Can anyone identify this fast spreading perennial flower?
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Comments (2)Thank you saltcedar for the reply, I have uploaded better quality pictures of the same plants again, in a different post today. Please take a look and see if you can identify them....See MoreCan Anyone Identify This Cute Little Yellow Flower?
Comments (6)Yes, it's coltsfoot. It will spread like dandelions and also through roots. (I brought some home once . . . ) After the blooms have gone, the leaves will appear - sort of a scalloped (sp?) horseshoe shape - hence the name. It was used herbally for coughs, among other things, by early settlers, and I think was brought to this continent by them....See MoreID please Spreading/invasive tall perennial flower-Pics included
Comments (5)I think what I thought was milkweed syriaca (sp) is actually dogbane. I have a growing stand of it way in the back that I've let go for the past two years. It showed up on its own, and if it is dogbane, I'm going to yank it, dig it, destroy it this year. I'm trying to remember what the seed heads looked like, but I'm drawing a blank. I do remember getting the tent caterpillars on them last year, and I've read the dogbanes will get those. So, in answer to your question, that's the only experience I've had with it, and I don't want it to continue. LOL....See MoreCAN ANYONE IDENTIFY THIS?
Comments (13)Thanks buddy. Perhaps I should explain myself, lol! So, I'm a pro horticulturist in a medium-sized city not too far from Green Bay. One of my main areas of responsibility is designing, installing, and maintaining our community's ornamental display beds, planters, etc. I'm always on the lookout for an unusual plant which nevertheless would perform well for us, as an "annual". Our basic program is to create plans in November of the preceding year, put the plant needs out for bids at the local growers, and then whichever company gets our order, they grow the stuff for us and we plant out in late May, when most frost danger is past. So I'm never looking to carry stuff over the winter. That would be hugely cost-prohibitive. So let's say the Russelia could in fact work for us. What we would do would be to place an order for X amount of plants, along with all the other species and cultivars we'd be growing. Then, in late may, outplant and maintain for the summer. Some examples of some fairly unusual "tropical" items I've worked with in the past are: Mexican flame vines, popcorn cassia (getting pretty common now), Pride of Barbados (Caesalpinia), uh...I'm sure I'm forgetting some more. This in addition to all the usual stuff that is actually of tropical origin, but which has been used in the trade so much that nobody thinks of it that way anymore, like Impatiens, cannas, etc. What i would like to do with the Russelia is just try one in my own garden at home and see if I could get decent performance out of it. The key issue with all of this is: How fast do the plants bulk up and how long to go into flowering mode. Probably the best success story we've had so far is the popcorn cassia-Cassia didymobotrya. Those things come out of the greenhouse maybe a foot tall or so, go into bloom almost immediately, and remain in flower all summer long, until freezing weather finally gets them. That's the kind of performance we can use. If something takes forever to get into its most colorful mode, then it's just taking up space that would be better filled by something else. So yeah, why don't we plan on you sending me a test sprig. It's actually warming up nicely already here, but I'm sure we'll be cold again, so maybe another couple of months to play it safe. Thanks much!...See Morecyn427 (z. 7, N. VA)
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