Plant IDs please

[cristalfiona]

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.

[cristalfiona]

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

[Guest]

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)

[roitelet]

Pear, Honeysuckle, possibly flowering cherry, currant, currant,ragwort, Willow herb. Get rid of the last two they are weeds.

[veggiechicken]

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

[Thelma Sanders]

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

[cristalfiona]

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.

[Angeldon]

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

[Thelma Sanders]

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

[cristalfiona]

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.

[Martin H]

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.

[fishpond]

3 is not a Peony--agree with Clematis
Sure that 1 is not a Pear--leaves are not elongated.

[veggiechicken]

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.

[Guest]

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 )

[cristalfiona]

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.