Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Let's Play "What is it?" in the Garden

I am blessed (and sometimes cursed) with the many flowers and plants left by the people we bought our house from last year. I am still trying to figure out what some of them are.

These 2 pictures are of a little plant, only a few inches high.  I have a larger one of the same, but it's in the shade and not blooming.  Sorry these pictures are so poor.  The flowers were a deeper pink in real life, and looked better before a really heavy rain.


These yellow flowers must be either perennials or enthusiastic self seeding annuals.  I think I've got a lot more of them now than last year.  The plants are in the 12-16 inch high range, and the blooms are slightly cupped.

This one looks sort of like the four-o'clock pictures in my flower book, but the blooms are open by the time I get up in the late morning.  The size and foliage are very similar to the yellow flowers.

Any guesses?  Next time I get to a garden center, I'll be looking to see if I can recognize them there.

Next time, more tatting, I promise.
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  1. erin1:13 PM

    Hi, Martha! I'll take a poke - I believe you have astilbe, evening primroses, and garden phlox (not to be confused with the earlier blooming creeping phlox).

    Many hugs!

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  2. Corina1:24 PM

    Oh dear, I know some of the plants, but I only know the dutch names, the first is a spirea, and the last is we call flox. But I don't know if that's helpful to you...

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  3. Ladytats12:29 AM

    pretty flowers, sorry, I looked up my first thought on the yellow just to be sure but I was wrong. so I don't know. as for the 4 O'clocks, mine will bloom in the early afternoon as they are on the east side of the house, and if it is cloudy, they think it is early evening.

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  4. Gill Devon7:34 AM

    Don't know about the first 2 pictures but the last one looks like a Phlox. My great aunt who lived in London with a tiny garden used to grow these and I have one in my garden in memory of her

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  5. StringyDogs12:24 PM

    Hi Martha,
    I can't ID your flowers, though they are pretty. I did want to share a link with you. I have found this to be very helpful for me.

    http://www.southeasternflora.com/

    I have found out so many wonderful things there.

    Best of luck! And, I will see you at Tat Days!

    Linda R

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  7. esoraleak; Kaela10:46 AM

    The first photo, the whitish-pink spike flower, is an astilbe. The second yellow one is common evening primrose. The last one is some type of wild phlox; you can tell that it's not dame's rocket because it has five petals and opposite leaf arrangement. Keep them all! They're beautiful!

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  8. Tattycat10:53 AM

    We seem to be in the same boat. I wish I could identify these for you, but I can't. They are very pretty and I'm sure you are enjoying them, as I am my mystery plants!

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  9. Martha3:47 AM

    Thanks for all the help identifying these. Now I can read up on how to take care of them or where to transplant them.

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