Overwhelmed by inherited garden
belleduggan
9 years ago
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New Homeowner - IDing inherited Garden
Comments (8)Plant 1 - Rose? Climbing? Agree - Plant 2 - Hydrangea - type of? Yes, and agree with Macrophylla. Plant 3 - Impossible to say at this stage. Re-post once it's got foliage and/or flowers.. Plants 4,5,6 - Yes, dusty miller & flowering vinca. I don't see any impatiens in the photo. Plant 7 - unknown / evergreen. Definitely Boxwood Plant 8 unknown / kept leaves over winter-rust colored. Azalea Plant 9 unknown / evergreen. Azalea - looks like it's got insect damage. Plant 10 unknown / evergreen. Azalea Plant 11 unknown / evergreen Yes, Euonymus Various Herbs: agree with sage, rosemary & mint. Don't know what the one in back is, but it looks familiar. The "various herbs? Groundcover" is English ivy. You'll probably want to remove that. Yes, last one looks like sage....See MoreUK Inherited an old overgrown rose garden
Comments (55)For sericia, next spring watch the color of the thorns; sericia ptericantha and R. pteragonis are two possibles. Then spend some time looking at many, many pictures of R. canina. In your part of the world it's a widely used rootstock and I'd guess that four or five of yours are slightly different caninas. (This fall they'll have good hips for making jelly). Something else to remember: the garden doubtless now has more shade than when it was first planted. This sort of situation may reduce or totally stifle rebloom, so when you label a rose a once bloomer, just remember that with more sun it might be a repeater....See MoreInherited Garden: Laurus nobilis issues
Comments (2)Welcome, Rich. Your bay has scale which secretes a sticky substance called honeydew. That's what the mould grows on. Scale is hard to eradicate even with poisons and personally I wouldn't bother. The problem may be much less next year. You can see it as small bumps on the stems which will scrape off with a finger nail. The leaves are perfectly safe to cook with if you wash them thoroughly. BTW 7ft is by no means mature height for a bay. It can get to 30 feet but will cope with heavy trimming. This is my neighbours bay....See MoreInherited Garden
Comments (1)I recommend that you post the pictures of your unknowns in the Name That Plant forum here on Gardenweb - those people can identify anything! You may get some care advice there when they're identified, or you can go to the Shrubs forum, once you get a name. They're going to need a closer picture of the leaves, probably. Good luck with your inherited garden! Sometimes they're the best kind, as you find some treasures as you go....See Morebelleduggan
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