Need help identifying these plants in my garden (Draft Thread)

Ragworth (I think) - Type of weed (Also I think :p)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragwort

 

Hi Earthman, there is no doubt your garden was once somebodies pride and joy. Do you have a neighbour who has a nice garden. Its worth asking if he/she would mind coming and having a look at yours and seeing if they can give you any guidelines to follow, prunning etc. I'm sure they would be quite flattered you asked their advice. Good luck!!!:thumb: 02

 

Leaves look like a viburnum to me?





Some sort of fern (haha - very helpful!)



That's a sedum - until it flowers, hard to tell the type.



and that's an Iris

 

Thank you so much people, for your help in identifying some of these plants. There are quite many and some unflowered at the moment. I will try and keep and eye on these and post them when they flower, if it helps in identifying.

I'm still undecided what to do with all these plants. I do want a bit of a lawn, but which ones to keep?:D In an ideal world I'd like to keep the ones that use the least nutrients, but look beautiful and aren't so huge. The garden's big, but it's certainly a jungle (packed!) Plus, I've seen quite a bit of wildlife in this garden.

Bees love the top of the palm tree, they also love this plant:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/2483658980_caa9157c55_b.jpg

It flowers purple, and the plant spans a lot of the wall on my left as I enter the garden. There's lots of these flowers hanging.

Plus, I saw an exotic, small bird like a humming bird feeding/taking from the flowers of this bush, recently:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2331/2483602072_f61ec5cc11_b.jpg

And I've seen one occasion a small bird jumping from (branch? to branch) on this plant:

 

Earthman, it might have been better if you'd just given us, say 5 at a time, I think things are going to get very jumbled up this way.

BTW, where are you, some of this stuff looks very advanced to me, for this time of the year.

That tree above looks like a Rhus
The iris has a Melianthus Major behind it.

 

Yeah, sorry Pete, should of thought of that. I'm in London, it's been quite hot the past week. You're in Kent, I imagine it's been the same there.

 

Yep things are moving fast now.

 

Hey Pete, although I've posted all these photos at the same time, I hope people still have a browse though them all, fingers crossed.

Btw, I've just read wiki and it seems a lot of these plants I have are quite poisonous! Then again, I'm not the kid I was years ago that ate laburnum, unknowingly. Not a great experience, I can asure you!

 

Loads of stuff is poisonous, so dont expect to only grow non-poisonous plants, your garden would be very boring.
I agree with Glen on most.

 

Thanks again Pete and to you Glen. Let us know if you recognise any others please. Gonna read my new RHS Encyclopedia on Gardening now, see if I can identify any of the other plants I have.

 

Can you post the ones you dont know, again, give each pic a number, that way we can reply and just quote the number.

 

I've just remembered my aunt saying something about clematis, and I think the following is:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3151/2483559714_2e6f1209a3_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3293/2482738069_4499df9716_b.jpg

 

I'll take your idea Pete, and sort it tomorrow.

 

They are clematis, although I dont know which one.

 

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