Identification Area

It's a pretyy shrub. Soo called as pheasant's like the berries. If you live rural you will get pheasants. I do

Remove them IMMEDIATELY, they can gain a hold quickly and put down strong roots.

Thanks guys!does anyone have any recs for a tree to fit our needs?

Hmmm. Looks like some sort of fungus but your description of "felt-like" is puzzling. Is there much of it? You could try giving the area a good scarifying to break it up. That should certainly do no harm and you can always go thermonuclear later....

Aphids I'd say.just a normal insecticide spray should sort them out.

Hi folks. Well, I was down the garden centre today, and they were actually selling it there too !

Thanks Peter, I have overwintered them in my greenhouse and they have continued to grow and are now in flower. Some of my other ones did look as though they had died but are now starting to come back to life :gnthb: Which I am very pleased about.

I agree, bit of a strange question, or series of questions Helen.Could you elaborate a bit further as to what your actually wanting to know.I would say that all those plants can be found throughout the UK.And as all grass is more or less wind pollinated, the pollen goes a very long way.

Hi Lollipop sounds just like me,well said:thumb: I just love it:cl-p:

It's opened fully with the sun-what a beauty, thanks guys.

Definitely Helleborus, probably niger.

That was quick! Thanks Aesculus and Pete.

Amazing that it rooted though and started growing again. Does look very odd however!

It`s not strange at all, it`s just growing as a wall shrub. As it gets older its habit will change.:thumb:

Whilst yes if you have them in pots then you have them in the ground, the good news is that they tend to eat n a straight line so do not mormally totally destroy a plants root system as they do in a pot where they go round and round. Secondly there is not need to bin the plant, only the...

Oleander? While we were in Cyprus recently, I noticed for the first time that there were such seeds in the long pods of Oleander.

yep it's Saxifraga x urbium London Pride one of my favourite ground cover plants very dainty looking with there tiny pink sprigs of flowers. at college they have a gorgeous lightly yellowed varigated version =]

Yes, the last one is definitely Leycesteria formosa , also called Himalayan Honeysuckle. I grows like a weed but is easy to control although it will self-seed where you don't want it. I like it though!:thmb:

Kristen you are a STAR!! That is the plant ..... Last year I posted some pics of this plant in the summer when it is huge!!! And no-one recognised it as Fuki, or bog rhubarb .... Japanese. It is edible (the stems that is) ... but can cause liver damage! So NO crumble!! We have it...

Only one way to find out. Plant it and see what happens.