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    Plant IDs please

    Hi everyone,

    The previous owner of my house has left various things growing up walls and trellises and in pots and as this is the first time I've ever had a garden I have no idea what any of them are! I was wondering if you guys would be able to help me?

    My Mum thinks that the blossoms are a peach tree, but that's the extent of our knowledge.

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    It wouldn't let me put them all in one post, so here are the last 2:

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    • #3
      My guesses are:-

      1. Pear (for the amount of blossom but with open leaves that would seem more likely for me)
      2. Honeysuckle
      3. ?
      4. Currant of some sort
      5. Currant again
      6. Something weedy I have never bothered to learn the name of
      7. Willow bay herb (weed to most people)

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      • #4
        Pear, Honeysuckle, possibly flowering cherry, currant, currant,ragwort, Willow herb. Get rid of the last two they are weeds.
        Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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        • #5
          Agree with NG.
          3 makes me think of paeony?
          4 looks like red/white currant. Look for little drooping clusters of green flowers.
          5 Looks like blackcurrant. Rub the leaves - see if they have a blackcurranty/strong smell

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          • #6
            3 could be an anemone, the buds certainly look like one.

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            • #7
              Thanks for all the replies so far guys, there seems to be a consensus on most things.

              There is only one currant plant - forgot to mention pics 4 &5 were the same one, I was trying to get a close up of the little green flowers and one more of the whole of the plant. One less thing I have to buy so that's good.

              The weeds will be going this weekend then. Also discovered when I moved all the junk out the way that strawberry runners are taking over in that area too! Typically after I went out and bought 12 plants lol.

              Anyone in the Preston area want to come and collect approx 50 strawberry runners growing out of my gravel? Seems a shame for them to go to waste but they're right in the only place I can put my blowaway greenhouse and I've not got space to keep them all, though a few might get rescued. I suppose I could always pot and freecycle them...

              No. 3 is a climbing plant if that helps? It's about 6ft and going up a wigwam of canes in a pot at the moment. I'll have to see if I can get a better picture.

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              • #8
                If 3 is a climber it could be Clematis Montana - it's about the right time for flowering.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Angeldon View Post
                  If 3 is a climber it could be Clematis Montana - it's about the right time for flowering.
                  I agree, didn't know it was a climber, did we lol

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Thelma Sanders View Post
                    I agree, didn't know it was a climber, did we lol
                    Sorry, my bad forgetting to put all the information in the first post. Looking at google images for those I think you might be right (rubens type). In that case it will be coming down so I can grow squash in that space . No place in my small garden for giant pots that don't hold fruit/veg producing plants.

                    I am tempted to keep the honeysuckle though, as I always loved it as a child. I think there might be a second one of those on the trellis under the pear tree as well.

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                    • #11
                      Haven't you got a tree somewhere that you can plant the Clematis under? It's a lovely plant (although a bit of a thug in the wrong place). I've grown it up an old willow tree, up a conifer, up a hawthorn, it was quite happy scrambling up all three. Bung it in the ground and forget about it until you get those lovely flowers in May each year.
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                      • #12
                        3 is not a Peony--agree with Clematis
                        Sure that 1 is not a Pear--leaves are not elongated.
                        Feed the soil, not the plants.
                        (helps if you have cluckies)

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by fishpond View Post
                          3 is not a Peony--agree with Clematis
                          Sure that 1 is not a Pear--leaves are not elongated.
                          If I'd known it was a climber, I'd have said clematis too
                          If it has to be moved plant it alongside the honeysuckle where they can scramble together. I have a jasmine, honeysuckle and clematis mix.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by fishpond View Post
                            3 is not a Peony--agree with Clematis
                            Sure that 1 is not a Pear--leaves are not elongated.
                            It seems a pear to me It is further on than mine at the mo. but I have attached a piccy of mine from last year for comparison (although it is a bit further on than cristal's )

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                            • #15
                              Hmm, the main reason I want to get rid of it is because it's huge and really top heavy, even in a light wind it keeps falling over and nearly took out my garage door at the weekend. I might look into either pruning it back a bit or taking a cutting and trying it in a smaller pot for now. Although if it likes shade then it could go by the trellis honeysuckle, which only gets a couple of hours sun each day.

                              Norfolkgrey, looking at your picture I'm now not sure if mine is a pear. Although the blossoms look the same, the leaves on mine are a much paler green, and almost furry, as opposed to yours being dark green and shiny. I'm not sure if they would change, or if it just means it's a different variety though.

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