What is this bush/tree/plant?

[contadino]

Any idea what this is?
It's a sizable tree but the flowers and leaves look like wisteria
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Looks like a falso pepe to me. (Schinus molle)

 

[Calamity1971]

Looks like a falso pepe to me. (Schinus molle)

Description says Tiny white flowers for that though.

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[cesare]

Both legume/pea family aren't they? I had to chop down a diseased laburnum for a customer. Apparently you can't even burn the wood because of toxicity.

Yes I tend to admire laburnams and family from safely afar. But they are beautiful.

 

[contadino]

Yes I tend to admire laburnams and family from safely afar. But they are beautiful.

Are your family dangerous?

 

[cesare]

Are your family dangerous?

Most of the people I know can be dangerous. Are your people safe/inert?

 

[campanula]

robinia, BoatieBird. Mostly white flowered but there are some bloody lovely pink flowering pseudoacacias/ locust trees to be had. I very much enjoy the legume family but have zero room for either wisteria or laburnum. I do however, grow the modestly charming indigofera ambleyensiseta,

eta. yep, Calamity1971 got there first.

 

[Calamity1971]

robinia, BoatieBird. Mostly white flowered but there are some bloody lovely pink flowering pseudoacacias/ locust trees to be had. I very much enjoy the legume family but have zero room for either wisteria or laburnum. I do however, grow the modestly charming indigofera ambleyensiseta,

eta. yep, Calamity1971 got there first.

I was looking at the pink one earlier. A mature one for £45. I'm fighting the urge to buy it. I can't really justify it atm. Hmmph.

 

[campanula]

I just bought a pink berried sorbus (pseudohupehensis)., Calamity1971 ..while moaning continually about the incredibly overgrown jungle of an allotment. Trees are...just...lovely...and the pink robinias (Casque Rouge) are a whole lot more well behaved than the plain old white locusts.

 

[Callie]

I think this is a pink Robinia or similar. I call them pea trees because of the flowers. This is in a graveyard near me.

 

[Callie]

I would like to know what this is, which is also pink. It's probably totally unremarkable when not in flower but wow what a show when it is!

 

[prunus]

I would like to know what this is, which is also pink. It's probably totally unremarkable when not in flower but wow what a show when it is!

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That looks very like Manuka, or ‘broom tea tree’.

E2a: you can make yourself some very expensive honey (if it is)

 

[gentlegreen]

That looks very like Manuka, or ‘broom tea tree’.

E2a: you can make yourself some very expensive honey (if it is)

Oh yes so it is :-

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Shame about the woo woo honey ...

 

[Callie]

That looks very like Manuka, or ‘broom tea tree’.

E2a: you can make yourself some very expensive honey (if it is)

Cool thanks! Where can I get some beers?

Hmm that autocorrected from beees but I'm on holiday so it stands

 

[BoatieBird]

I was looking at the pink one earlier. A mature one for £45. I'm fighting the urge to buy it. I can't really justify it atm. Hmmph.

Sorry

 

[Dystopiary]

Oh yes so it is :-

Leptospermum scoparium 'Red Damask' | YouGarden

This Leptospermum Scoparium is a glorious late spring flowering shrub. It is a perfect choice for providing year-round interest in your

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Shame about the woo woo honey ...

I think it's been proven that there's something in the honey health thing. Seem to remember watching a thing with Chris Packham in it... I'm sure it gets falsely touted as a cure for all sorts of ailments though.

 

[clicker]

Should have potted these somewhere weeks ago....but not sure if they can all be put in the same terracotta pot and left outside all year? Or do they need taking in during winter? Or are they not suited to all being in one pot? I've only got one spare pot, but need to liberate them today as the guilt is killing me.
So would one pot be ok?

 

[gentlegreen]

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Should have potted these somewhere weeks ago....but not sure if they can all be put in the same terracotta pot and left outside all year? Or do they need taking in during winter? Or are they not suited to all being in one pot? I've only got one spare pot, but need to liberate them today as the guilt is killing me.
So would one pot be ok?

People routinely crowd them in sinks and on roofs.
Make sure you add plenty of grit to the compost and good drainage.

 

[gentlegreen]

Consolidating is what I'm doing at the moment - trying to get shot of all the little pots that can need watering twice a day...
I generally only need two good specimens - so I can have them front and back - and some of my plants go in singly, but others in groups ... if I feel it's not working, most plants are amenable to being repotted again...

 

[Callie]

What's this then?? I know the tree is a Lime but why does it have bubbly twigs? Is it caused by animal, vegetable or mineral....or fungi? Parasites?

I've seen it on a few different Lime trees, one where I wondered if it was a growth response to being battered by buses going past but this tree in the first two pics had no such abuse

 

[Calamity1971]

What's this then?? I know the tree is a Lime but why does it have bubbly twigs? Is it caused by animal, vegetable or mineral....or fungi? Parasites?

I've seen it on a few different Lime trees, one where I wondered if it was a growth response to being battered by buses going past but this tree in the first two pics had no such abuse

Looks like insect galls?

 

[gentlegreen]

Or scale insects ?
I'll have a look in the park later - I certainly spotted leaf galls on lime leaves this year ...

 

[Callie]

I don't think it's a scale insect but possibly. I don't know! I tried to Google lime tree parasites but didn't really come up with much, same for bubbly lime twigs and similar terms

 

[Callie]

They're really rubbish pics I will try to grab a twig from the tree I saw this morning might be able to reach if I jump!!

 

[Callie]

I can't grab a bit to get a better twig pic but the tree does have scale insects! Calamity1971

 

[gentlegreen]

I looked at several lime trees in the park - small leaved, large and hybrid and just the usual moss, lichen and maybe fungus on the grottier branches.

There were nail galls on several of the trees - I thought I took a photo or two back in the early summer when they were a pretty red colour ..

 

[gentlegreen]

I didn't get a photo - and it would be difficult to capture, but there were loads of harlequin ladybirds on the limes today - mostly in larva form.

 

[two sheds]

Anyone know what this is (lovely white flower with thin fluffy type leaves). I'm impressed with the pink/red flowers in the small plant pot behind it. Don't think I've ever bought an F1 hybrid before because I don't like that you can't collect seeds but this is its second year and doing really well still.

 

[gentlegreen]

cosmos
I bet it could be propagated

 

[Calamity1971]

Anyone know what this is (lovely white flower with thin fluffy type leaves). I'm impressed with the pink/red flowers in the small plant pot behind it. Don't think I've ever bought an F1 hybrid before because I don't like that you can't collect seeds but this is its second year and doing really well still.


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Deffo cosmos.

 

[two sheds]

oo is it? I've tried cosmos before but unsuccessfully. That was actually my second question that I forgot - will the seeds be viable if I've only got one of them? I tried spreading the pollen round a bit between flowers today.