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Posted: Mar/18/2008 12:17 PM PST
We just bought a house! Someone was rather proud of the yard at one point, but it has become a jungle. I have more mysterious plants, but I forgot to take pictures. One of them is a tuber or rhizome (I always get them mixed up) and the leaves grow up in a fan-shape. They are a dark sea-foam green. They haven't sprouted flower stems yet, but they are all over the yard. What do you suppose it is? Man, sorry about the huge pictures. In the pic with the wavy limbed tree, what is the tree? I have a few of those. Attachments:      |
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Posted: Mar/18/2008 2:46 PM PST
I think number one might be an azalea but I am not real familiar with them. The third one (the curly one) looks like a curly willow but I will need to see leaves to confirm that. The other two I am not sure. You are lot warmer than I am so you have different perennials availabe to you. Sorry I can't be more help than that. |
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Posted: Mar/18/2008 6:02 PM PST
Can't put a name to all of them, but the first one does look like Azalea. The third pix - the larger trunk is a Crepe Myrtle and will bloom this summer. You do have some nice plants. Just take a year before deciding what to do with your inherited landscaping. Your neighbors and a nursery can tell you what is in your yard. Some nurseries will come out and give you some answers. Or if you have a county extension office the county agent might come visit you for a tour of your yard. Welcome Linda B from SC |
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Posted: Mar/20/2008 7:36 AM PST
That first one might be an azalea, but in my experience azaleas have more pointy leaves. I think it's just as likely a laurel of some kind. In either case, it's going to bloom pretty soon, and then you can make a more informed judgment. |
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Posted: Mar/20/2008 9:31 AM PST
I think the first with just leaves is a rhodie. The second, which I am assuming is a seperate plant might be an azalea. |
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Posted: Mar/21/2008 4:06 PM PST
I agree with curly willow for the curly branches, and if so it will have leaves that are 4x longer than wide (not really big tho'). There is a curly hazelnut too (google contorted filbert or Harry Lauder's Walking Stick--saw one just today in Nashville that had catkins but the leaves were just barely budding out). The second to last photo--a great many fruit trees have flowers just like that. Is it a tree that has a tear-drop shape to the main portion? That would likely be a Bradford pear. If the branches all seem to head straight up it would be a fruiting pear. Apples and plums and sweet cherries also have blooms like that, as well. The last shot looks like that variegated bush that is really popular....Next time your at a Wally-World check in the nursery I think they sell these. (Starts with an "Eu"....something. |
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Posted: Mar/21/2008 4:11 PM PST
I wonder if your fan-shaped leaves peppering the yard are daffodils. They also sound like daylilies, but I am not sure how big they are or if they are even up now where you live. (I am still buried with snow so I have NO perspective!) You will know soon I am sure. If you posted a picture I am sure somebody would know. |
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Posted: Mar/22/2008 3:18 PM PST
The tubers are probably iris....Went for a walk in the yard just now and spied mine coming up--the leaves are all like huge blades of grass, arranged in a fan shape, and sea foam green as you said. They bloom in early summer. The yellow and green bush is 'euonymous' (Was grocery-shopping at Wally-world today and checked). |
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Posted: Mar/22/2008 4:27 PM PST
 In other words......its snowing here 
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Posted: Apr/02/2008 6:50 PM PST
Hey, thanks everyone for your help! The white flowered tree isn't really teardrop shaped at the base...it has 2 or 3 main branches and it's *huge*. |
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