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Recent comments
Re: what is this plant? I love it!
Scotch broom
posted: 12:19 pm on May 13thRe: Japanese Maple or?
Amur maple
posted: 6:54 am on May 13thRe: Identify plant
I think it's an aralia .
posted: 6:45 am on May 13thRe: Tuber or fungus? Or what?
Arum italicum or lords and ladies
posted: 6:36 am on May 13thRe: mystery plant
Balsm
posted: 6:33 am on May 13thRe: 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
posted: 6:27 am on May 13thRe: Low and fast!
Might be a type of Veronica. A cross with Turkish and wooly vars , I think
posted: 6:25 am on May 13thRe: Unknown flower (Solanum family?)
Ruellia purple showers , maybe
posted: 6:18 am on May 13thRe: 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
posted: 6:07 am on May 13thRe: 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)
posted: 6:04 am on May 13thRe: vivid groundcover
it is called lysimachia 'outback sunset'
posted: 12:07 pm on April 29thRe: lots of green foilage
looks like an acanthus (bear's breeches) and a crazy happy one, too :)
posted: 6:55 am on February 22ndRe: Garden in Winter 2nd runner-up! Winter Grasses
this is extraordinarily cool
posted: 6:47 am on February 22ndRe: 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 :)
posted: 6:56 pm on February 19thRe: Mystery blue plant
the color makes me think it might be a gentiana
posted: 10:12 am on December 8thRe: 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
posted: 7:50 am on December 3rdRe: mystery plant?
it could be trollis (globeflower)
posted: 7:38 am on November 27thRe: Unknown Shade Plant Zone 6
I agree with glennt, definately a hypericum
posted: 6:42 am on November 5thRe: Please introduce my mystery plant to me!
it looks like some type of helianthus
posted: 7:51 am on November 2ndRe: NE Illinois autumn bloomer
it's talinum 'limon'. It seeds itself freely in my zn 6-7 garden also
posted: 10:33 am on October 25thRe: Mystery Plant in Missouri
it could be a vitex, a common name is chaste tree
posted: 2:25 pm on October 14thRe: What's this shrub?
maybe manhattan euonoymous
posted: 2:54 pm on September 28thRe: 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 :))
posted: 7:25 am on September 26thRe: What in the heck is this flower????????????????
that bloom is some kind of awesome!
posted: 7:21 am on September 26thRe: Mystery Wildflower with Purple foliage-closeup blooms
looks like perilla frutescens
posted: 7:19 am on September 26thRe: Spring Mystery Plant
it is pasque flower (Pulsatilla)
posted: 5:41 pm on September 24thRe: New to gardening- What is this flowering Plant?
I think it's delphinium
posted: 10:02 pm on September 14thRe: 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)
posted: 7:14 am on September 9thRe: Monster Plant I can't figure out what it is?!?!
maybe princess tree (paulownia tormentosa) or perhaps catalpa
posted: 9:50 am on September 8thRe: 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 :)
posted: 7:11 am on September 8thRe: Aruncus?
it's astilbe chinensis perhaps vision sieries
posted: 6:57 pm on August 31stRe: Do you know what I am??
you have a radermachera sinica, common name is china doll
posted: 7:04 am on August 22ndRe: Shrub with red berries
looks like a lonicera (honeysuckle) maybe tartar or moreii
posted: 9:49 am on August 11thRe: Shrub with white berries
symphoricarpos albus, snowberry bush, is my best guess
posted: 9:44 am on August 11thRe: 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:)
posted: 6:47 am on August 11thRe: 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
posted: 6:51 am on August 3rdRe: What the heck is this thing?
it's resurrection lily (lycoris)
posted: 9:49 pm on July 30thRe: 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
posted: 9:13 pm on July 29thRe: 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
posted: 6:43 am on July 28thRe: Could this be a viburnum too?
maybe viburnum prunifolium
posted: 6:38 am on July 27thRe: 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
posted: 6:34 am on July 27thRe: Mystery Plant??
it is Dalechampia dioscoreifolia, common names include Bow Tie Vine and Costa Rican Butterfly Vine
posted: 9:39 am on July 22ndRe: 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.
posted: 6:55 pm on July 17thRe: 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 :)
posted: 7:49 am on July 13thRe: 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)
posted: 7:33 pm on July 9thRe: Unknown Wildflower
perhaps a type of loosestrife (lysimschia)
posted: 6:19 am on July 2ndRe: Unknown flower ... can anyone identify.
it is called hymenocallis
posted: 6:18 am on July 2ndRe: 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 :)
posted: 6:16 am on July 2ndRe: 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
posted: 6:07 am on June 22ndRe: Unknown Plants - Labelled last year but labels now lost
onclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
posted: 6:50 am on June 10thcentaurea (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)
posted: 6:47 am on June 4thRe: 3 Vegetable plants to figure out!!!
1. looks like pepper
posted: 6:43 am on June 4th2.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
posted: 10:06 am on May 31stRe: 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
posted: 6:46 am on May 19thRe: 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
posted: 6:41 am on May 19thRe: Can anyone identify?
it is a plectranthus called 'lois woodhull' :)
posted: 8:20 pm on May 18thRe: 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 :)
posted: 6:46 am on April 20thRe: It's still a mystery!!! HELP!!
Does it have sticky white sap when leaves or stems are broken? It reminds me of a euphorbia.
posted: 6:27 am on April 12thRe: 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)
posted: 8:20 pm on October 11thRe: Niagara Falls mystery
looks like nut sedge, a really annoying weed here in zn6-7, but I could be
posted: 8:15 pm on October 11thRe: Pretty blue-green-gray cypressy looking plant
it's a chamaecyparis pisifera, not sure of the actual named variety though
posted: 8:13 pm on October 11th