What is this bush/tree/plant?

[trashpony]

My sister wants this tree and has sent me a pic but I'm crap at trees

Any ideas?

 

[gavman]

i was going to suggest 'a type of fig' for the big green mutant tree...until i saw the cucumber-like fruit

 

[Mrs Magpie]

buttercups also have 5 petals ...

Buttercup, of the pernicious creeping variety.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

My sister wants this tree and has sent me a pic but I'm crap at trees

Any ideas?

Robinia pseudoacacia?
Laburnum?

 

[geminisnake]

When was the photo taken trashy? A laburnum should have seed pods(like small dried out pea pods) on it just now, unless they've passed down there.

 

[trashpony]

Today. I have thought it was a laburnum when she described it but it definitely isn't (because I showed one to her). Robinia it is! Thank you Mrs M

 

[Mrs Magpie]

They get enormous.

 

[8115]

Does anyone know what this is? I'd kind of assumed someone had planted a pineapple, but it's flowering.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23457573@N07/5886649683/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23457573@N07/5887217250/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23457573@N07/5887218036/in/photostream/

 

[gentlegreen]

yucca

possibly gloriosa

More related to an onion than a pineapple ...

Botanical Name:
Yucca gloriosa
Other names:
Palm lily, Roman candle, Tree lily, Adam's needle, Lord's candlestick, Mound lily
Genus:
Yucca
Species:
Y. gloriosa ~ y. gloriosa is a handsome architectural plant, with pointed upright leaves and tall white flower spikes.

http://beautifulgardens.shootgardening.co.uk/sitePlant.php?plantid=164

 

[8115]

Thanks.

 

[gentlegreen]

Another unlabelled plant in Bath Botanic garden.

For some reason I'm thinking "soapwort" / saponaria.



It had an over-powering perfume - just a bit too much for me to want it in a small garden.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I just can't see that well enough but Phlox?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Anyway, this is what phlox looks like.

 

[gentlegreen]

You could be right, I should have spent more time getting some good close-ups.
The phlox seems to have a tidier habit though - but the plants I saw may well have been past their best ...

THe gardens specialise in lime-loving plants and also plants from the "New World" ..

They borderline honked - like bathroom air-freshener. There's something called "moss phlox" that had the police kicking in an elderly couple's door - suspecting it was a cannabis factory ...

 

[gavman]

my next door neighbour has a lamb factory and a cow factory






although he considers himself a farmer

 

[xes]

I saw a thingy the other day, looked like it was growing on the end of a rose type plant. It looks like a ball of moss, green and red, where a rose would be on the plant. I did take a pic, but I can't upload at home until my internets is back up. Anyone have a clue what it might have been?

 

[gentlegreen]

'tis a gall. An irritation caused by a wasp.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ro...&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=860

 

[Mrs Magpie]

When I was a child we called that a Robin's Pincushion.

 

[xes]

I know those pesky wasps would be behind it

 

[Mrs Magpie]

There are thousands of different kinds of wasps. I love the kind that parasitise aphids.

Sorry, I could only find a corny US video about them.
http://video.nationalgeographic.com...gs-animals/bees-and-wasps/wasp_parasitic.html

 

[xes]

I have to admit that I feel a little violated after watching that.

 

[gentlegreen]

I cycled past this today - some of the leaves towered over me ...

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Bit blurry. Some sort of big petastites? Big leaves are often Gunnera manicata but even with the blurriness I don't think it's Gunnera.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Spelled wrong, but I was right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petasites_japonicus

 

[gentlegreen]

Blimey ! I thought I could recognise butterbur - after discovering a load of young ones the other year and assuming they were some sort of parasitic plant ... didn't recall the leaves being so big and tall...

 

[Mrs Magpie]

It's not a native butterbur though.

 

[gentlegreen]

It's not a native butterbur though.

Oh I see - a garden escape then.

It was in St Catherine's valley - above Bath - I had to wade through mud on the way there, and the valley is generally rather lush - verges were solid with wild garlic back in April...

Had it been Cornwall, doubtless it might have been gunnera ...

 

[gentlegreen]

Amazing how it appeared from nowhere ...



Though this must have been several years earlier ..

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Well, they're summat that dies down in winter.

 

[gentlegreen]

I suppose they aren't much different from cardoons in scale ... I briefly had a gunnera, but I have free-draining soil and no back lane to get barrowloads of muck in ...