What is this bush/tree/plant?

[Mrs Magpie]

Can't eat it or smoke it...

Fuchsia berries are also edible.

 

[gentlegreen]

Fuchsia berries are also edible.

Somewhat insipid though - but then so is the fruit you buy in the shops ...

 

[Mab]

OK!

Yeah, it is a really rubbish photo, ennit It's backlit atm, and I can't get any other angle without climbing into the neighbour's garden. I'm in a dressing gown atm, so that'd be looking for a quick call to the police.

I'll give it a shot!

Also, obligingly, the cat just climbed in it.

I will now try to get a better picture.

Wow these are gorgeous pictures hes a doll!

 

[Biddlybee]

is this tarragon?

 

[geminisnake]

Have you tried rubbing the leaves to see if they smell??

 

[Biddlybee]

Not yet, I ate one but couldn't tell

 

[gentlegreen]

Looks like it could be. I had a huge tarragon bush once that I never did anything with ...

 

[Maggot]

What is this bird?

 

[Leafster]

What is this bird?

It's a Bullfinch.

 

[Callie]

What is this bird?

its gorgeous! my favourite birdy. was he in your garden?

 

[Maggot]

Thanks Leafster!

its gorgeous! my favourite birdy. was he in your garden?

Yes, he was in my garden with 2 of his mates.

 

[ringo]

what's the proper name of the common palm tree seen around South London?

 

[gentlegreen]

cabbage palm - Cordyline Australis ?

 

[ringo]

cabbage palm - Cordyline Australis ?

Reckon you're right, thanks. I bought a couple of small variegated cordylines at the weekend which are more like phormiums; don't have trunks, but the foliage is similar. They'll be going around the Cordyline Australis with some other small stuff.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Anyone got any ideas what this is please?

Got it for a few quid from the shop down the road - guy in the shop didn't know what it is either! Looks fairly common....I think it grows into a big bush. Just want to find out where to put it....whether it needs full sun or can handle partial shade etc. Cheers

 

[Leafster]

It looks like a Euonymus (pronounced Yewonimus) to me. They come in all shapes, sizes and colours.

Check this out for care and possible identification: http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/searchbynameresults?nm=Euonymus&op=0

 

[Brixton Hatter]

It looks like a Euonymus (pronounced Yewonimus) to me. They come in all shapes, sizes and colours.

Check this out for care and possible identification: http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/searchbynameresults?nm=Euonymus&op=0

brilliant - thank you

 

[gentlegreen]

I wonder if you can make spindles from the ornamental varieties ...

 

[wayward bob]

Anyone got any ideas what this is please?

Got it for a few quid from the shop down the road - guy in the shop didn't know what it is either! Looks fairly common....I think it grows into a big bush. Just want to find out where to put it....whether it needs full sun or can handle partial shade etc. Cheers

looks suspiciously like the bastard thing that grew across from next door. ugly, deep shade, massive summer growth, full of snails, impossible to fucking kill

 

[Brixton Hatter]

looks suspiciously like the bastard thing that grew across from next door. ugly, deep shade, massive summer growth, full of snails, impossible to fucking kill

lol

 

[wayward bob]

plant it if you hate your neighbours or plant it in the bin

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

looks suspiciously like the bastard thing that grew across from next door. ugly, deep shade, massive summer growth, full of snails, impossible to fucking kill

I've "accidentally" stood on half a dozen snails today. They particularly like my Harts Tongue Fern

 

[trashpony]

Reckon you're right, thanks. I bought a couple of small variegated cordylines at the weekend which are more like phormiums; don't have trunks, but the foliage is similar. They'll be going around the Cordyline Australis with some other small stuff.

that'll grow a trunk eventually although the coloured varieties don't seem to be quite as hardy as the green ones

 

[gentlegreen]

I've "accidentally" stood on half a dozen snails today. They particularly like my Harts Tongue Fern

I have a veritable schmorgasborg of "petits gris" in my front garden - they keep gravitating to my recycling boxes so I could possibly arrange for them to marinade themselves ...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I have a veritable schmorgasborg of "petits gris" in my front garden - they keep gravitating to my recycling boxes so I could possibly arrange for them to marinade themselves ...

in beer

 

[gentlegreen]

Seriously though ... I discovered by accident last year when I deliberately put open used jars of yeast extract in the shrubbery so the slugs would clean them out for me, but instead they ended up as traps for an insane number of baby slugs - tiny ones.
It was Essential Vitam-R, but doubtless other varieties might work.

 

[Corax]

Seriously though ... I discovered by accident last year when I deliberately put open used jars of yeast extract in the shrubbery so the slugs would clean them out for me

You did what?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You did what?

Saves on water

 

[gentlegreen]

Vitam-R goes like concrete, and I tend to go with the impulse to get it out of the house, before procrastination kicks in ..

 

[ringo]

that'll grow a trunk eventually although the coloured varieties don't seem to be quite as hardy as the green ones

Yes, that was the plan, two of these (one red, one green) and a Chinese fan palm with smaller yellow grass like plants inbetween. I also finished the other tropical bed at the weekend - two phormiums which should grow pretty big and some hostas, red hot pokers and a few other things planted around them for more colour/height.

Almost lost the red cordyline in the high winds when I planted it and it was yet to establish its roots but its looking better now.