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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: tim on September 14, 2008, 11:50:31
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1. The Florist's standby greenery?
2. A treelike Thing which has appeared in the border?
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1_ pittosporum tenuifolium
2no idea. Looks like lemon verbena, but you'd have noticed the smell!
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No1 - of COURSE!!
No2 - yes, very alike but, as you say, no smell. And the leaves are alternate.
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could the second be a buddlea ? (never can spell it)
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Re plant 2, is it the green plant or the silver plant you are asking about? Not that I've much idea about either. :-[
valmarg
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Don't know it off hand and it's not in my 'Little books' an' my neighbour's got my 'Big Book of Everything' an' it's after 10PM and he has a big dog so I'm not going round there tonight.
(Might have a go at it tomorrow)
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I think the green plant in the second picture could be a 'willow' and if you have mature willow trees in your neighbourhood, it could be a self sown seedling, as willows seeds blow everywhere.
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2) definately a buddlea seedling
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Good tries - & thanks!
But.......here it is with Buddleia & Willow.
Valmarg - the green one.
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Having looked up various varieties of buddlea in my RHS book, if it's not Lemon Verbena, it could possibly be the white flowered variety of buddlea, called Peace!
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there's no alternative -
Woodman, spare that shrub! touch not a single bough....til we can see some flowers
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Bit young for flowers yet, but I'll watch out!
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Could it be a pomegranate from a discarded seed?
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Watch this space!!
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Don't think I can wait till spring, Tim! grrr The suspenses is killing me! lol If you would care to send me a piece I could take it to my local horticultural college 1/2 mile down the road from me. Only a thought! lol
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I thought it was rose bay willow herb :-\
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It doesn't look like my dwarf pomegranate... any nasty sharp terminals or spurs?
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it does look like a willow, and it does look a little like Rosebay Willowherb. Who fancies doing some reverse engineering and looking up all the salicifoliums?
Something for the winter evenings :D
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I think you have just volunteered! ::)
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I thought it was rose bay willow herb :-\
So did I - very invasive
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I think you have just volunteered! ::)
I usually spend the winter under the cloud of SAD. That would probably send me over the edge :D
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Liquorice??
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I thought it was rose bay willow herb :-\
So did I - very invasive
No definitely not. I did say in my earlier post that I'd not much idea, but having driven from here to Ashbourne this morning, the local rose bay willow herb has flowered, and the seeds are being blown about.
valmarg
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Gardenqueen - yes please??
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Having looked in my 'library' ;D I would tend to agree with Tyke - liquorice, aka glycyrrhiza glabra.
valmarg
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If that's liquorice then i'm a ray of sunshine.......... :D
Tim's leaves are alternate and liquorice leaves are opposite (foe a start)
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;D
my second choice, after a young rose bay willow herb, would be a Weigela seedling - what I can see of the stems in Tim's picture also look right as well :)
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If that's liquorice then i'm a ray of sunshine.......... :D
Well, I was basing my guess on feminine logic. Tyke = Yorkshireman. Liquorice is grown in Yorkshire, ie Pontefract cakes. I thought Tyke may have had insider information. ;D ;D
valmarg
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There is a white form of Rosebay willow herb... it is taking over in one of the NGS gardens in North Derby... , even I want some! :-[
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Lol! Sorry to mislead you into thinking i had insider knowledge. i've never actually seen a liquorice plant. The liquorice plants were all made redundant at the same time as the coal mines were shut...
I happened to be reading a book on herbs, that had a photo of one that looked very similar. Leaves not pointy enough either as i found out after i used google images....
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Ah well Tyke, back to the drawing board. ??? In that case I really, really have no idea. ;D
valmarg
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this could go on til next Summer :D
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it might need to so that it flowers and we can put this to rest ;D
could even be a fuchsia seedling
Tim, if you are still reading these ideas you need to look around your own garden and any nearby so as to have a better idea :)
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could even be a fuchsia seedling
No, as a fuchsia grower, most definitely not.
I should have to say, despite my posts, I'm beginning to lose interest.
The emoticon that is missing is a big yawn. ;D
valmarg
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Sorry to bore you - wait till Gardenqueen says I can send her a sample?
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Sorry, Tim it's not boredom, more impatience. ;D ;D
valmarg
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ok folks Tim is sending me a sample so hopefully all will be resoved soon. Nettie
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I have a Hebe growing in my garden that looks a lot like that.. I thought it was a willow for quite a while. Can't remember the variety, but it has white willow-stylee flowers. Just a suggestion. :)
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It looks rather like the unusual buddleia that I've been trying to name, and Valmarg suggests is buddleia lindleyana, see the thread:
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,46245.0.html
Having not seen one as a plantlet, I can't say, but the adult leaves are a darkish, glossy green (by buddleia standards), and soft and grey underneath. Apparently this can sucker to long distances, e.g. 10ft from the parent plant - do you have a buddleia of that description nearby? Doesn't look like rosebay to me, nor willow. (Preparing to eat my hat, of course...)