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katie74

fairfax, VA, US
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Recent comments


Re: what is this plant? I love it!

Scotch broom

Re: Japanese Maple or?

Amur maple

Re: Identify plant

I think it's an aralia .

Re: Tuber or fungus? Or what?

Arum italicum or lords and ladies

Re: mystery plant

Balsm

Re: fuzzy leaves and stems, tiny petals

I don't know either but am very curious , those plants pop up regularly in my garden and lawn

Re: Low and fast!

Might be a type of Veronica. A cross with Turkish and wooly vars , I think

Re: Unknown flower (Solanum family?)

Ruellia purple showers , maybe

Re: weed or plant

Looks like lady bells , adenophora stricta. It has behaved (sort of) in my northern va garden but I understand it has thuggish tendencies

Re: Out of control huge bamboo style

I think it might be a type of euphorbia commonly called gopher's purge ( due to the sharp unfortunate scent the roots exude when fooled with)

Re: vivid groundcover

it is called lysimachia 'outback sunset'

Re: lots of green foilage

looks like an acanthus (bear's breeches) and a crazy happy one, too :)

Re: Garden in Winter 2nd runner-up! Winter Grasses

this is extraordinarily cool

Re: What's This Plant?

I believe it's a type of epidendrum (orchid) but can't say for sure without closer shots of blooms and leaves :)

Re: Mystery blue plant

the color makes me think it might be a gentiana

Re: tree id

the pictures are actually really good for id purposes but it could take hours given the number of different a jumping off point would be acer palmatum atropurpereum, good luck

Re: mystery plant?

it could be trollis (globeflower)

Re: Unknown Shade Plant Zone 6

I agree with glennt, definately a hypericum

Re: Please introduce my mystery plant to me!

it looks like some type of helianthus

Re: NE Illinois autumn bloomer

it's talinum 'limon'. It seeds itself freely in my zn 6-7 garden also

Re: Mystery Plant in Missouri

it could be a vitex, a common name is chaste tree

Re: What's this shrub?

maybe manhattan euonoymous

Re: Strange Vine

this has been stumping me since the day you posted it! Could you post a close leaf image and a location? (non-specific location, hardiness zone :))

Re: What in the heck is this flower????????????????

that bloom is some kind of awesome!

Re: Mystery Wildflower with Purple foliage-closeup blooms

looks like perilla frutescens

Re: Spring Mystery Plant

it is pasque flower (Pulsatilla)

Re: New to gardening- What is this flowering Plant?

I think it's delphinium

Re: mystery bulb

this is tigrida. It's native to mexico so I believe you will have to lift them in the fall (unless you are lucky enough to have a micro climate suitable for them)

Re: Monster Plant I can't figure out what it is?!?!

maybe princess tree (paulownia tormentosa) or perhaps catalpa

Re: henry's garnet sweetspire spots

Itea really like wet feet, I can't quite see in the photo if the area is dry or not but I do know (from personal experience) that it can be grown in partial to full sun successfully when given adequate water, so this one may have just sat dry for a brief time as the scorch on the leaves is minimal. Hope this helps :)

Re: Aruncus?

it's astilbe chinensis perhaps vision sieries

Re: Do you know what I am??

you have a radermachera sinica, common name is china doll

Re: Shrub with red berries

looks like a lonicera (honeysuckle) maybe tartar or moreii

Re: Shrub with white berries

symphoricarpos albus, snowberry bush, is my best guess

Re: Another Mysterious Perennial...

tansy (tanicum) popped in my head as soon as I saw your picture, but I'm not sure if that's it, however, I garden in zn 6-7 and do know that this plant is an undesirable weed, so maybe you should pull it and work on the i.d. later:)

Re: Mystery plant

impatiens balsamina, common names include balsam and touch me nots. All parts of the plant and flower are edible, it is annual where I garden (zn 6-7) but seeds will come up every year in the areas I've grown it

Re: What the heck is this thing?

it's resurrection lily (lycoris)

Re: nameless shrubs

the first two pics are mulberry, the last might be syringa (lilac) not sure maybe I can do better with some more images

Re: Do you know what kind of plant this is?

looks like forsythia, which can stop blooming in shade or if repeatedly pruned out of cycle

Re: Could this be a viburnum too?

maybe viburnum prunifolium

Re: Sunflower kind of thing?

it looks like a heLIANTHUS (MABEY LEMON QUEEN)-yikes, sorry about all the yelling, caps lock was stuck- a type of perennial sunflower

Re: Mystery Plant??

it is Dalechampia dioscoreifolia, common names include Bow Tie Vine and Costa Rican Butterfly Vine

Re: what is this plant?

it's common name is poke weed (used in the deep south to make poke salad) the berries stain and were used by native americans to make purple dye. I don't know it's proper botanical name.

Re: Mystery Plant

this looks like variegated comfrey (even more so, now that I noticed how much of it is in the photo behind the primary plant- it has a tendency to run around in the garden :)

Re: SOLVED! Ilex crenata 'Rotundifolia' (Japanese Holly) - Thanks for the help

it looks like an ilex crenata compacta (it grows appx 4-6' high and wide)

Re: Unknown Wildflower

perhaps a type of loosestrife (lysimschia)

Re: Unknown flower ... can anyone identify.

it is called hymenocallis

Re: From Southern Tennessee in the Spring

It's lantana, a very hardworking plant that likes full sun, crappy dirt and not enough water, great for hot kill-zones :)

Re: Mystery Plant that grows babies on its edges!

it is a kalanchoe (not sure of variety name) another common name for it is mother of thousands

Re: Unknown Plants - Labelled last year but labels now lost

onclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
centaurea (pink bachelors button)
looks like a weed
not sure, maybe post a closer pic
could be veronicastrum in super low light, but not sure

Re: SOLVED! Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum) - Thanks for the help!

could be chinodoxa (glory of the snow or similar common name)

Re: 3 Vegetable plants to figure out!!!

1. looks like pepper
2.most likely corn
3. squash or melon

Re: Nice foliage, buttercup-like flowers

stylophrum (there's a very good chance I misspelled it :) common names include wood poppy and celadine poppy

Re: Mystery Plant 4/30/10

it could also be a type of campanula, I have a variety called 'pink octopus', it does bloom (not heavily, could be getting more sun than yours, but the foliage looks identical

Re: Can anyone identify?

most of the plants in that family are grown for foliage, however I suspect the variety you have may be a newer intro (as the bloom looks super nifty) and you can look for more bud set soon

Re: Can anyone identify?

it is a plectranthus called 'lois woodhull' :)

Re: Book Review and Giveaway: Succulent Container Gardens

I have seen her last book and it was remarkable to say the least, however, I'm even more interested in seeing photos of MattM's Redneck Garden (comedy in the garden makes it grow better :)

Re: It's still a mystery!!! HELP!!

Does it have sticky white sap when leaves or stems are broken? It reminds me of a euphorbia.

Re: what is this shrub...

deutzia 'magician'. Prune it for over all shape immediately after flowering next summer (otherwise you may prune out of cycle and get screwed out of the big floral display)

Re: Niagara Falls mystery

looks like nut sedge, a really annoying weed here in zn6-7, but I could be

Re: Pretty blue-green-gray cypressy looking plant

it's a chamaecyparis pisifera, not sure of the actual named variety though