Identification Area

That pic's nothing like what you PMd to me, JJ! Or maybe I just saw the extra plant! So you can definitely rule out any form of acer - it's nothing like that!Do you know if the plant has significant flowers and/or berries?The leaves are the right shape for one of the cotoneasters, but...

Not a lot, not too worried though as the colour on opening is glorious, that deep velvety red; I was just a little annoyed that it does not live up to its name as yet. Cheers MIKE

Osmanthus heterophyllus - (all O. spp., in fact) - "The flowers are usually followed by ovoid, blue-black fruit." (Source: RHS A-Z Encyclopaedia of Garden Plants).You could be right!

Telopea no chance with me, protea limited sucsess, pulcherimma no chance, sesbania OK for first year then death, the other two I haven't tried.

Thanks very much both - I do like to know what everything is (and it's nicer to be able to talk to them by name)

It's in the Site Feedback and Information under How to .........Then repost the question with pic into the Identification Area.

Your most welcome,mine are just starting to flower,I put up a couple of photos on my spring thread

Thanks Pualstris, I will. Going on my client's garden you're very right, it was everywhere. I like to have some native wildflowers in my garden, but I'll be keeping an eye on it! Cheers x

Pyracantha, the flowers are in small bunches down the stems.Hawthorn, tend to be in bigger bunches, what do you think?

Anybody recognise this little beauty? I have lost the name :(

Hi Liz, yes, it definately looks like it, thanks again x

Looks like Red Clover (Trifolium pratense). It's a wild, native species, but as Palustris says, it's used as a green manure crop. Famers where I come from used to turn animals out into the fields quite often, too, before ploughing it in. Rather strong, woody stems though, so it can be a bit of a...

Thanks Celia,i shall def take some cuttings.

Hi, all - just found this thread! Looks to me like a sawfly - there are several which have wasp-like colouring, and the fact that a number of pupae were found in one place would tally with that. I'm pretty sure it's not a true wasp, and the only other similar insects I can find are a couple of...

Just the sort of thing I do, K-G! :D

The top one looks like on of the tree heathers Erica arborea. The middle one is not a fern, but rather a New Zealand plant called Acaena. It is probably A. microphylla, but since there are a 100 species and a fair number of hybrids it is hard to be positive. The seed heads are awful things, they...

A very pretty, healthy looking plant. It definately looks similar to Christmas Cactus, but like Mel says, the leaves are wrong. Unfamiliar with Epiphyllum, are they related? My Mum has a couple of outstanding Christmas Cactus and when they've finished flowering will move them to another room in...

PW check out my reply to you topic post 'seeds of shamroc' Wed 2nd May.

Thank you glenw, A monkey flower it is.