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Old 18-06-2013, 05:23 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Please help identify this plant

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David Hill;985275 Wrote:
On 17/06/2013 07:40, Roger wrote:-
Good morning fellow gardeners.

Could you please help identify this plant I seem to recall I got from
the muppets at Thompsons. I suspect it might be a triffid about to
take over the world. It was meant to be a sweet smelling flowery thing
for a cottage wall, like jasmine I recall. The memory is vague, so is
my knowledge of plants. Anyway it took off like a shot but appears to
be liable to throttle everything in site, but as you can see I have
been lazy anyway in not training the darn thing. The flowers are very,
very small and a complete waste of space. Though the bees absolutely
adore it, but I cant smell anything. You can see it here
'Flowers Photos by abbaservices12 | Photobucket'
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http://tinyurl.com/mqwq5qn)

What have I done, and is it worth keeping if I trim it a little and
get it to behave?

TIA
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Jasminum beesianum


Definitely not jasmine. There's no indication at all of the five regular
petals of the jasmine flower, the leaves are simple and don't have
leaflets like the jasmine.

One of the honeysuckles is far more likely. Not all of them have
noticeable scent.




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kay


Well I think its J beesianum!


So do I. Jb is a dismal little runty plant IMO, nothing like the
voluptuous white and cream flowered jasmines. Even its foliage is
boring.

It was one of the first plants I ever bought when I started gardening
and ranks high on the list of nominees for "never again, waste of space,
what a disappointment", etc.

Janet