What is this bush/tree/plant?

[Limejuice]

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wtf is this fruit?
picked off a shrub in spain
hard as rock
looks kind of half apple half pear
its big too....bigger than a cooking apple

Quince?

 

[ska invita]

good call...ive never seen a quince...looking at pictures they tend to be yellow, not green and red like this one, but its definitely a lumpy hard bastard like this example

 

[ringo]

What are these flowers? Providing some nice colour at the moment and seeing them everywhere

 

[Callie]

Cyclamen you can get tiny little wilder versions that like to grow under trees. Good winter colour. I've got some in a new planter by my front door but didn't put enough drainage in it so they're drowning

 

[ringo]

Cyclamen you can get tiny little wilder versions that like to grow under trees. Good winter colour. I've got some in a new planter by my front door but didn't put enough drainage in it so they're drowning

Great, thanks very much

 

[Callie]

They come in white and pink and mixed colours and some gave variegated foliage, some don't. They're pretty hardy, I've had a white one as a houseplant for a few years but he does spend a lot of time dormant!

 

[ringo]

They come in white and pink and mixed colours and some gave variegated foliage, some don't. They're pretty hardy, I've had a white one as a houseplant for a few years but he does spend a lot of time dormant!

I've just bought 6 mixed colour small plants from Ebay. I've got a couple of spots which have good summer perennials but now they've died back there's bare earth so these can fill it for winter. They seem OK with shade too, so two will go between my ferns along a north facing wall.

 

[campanula]

At this time of year, they are cyclamen hederifolium .

 

[Leafster]

At this time of year, they are cyclamen hederifolium .

I've often wondered what variety the cyclamens are that are sold this time of year as winter bedding or for tubs. They don't seem as hardy as hederifolium or coum or at least they don't seem to last from one winter to the next with me.

 

[StoneRoad]

I agree, cyclamen are good for colour, but they are one thing I have almost no luck with ... even as houseplants.

 

[gentlegreen]

And they do have an elusive fragrance - even the fancy modern ones - en masse at the garden centre, but not when I get them home, and when I succumb to their charms and take them home, they get sick and keel over - and this was my windswept bathroom windowsill...

The one I left in its teeny pot plonked on top of the compost in a window box is knackered, but has just flowered again ...

 

[ringo]

What are these? I have 3, also in flower, but have forgotten what they're called and need to check on self seeding etc.

 

[Leafster]

They are Mahonias

 

[lizzieloo]

I love the smell of mahonia

 

[campanula]

Mahonia japonica would be my guess...rather than the prostrate mahonia aquifolium or the much taller mahonia x media...although to my mind, they are all good shrubs, especially at this time of year.

 

[ringo]

Mahonia japonica would be my guess...rather than the prostrate mahonia aquifolium or the much taller mahonia x media...although to my mind, they are all good shrubs, especially at this time of year.

Definitely japonica, I always buy Japanese and then Chinese variants first [emoji106]

 

[lizzieloo]

Mine went mouldy, after 3 years of trying to make it not be mouldy I took it out

 

[gentlegreen]

 

[campanula]

No idea of the scale of this Gentlegreen (and crappy eyesight too). Could be a lot of things...from bergenia to saxifrage.

 

[bi0boy]

 

[gentlegreen]

Winter heliotrope ?

Winter Heliotrope - Petasites fragrans | NatureSpot

 

[geminisnake]

They're pretty hardy,

Not here they're not Never had a cyclamen inside or out that wasn't an annual

 

[Artaxerxes]

Picked these last autumn but not entirely sure what they are, suspect maple of some kind but they are quite large.

 

[Brainaddict]

Picked these last autumn but not entirely sure what they are, suspect maple of some kind but they are quite large.


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American sweetgum - liquidambar styraciflua?

 

[Artaxerxes]

American sweetgum - liquidambar styraciflua?

Might be it actually, google says they've planted at least one around here and it was a very vibrant red when I got hold of it.

 

[campanula]

Much narrower growth than the usual maples. Named varieties (Worplesden, Lane Roberts) have much more reliable autumn colouration than the straight species. A lovely tree for a neutral/acidic soil)

 

[ringo]

Looking for something new to sit in pots below a North facing wall. What is this that's just appeared in my foyer?
My work that is, I don't have a foyer

 

[gentlegreen]

 

[gentlegreen]

Given it probably isn't a grass, I googled "grass-like cactus" and came up with :-

Rhipsalis-Old Man's Beard - Google Search

 

[ringo]

Given it probably isn't a grass, I googled "grass-like cactus" and came up with :-

Rhipsalis-Old Man's Beard - Google Search

That looks like it, good sleuthing