Identification Area

I agree that it looks like chickweed. There is no problem in pulling it out by hand but tell him to do it fairly soon before it flowers. The flowers set seed very quickly. The seed is a favourite of baby birds - probably why it is called chickweed.

"Cyrtostachys renda" is correct...Well done Kedi-Gato !!!

No, woo, don't think it's a Euc.pete, yes, the lemons and oranges/tangerines/nesperas/plums/apples/whatever are on irrigation .... it suddenly sprung up this Spring, without human help me thinks. He (the neighbour) did put in grape vines in the Autumn which was a novelty over the stone...

royster, it will be great when mine grow like LoLs, hopefully i will get flowers on mine this year depnding on how it grows i suppose. those yellow thingies are slow release feeders some have worked yet some have failed the lot came out of them on 4 must of chopped too much off the top, bought...

Hi Palustris, thanks but no, it is not Nepeta subsessilis. I did go through various links under this name and although the flowers look familiar, the leaves are different. It is definitly what PeterS said.

Hi Stu and a warm welcome from me too.I agree with the others about it being a Catalpa. Our kids have one in their garden, it's about 18 years old and quite large already. It gives wonderful shade so it might be nice to eventually build a table around it.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalpa

Agreed! That's what made me uncertain - they look like single leaves, too, not several coming from a central stalk. Very sambucus-like, though, so I'll try to follow that up...Bis morgen! Tschuss!

Sorry Kandy........but was absent last week. It's funny how a common plant sometimes passes you by. I have just noticed in Laurie's pic at the top of this page.....in the background...Lysmachia :D

Thanks for that, Blackthorn. A friend, alas, now living in France said that she thought it was a Himalayan Honeysuckle, which I believe is the same thing, when it was a tiny thing and I don't even know how it got where it was.Another friend said it was a "big weed", next-door said "too pretty...

Liz - I think you must be right. Though its not one I have seen before, and am still bemused. The bend in the flower itself is very much a Salvia trait. The red stems should be a strong clue. I haven't seen red stems on a Salvia before, but some blue flowered ones such as S. farinacea 'Victoria'...

Pete and Goggs, re the Solanum, I agree that it is not Quitoense as it has no spines on the surface as mine does, it could be S Pyracanthos although the spines on mine are more purple than the orange in the pic, perhaps it will change colour as it grows, by the way it has had two blue flowers....

My dad has this...Clematis 'General Sikorski'

I've had good nights out like that as well!TO

The first picture looks to be either Acer platanoides Crimson Queen or Crimson King.The second photo seems to be of one of the Laburnums. David.

They can stand it on my window ledge in the direct sun, doesn't faze them at all, now I know why :D

Very good liz, can't go wrong at that price

Hi Laurie if you Google the name then a picture of the plant in flower comes up first on the list

Bobj 's plant is Senecio. A nice variety is 'sunshine': http://www.english-country-garden.com/flowers/senecio.htm

Well by elimination - its not mountain ash cause it doesn't have the leaf serrations. Its definitely not beech or elm. Have just looked at a young ash down the garden and that does look like yours. On mine all the leaves have 4 pairs of leaflets with one at the end. Keble Martin draws his like...

Yes, I think so too Blackthorn. I'll post a pic when we get it moved in the autumn.