In any case that's not a darker plant growing up through it, the plant is reverting to the original green it was before the variegation was introduced. You need to cut all the dark green branches out right down to base unless you want the whole plant to revert to the dark green.

rje66

+1 on above 2posts

looksee

I agree the stems look more like dogwood, it think it is a varigated dogwood, though my first thought was also weigela, but the leaves are a bit soft and large looking. As Wyldwood says though, you need to cut those dark bits out completely, even if you have to go under the soil to do it. Otherwise you will just have a dark green shrub.

Worztron

Wyldwood wrote: »

Not sure what the plant is, I thought maybe a variegated weigela but the leaf doesn't look quite right. Does the plant flower?

In any case that's not a darker plant growing up through it, the plant is reverting to the original green it was before the variegation was introduced. You need to cut all the dark green branches out right down to base unless you want the whole plant to revert to the dark green.

I don't recall it flowering. What would cause a plant to go from dark green to a lighter green/yellow and then back to dark green? I don't mind the darker green.

lottpaul

Worztron wrote: »

I don't recall it flowering. What would cause a plant to go from dark green to a lighter green/yellow and then back to dark green? I don't mind the darker green.

Generally the variegated/coloured plants are just "mistakes" from an original plant that people liked and propogated. The natural inclination of the plant is to go back to its natural colour. If you don't tear these darker bits off the whole plant will eventually go back to the darker shade.

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mel.b

Can anyone ID this little bedding plant for me? I got it shortly after Bloom but it didn't have a tag on it so I don't know what it is.

looksee

Looks a bit like a busy lizzy, but I haven't seen one as trailing as that, and the leaves don't look quite right. :-) So possibly its not!

mel.b

looksee wrote: »

Looks a bit like a busy lizzy, but I haven't seen one as trailing as that, and the leaves don't look quite right. :-) So possibly its not!

Is a busy lizzy an impatient? If so, it's not rhat. It's quite small - i have in a smallish terricotta pot three of them planted. I think i recall the lady in the nursery saying its name starting with a 'f' if that's any help. I also don't think its meant to be a trailling flower and thats just happened because of the way the pot is hanging.

Wyldwood

Surfinia?

mel.b

Nope, it's flat, rather than having the shape of a surifina. Googling 'small purple flowers' i wonder could it be a type of phlox? That would fit with the 'f' spund i remember.

looksee

Oh silly woman (me) I think its a Petunia Million Bells (there's one here http://betterhousekeeper.com/2014/05/23/7-beautiful-flowers-to-grow-in-hanging-planters-on-your-porch-or-balcony/ ) I have one in a pot outside the door, but mine is different colours.

No. 7 on that page

mel.b

I don't think it is looksee. It doesn't have the pointy tubular shape that a petunia has where it goes into the stem and the petals are distinct, rather than all in one.

I think a trip back to the nursery this afternoon is in order!

mel.b

The garden centre confirmed it is a new type of bedding Phlox.

Worztron

Hi. Does anyone know the name of the plant in the attached image? Thanks.

bungaro79

planted these in a box at the start of the summer but threw away the packet so don't know what they are! they are attracting some amount of butterflies!

looksee

The shrub is Euonymus and the flowers are Sweet Williams

lottpaul

bungaro79 wrote: »

planted these in a box at the start of the summer but threw away the packet so don't know what they are! they are attracting some amount of butterflies!

Dianthus barbatus -- Sweet William - beautiful scent, old fashioned flower enjoying a bit of a revival.

Worztron

looksee wrote: »

The shrub is Euonymus and the flowers are Sweet Williams

Cheers.

Would it be 'Euonymus fortunei' to be precise?

Worztron

Does anyone know this one? A Berberis?

Wyldwood

yes a Berberis. I think it's called Thunbergii Atropupurea Nana but I'm open to correction.

celtictiger

Could anyone please tell me what type of tree this is....I think it's a willow but if so what kind? Cheers!

Worztron

Does anyone know this one?

celticbhoy27

Worztron wrote: »

Does anyone know this one?

Photinia. red robin

Worztron

And this one?

Oldtree

Pittosporum

Worztron

Oldtree wrote: »

Pittosporum

Hi Oldtree. Do you know the specific type?

Oldtree

sorry not an expert on shrubs