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Hi all - I have a small bush/tree in the garden I bought house last year and now for 2 seasons I have yet to see it flower or do something. June time it has loads of the buds shown in image but again as last year they have all but one vanished, either I have incredibly intelligent wildlife or my neighbours are pinching them, if it's wildlife I can start to protect them but I am unsure. The buds are firmly attached to the branches so I woudn't have thought they would fall off, they are about 2 inches long.
I have no idea what the tree/shrub/bush is (I am new to gardening since buying my house which has a very estabilished garden) so any help would be great. I have uploaded an image for you to view. http://img124.imageshack.us/i/0001140.jpg/ Thanks in advance |
please help identify
On 30 July, 19:27, bluebelly
wrote: Hi all - I have a small bush/tree in the garden I bought house last year and now for 2 seasons I have yet to see it flower or do something. June time it has loads of the buds shown in image but again as last year they have all but one vanished, either I have incredibly intelligent wildlife or my neighbours are pinching them, if it's wildlife I can start to protect them but I am unsure. The buds are firmly attached to the branches so I woudn't have thought they would fall off, they are about 2 inches long. I have no idea what the tree/shrub/bush is (I am new to gardening since buying my house which has a very estabilished garden) so any help would be great. I have uploaded an image for you to view. http://tinyurl.com/ml6y6t Thanks in advance -- bluebelly My first thought is that it is a Loquat http://www.kew.org/ksheets/loquats.html This answers why the buds fall off. My 2 bushes have yet to show a flower bud. David Hill |
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"bluebelly" wrote in message ... Hi all - I have a small bush/tree in the garden I bought house last year and now for 2 seasons I have yet to see it flower or do something. June time it has loads of the buds shown in image but again as last year they have all but one vanished, either I have incredibly intelligent wildlife or my neighbours are pinching them, if it's wildlife I can start to protect them but I am unsure. The buds are firmly attached to the branches so I woudn't have thought they would fall off, they are about 2 inches long. I have no idea what the tree/shrub/bush is (I am new to gardening since buying my house which has a very estabilished garden) so any help would be great. I have uploaded an image for you to view. http://tinyurl.com/ml6y6t Thanks in advance -- bluebelly I think it may be a Magnolia grandiflora, or a Magnolia of some kind. M. grandifloras, though, often have year-round sporadic flowering, rather than a seasonal flush, which means you don't notice it flowering unless you look carefully - not at all like the M. soulangeana or M. stellata types, which are all too obviously in flower :~). Spider |
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"Spider" wrote in message ... "bluebelly" wrote in message ... Hi all - I have a small bush/tree in the garden I bought house last year and now for 2 seasons I have yet to see it flower or do something. June time it has loads of the buds shown in image but again as last year they have all but one vanished, either I have incredibly intelligent wildlife or my neighbours are pinching them, if it's wildlife I can start to protect them but I am unsure. The buds are firmly attached to the branches so I woudn't have thought they would fall off, they are about 2 inches long. I have no idea what the tree/shrub/bush is (I am new to gardening since buying my house which has a very estabilished garden) so any help would be great. I have uploaded an image for you to view. http://tinyurl.com/ml6y6t Thanks in advance -- bluebelly I think it may be a Magnolia grandiflora, or a Magnolia of some kind. M. grandifloras, though, often have year-round sporadic flowering, rather than a seasonal flush, which means you don't notice it flowering unless you look carefully - not at all like the M. soulangeana or M. stellata types, which are all too obviously in flower :~). Spider It certainly looks like a Magnolia or Liriodendron. someone |
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"Dave Hill" wrote in message ... On 30 July, 19:27, bluebelly wrote: snip My first thought is that it is a Loquat http://www.kew.org/ksheets/loquats.html This answers why the buds fall off. My 2 bushes have yet to show a flower bud. David Hill It's not a loquat. I have a loquat tree growing from a seed I planted in 1990 and it has grown into a nice small tree overlooking my pond. 2006 was an extremely hot summer and the tree produced lots of heads of flowers in late November (!). Spring 2007 was quite wet, if I recall, and the flowers were still on there, although looking sad. In the autumn of 2007 I had one (1) loquat fruit, which I cut in half and shared with my partner. It tasted just like a loquat :-). Since then, nothing. It seems to need a really hot period and a quite cold period to produce fruit. The flower heads are delightful, with a wonderful perfume. Twenty years of growing, with only one fruit, not sure I can make a living out of this species. someone |
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On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:05:10 +0100, "someone"
wrote: "Spider" wrote in message ... "bluebelly" wrote in message ... Hi all - I have a small bush/tree in the garden I bought house last year and now for 2 seasons I have yet to see it flower or do something. June time it has loads of the buds shown in image but again as last year they have all but one vanished, either I have incredibly intelligent wildlife or my neighbours are pinching them, if it's wildlife I can start to protect them but I am unsure. The buds are firmly attached to the branches so I woudn't have thought they would fall off, they are about 2 inches long. I have no idea what the tree/shrub/bush is (I am new to gardening since buying my house which has a very estabilished garden) so any help would be great. I have uploaded an image for you to view. http://tinyurl.com/ml6y6t Thanks in advance -- bluebelly I think it may be a Magnolia grandiflora, or a Magnolia of some kind. M. grandifloras, though, often have year-round sporadic flowering, rather than a seasonal flush, which means you don't notice it flowering unless you look carefully - not at all like the M. soulangeana or M. stellata types, which are all too obviously in flower :~). Spider It certainly looks like a Magnolia or Liriodendron. Definitely not liriodendron. Pam in Bristol |
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On 2009-07-30 19:27:23 +0100, bluebelly
said: Hi all - I have a small bush/tree in the garden I bought house last year and now for 2 seasons I have yet to see it flower or do something. June time it has loads of the buds shown in image but again as last year they have all but one vanished, either I have incredibly intelligent wildlife or my neighbours are pinching them, if it's wildlife I can start to protect them but I am unsure. The buds are firmly attached to the branches so I woudn't have thought they would fall off, they are about 2 inches long. I have no idea what the tree/shrub/bush is (I am new to gardening since buying my house which has a very estabilished garden) so any help would be great. I have uploaded an image for you to view. http://tinyurl.com/ml6y6t Thanks in advance I don't think those are buds. I think they're the seed heads of a Magnolia of some sort. Is it possible that you just don't see it flowering because it's out of sight of the house or because of your work hours (starting early, finishing late) etc? If you can keep a close look out next spring for buds, which are usually smooth and conical in shape, you might be able to take a photo which would ID the plant. I'm wondering about Magnolia wiesneri or something like that so will have to go out and look at ours now! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics. South Devon |
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Spider wrote:
"bluebelly" wrote in message ... Hi all - I have a small bush/tree in the garden I bought house last year and now for 2 seasons I have yet to see it flower or do something. June time it has loads of the buds shown in image but again as last year they have all but one vanished, either I have incredibly intelligent wildlife or my neighbours are pinching them, if it's wildlife I can start to protect them but I am unsure. The buds are firmly attached to the branches so I woudn't have thought they would fall off, they are about 2 inches long. I have no idea what the tree/shrub/bush is (I am new to gardening since buying my house which has a very estabilished garden) so any help would be great. I have uploaded an image for you to view. http://tinyurl.com/ml6y6t Thanks in advance -- bluebelly I think it may be a Magnolia grandiflora, or a Magnolia of some kind. M. grandifloras, though, often have year-round sporadic flowering, rather than a seasonal flush, which means you don't notice it flowering unless you look carefully - not at all like the M. soulangeana or M. stellata types, which are all too obviously in flower :~). Spider Definitely a magnolia, but isn't that a seedhead rather than a bud? Seems to me that magnolias often produce seedheads even when they haven't been fertilised, and they soon fall off. Depending on which magnolia it is, they can be a bit pernickety. I have liliflora nigra, and some years it hardly produces any flowers at all. AFAIUI, magnolias start production of next year's flowers at the end of the previous summer, so if the plants are stressed then, flowering may be impaired the next year. If it's not too late, a liberal dose of tomato fertilizer now may help it to flower next year. -- Jeff |
I would say Mag' seed heads...check out this pic
http://home.att.net/~SpanishMoss/treepod1.jpg Captain Wilksey. |
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There are so many magnolias you can't expect us to identify it exactly, and certainly not without seeing the flower. It's definitely not Mag. grandiflora though. It's looking a touch chlorotic (what happens to acid-loving plants when the soil isn't as acid as they would like). Perhaps some rhododendon feed would help it. |
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says... "Spider" wrote in message ... "bluebelly" wrote in message ... Hi all - I have a small bush/tree in the garden I bought house last year and now for 2 seasons I have yet to see it flower or do something. June time it has loads of the buds shown in image but again as last year they have all but one vanished, either I have incredibly intelligent wildlife or my neighbours are pinching them, if it's wildlife I can start to protect them but I am unsure. The buds are firmly attached to the branches so I woudn't have thought they would fall off, they are about 2 inches long. I have no idea what the tree/shrub/bush is (I am new to gardening since buying my house which has a very estabilished garden) so any help would be great. I have uploaded an image for you to view. http://tinyurl.com/ml6y6t Thanks in advance -- bluebelly I think it may be a Magnolia grandiflora, or a Magnolia of some kind. M. grandifloras, though, often have year-round sporadic flowering, rather than a seasonal flush, which means you don't notice it flowering unless you look carefully - not at all like the M. soulangeana or M. stellata types, which are all too obviously in flower :~). Spider It certainly looks like a Magnolia or Liriodendron. someone Should have said definately not a magnolia flower bud, may be a magnolia seed head -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea |
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