Identification Area

Now that's what I call quick! Thanks very much for identifying them for me. Just phoned my dad and told him what you said, and he is making up labels for them both. Alan

Hi Steph could be Osteospermum (Cape Daisy)

That looks pot-bound to me. The roots are probably getting too moist. Succulents need very sharp drainage - re-pot it in a bigger pot, with sandy or gritty compost and lots of bits of crock at the bottom I would say. I'm not an expert on succulents though, so if someone else comes along and...

Thanks. I'll pull the little buggers off soon

Aesculus, I thought you`d pick up on it.:hehe::hehe::gnthb:

I hope it's ok to reopen an old thread but am here with update and questions.I kept the tree Liriodendron chinense and had it heavily cut back at the same time as they removed the leylandii. It's much wider now and heading straight for the telephone wires again so I guess it needs cutting...

I gotta know.. DO THEY WAG THEIR TAILS :rotfl:

Your plant is Pilea Peperomiodes, very peperomia like.

Hello lindyco. Your flower is a Celosia cristata, the Crested Cockscomb also known as Brain Celosia or Wool Flowers. They are not as common as the Celosia plumosa, Prince of Wales Feathers. Yours appears to be the original tall variety which florists would use. I have the dwarf variety in...

1. Eucalyptus 2. Purple leaf plum (?) 3. White willowAny recent photos of the trees in leaf would be a vast help to verify ID.

Thanks for the replies! I tried to save and dry out some seeds which I planted, only about four have germinated two weeks later but I think I may have been a bit premature in taking them from the plant. Hopefully they'll self seed because they'd look better in a larger clump. Thanks again.

Do I know you? I think I do. :dh:Thanks, can you give some tips on taking hardwood cuttings, I've never done it before? :o7&8 are the same plant btw. :lollol:

Nigel they can be grown quite easily from seed.

I have just seen this belatedly, I have Colutea A. Copper Beauty and has had a second flush recently, there a seed pods all over it.

Wyrmat don't be put off Daturas by all the comments there are some beautiful cultivars out there, it's a bit like convolvulus you wouldn't plant that but would probably be knocked out by some of the morning glory specimens that are grown,and yes it is poisonous but so are 90% of the plants in...

Physalis peruviana is the one that I know, delicious sweet berries in their own paper wrap!.. wait til they drop off before you eat them!

I'm sorry, Kaytee, but my broadband service was playing me up and I couldn't see any images at all. It wasn't anything you'd done, or not done, at all. The small yellow flower in the first photo look to me like Tormentil, a lovely wild flower of acidic moorland conditions.

Thanks - that looks like it (I haven't seen the flowers / fruits yet). I have no neighbours at that end of the garden (road then railway) so I'll have a snoop around to find the parent. In the meantime I'll try cooking the shoots - sounds like fun! Thanks again Robert

Nathan, please be aware that all parts of the thorn apple are poisonous. With your other plant and as it is a member of the solanum family of plants, they are sometimes known as climbers, but this is because they often need tying in to a support.

I have a number of C. poscharyskyana in pots and containers around the garden. They are just coming to the end of their first flowering period and may come again once I've dead headed them this coming week. If they do self seed, I can think of a whole lot worse to have growing in my garden.:lollol: