Identification Area

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:

I sat in the garden yesterday and watched a bee going in and out of these 'trumpets' for about an hour - heavy smoker do you reckon?? :hehe:

Be very careful it could be nightshade.

You beat me to it Blackthorn. :D

Splendid Cannas Roders (and Vicky). I'll be interested to see how they do over winter.

Oh thankyou Dai. I've just googled it and realise it's the thing I keep trying to dig up from everywhere, without any success. Just seen it's got an order of merit - so perhaps I should flog the berries and make my fortune !!

I found this fairly large toadstool on Sunday. It was about 16 - 17 cm across. Who can ID it please?

Looking again at the pic of Plant D, I think that I got it wrong with honeysuckle and that seedstotal is spot on with hypericum. Claire, please stop doing yourself down with your id-ing of plants, you get them right quite a lot, at least as good (and bad) as the rest of us on here. :gnthb: Laura

Just to add to that - it is only an annual Fairly easily grown from seed but needs a bit of heat to get going Great for that 'Tropical garden' look

Excellent site. I hate killing things just 'cause they're on the plants. Nice to have some positive I.D.'s