Multiple identifications!

For ease I'll number the following pics so that I don't get confused with any replies (I can assure you it wont take much!)

1. Located in my back garden - is this a different coloured fuscia to the bright pink variety in my front garden?


2. There's one of these in my front garden and for reasons best known to the previous owner one in the middle of the lawn in the back garden!



3. This is located in the back garden at the back of the green house.



4. This is also in the back garden


part 2 to follow

 

5. This is in the front garden underneath the fuscia


6. Is this a weed or is it something that will produce something entertaining in time? It's located in my front garden


7. This little bush thing (technical terms )has already been hacked back to soil level once as we thought it was hiding a vent where ants were getting into the house but it's not.



8. This plant is located in the front garden and is planted infront of some form of tall grass which seems to have no problems in growing rapidly!


Many thanks for your help!

 

Hi Debbie. Boy oh boy. Do we ever need a panel?

1. A fuchsia expert will no doubt identify it. (It's probably different from your other one.)

2. Looks like a flag iris. Purple, yellow? No idea till it flowers.

3. Think it's a weed.

4. Someone will know.

5. A geranium. No, not a pelargonium. Good ground cover but can be invasive.

6. A weed.

7. Someone will know.

8. Looks like a hosta.

I may be right on a couple.

 

hi
is no. 8 a plant that begins with a 'c'. no, i'm not being funny, just that i have 2 of these (think they're the same) in my garden & i've only just found out what they are from a book. unfortunately i put the name down on my laptop, not this pc so can't llok up just now. it does begin with a 'c' though & produces red/pink flowers on spikes. it is grown from a corm. how clever does that sound??!! only know cos of what i've found out this year & yes, it does spread easily.
however i could be wrong, probably, & john will know alot better than me!
john, about no. 5. i thought i was learning & that a pelargonium was the same as geranium. isn't it? if not then i don't think i can even learn from books!! please help.
regards
sandra

 

Sandra, everybody calls pelargoniums, geraniums because they are of the same family. The pelargonium is the Mediterranean looking one that you grow in nice terracotta pots and put under glass in the winter. This type of geranium is grown in the ground and is brilliant for ground cover. It's usually pink or purple, and you couldn't kill it with an Alaskan winter.

There are over 200 types of hosta so it could still be one of a type that begins with C. If you do find it then let us in on it. After all I'm only guessing. I've no doubt a real guru will come in and say 'No, they are all dandelions.' :D

 

Here's my thoughts!
1 Fuchsia possibly Lena as it is the right colour and it is marginally hardy.
2 Iris?
3 Tamarisk
4 Weigela
5 perennial Geranium
6 Heuchera
7 ?could be buddleia alternifolia but not happy with that...
8 Bergenia

 

I think 7 is a Hypericum apart from that Liz I think you`ve nailed it. David.

 

Agree with most of what Liz says, except 7 - think it's the spiraea that has the plumes of white flowers in early spring, think that's prunifolia, or bridal wreath. And 6 - don't think it's a heuchera.

3 - agreed, is definitely tamarisk, not a weed!

Think the "grass" with the bergenia under it, in number 8, could be the day lily, hemerocallis.

 

1.Fuchsia Magellanica Alba , Hardy .

 

Oooh thank you very much

I will have to start googling all these names to find out about them all.

Never thought I'd be interested in gardening! Amazing what being dumped in the deep end does for you! I've even put gardening books on my wish list - Mum will fall over in shock!

 

Couple more that I missed:

9. Seems to be doing quite well and has taken over a corner of a border



10.
This is surrounded by the above plant and I suspect will be taken over by the above plant if I don't do something about it sooner rather than later.

 

Willo. 9 looks like London Pride (saxifraga ) and 10 looks like Dianthus. David.

 

Thank you muchly David

It's so much easier looking for plants when you have a name for them!

 

Dendro, we are both wrong, number 7 is Exochorda "The Bride". David.

 

I've been losing sleep about number 7.
It's definitely not Exochorda though.