What is this bush/tree/plant?

[Leafster]

Yes, it's a weed. Can't remember what it's called though.

 

[clicker]

anyone know what the red bush is called please? small red rounded leaves and no bloom. thanks

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Yes, it's a weed. Can't remember what it's called though.

Ivy-leaved toadflax according to gentlegreen

 

[Leafster]

Ivy-leaved toadflax according to gentlegreen

That's the one!

 

[Leafster]

anyone know what the red bush is called please? small red rounded leaves and no bloom. thanks

It could be a cotinus.

 

[story]

I encountered this on my travels over the weekend.
This one is moderately smelly - and I'm guessing it's in the mint family ...


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That's ground ivy. Glechoma hedera.

It's labiatae, as you say.The stem is square when you twirl it through your fingertips, a characteristic of this family.

Good medicine. One of my favourites.

The flavour is more minty this year than ever I recall in the past. Maybe because of the wet? But the smell results from the volatiles, a defence against the heat of summer so....

 

[gentlegreen]

Thanks.

 

[clicker]

I've kind of ended up with these ...what are they?

Is the bottom one just the same type as the top one, they are getting on my nerves a bit as they're like rabbits - they look ok in the top one, but get all these straggly bits hanging down, hundreds of the blighters, have run out of people to pot them up for and give away....and they end up looking manky and worn out - i feel sorry for it....is there an ideal way to keep them loking like the top one? thanks

 

[clicker]

It could be a cotinus.

thanks i reckon you've nailed it, a friend is coveting it in her neighbours garden .

 

[gentlegreen]

sempervivum

 

[clicker]

sempervivum

ooh thanks...are they both the same thing...why is one all rosette like and the other a bit manky?

 

[clicker]

sempervivum

just googled them..are they for outdoors? That would make things so much easier, i've been trying to contain them in indoor pots, outdoors i could let them do what they wish in a pot...but the ones i've googled havent got the dangly bits?

 

[geminisnake]

the bottom pot is too small for the plant imo

 

[gentlegreen]

Pretty sure they all are. hardy.
Also called houseleeks and apparently only do well "in houses where the woman wears the trousers"
They will want free-draining soil - popular for living roofs as they're slow-growing .

 

[gentlegreen]

They're probably pretty diverse in the way they grow - and it probably depends how much space, nutrition and water they get.

 

[clicker]

It does actually make perfect sense what you've said, for them to mat form as a living roof....i've been trying to keep them in pots and they get all heavy ended and the rosettes growing down the strands get not much water/ food i expect...they shrivel and go sorry for themselves...will shove one in a sink out the back tomorrow and wish it well.

 

[tendril]

Shrub ID please :







Ta muchly O knowledgeable folk of suburban

 

[gentlegreen]

The one with the jaggedy leaves and berries is a mahonia.

 

[Leafster]

I agree with gg on the mahonia and the other one is probably a photinia (I think)

 

[tendril]

I agree with gg on the mahonia and the other one is probably a photinia (I think)

Yup, looks like it. Thanks

 

[kittyP]

thanks i reckon you've nailed it, a friend is coveting it in her neighbours garden .

My parents have one and they are really beautiful.

 

[geminisnake]

I agree with gg on the mahonia and the other one is probably a photinia (I think)

The second one is a photinia. Got two in the garden. Also got a mahonia but it doesn't look like that(possibly because I've been trying to kill it for a while)

 

[May Kasahara]

WTF is this tree please?

Sorry, hang on...new Photobucket is ever shitter than the old one...

 

[May Kasahara]

 

[clicker]

is it a monkey puzzle tree? if so I think jet is meant to form underneath it ...but am probably wrong.

 

[toggle]

monkeypuzzle i think

 

[gentlegreen]

Yes- Araucaria araucana.
The nuts are apparently tasty if you can get hold of them.

 

[gentlegreen]

I had no idea that jet is specifically petrified monkey puzzle - but the vegetation was very different back then.

 

[clicker]

Maybe it's a strong survivor....not sure where they are originally from though?

 

[gentlegreen]

Maybe it's a strong survivor....not sure where they are originally from though?

South America now I believe, but Scarborough (where a lot of Jet is found) was tropical back then ..