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Please help identify this plant
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 http://s1156.photobucket.com/user/ab...ibrary/flowers What have I done, and is it worth keeping if I trim it a little and get it to behave? TIA |
Please help identify this plant
Roger wrote:
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. Heh, when you said triffid I thought of amaryllis! It's quite pretty. Is it some kind of honeysuckle? |
Please help identify this plant
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 http://s1156.photobucket.com/user/ab...ibrary/flowers What have I done, and is it worth keeping if I trim it a little and get it to behave? TIA Could it be simply Pink Jasmine, Jasminum polyanthum When the flower buds are not yet opened, they look like yours, as on this pictu http://0.tqn.com/d/treesandshrubs/1/...rbriweldon.jpg The leaves look like jasmine too... |
Please help identify this plant
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 http://s1156.photobucket.com/user/ab...ibrary/flowers What have I done, and is it worth keeping if I trim it a little and get it to behave? TIA Jasminum beesianum |
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One of the honeysuckles is far more likely. Not all of them have noticeable scent. |
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Shouldn't make snap decisions! |
Please help identify this plant
On 17/06/2013 10:01, kay wrote:
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' (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 - 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. Oh ye of little faith 2 pics of Jasminum beesianum taken a few mins ago http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...psd7a6daeb.jpg http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...ps1cee834f.jpg Incidental a lot of my J beesianum have 6 petals. Look at the stems in the original picture, you never have honeysuckle stems like that. David @ a now sunny side of Swansea Bay |
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Please help identify this plant
"Roger" wrote in message ... 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 http://s1156.photobucket.com/user/ab...ibrary/flowers What have I done, and is it worth keeping if I trim it a little and get it to behave? TIA I think its Jasminum beesianum, rampant thug, pretty flowers but not scented, its hybrid is better Jasminum x stephanense -- Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella and Lapageria rosea cvs http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk |
Please help identify this plant
"kay" wrote in message ... 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' (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 - 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. -- kay Well I think its J beesianum! -- Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella and Lapageria rosea cvs http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk |
Please help identify this plant
Charlie Pridham wrote:
... 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. Well I think its J beesianum! Quite right too! Not all Jasmines have leaves divided into leaflets and you wouldn't see the 5 typical petals because those flowers in the pic have yet to open fully. In Lonicera, the pedicels are typically very short, tight into the leaf base with the calyx reduced to very short triangular bracts. In Jasminum, the pedicel is elongated and the calyx is significantly more developed as in the pic. |
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Either that or both of you have simply ignored my post which read "But there again ... having looked again at the third photo and zoomed in almost to the point of fuzziness - I agree with David - Jasminium beesianum. Shouldn't make snap decisions!" |
Please help identify this plant
On 17/06/2013 23:07, Charlie Pridham wrote:
"Roger" wrote in message ... 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 http://s1156.photobucket.com/user/ab...ibrary/flowers What have I done, and is it worth keeping if I trim it a little and get it to behave? TIA I think its Jasminum beesianum, rampant thug, pretty flowers but not scented, its hybrid is better Jasminum x stephanense That is if you like its washed out pink colour |
Please help identify this plant
On 2013-06-18 08:16:18 +0100, kay said:
'Charlie Pridham[_2_ Wrote: ;985344']" One of the honeysuckles is far more likely. Not all of them have noticeable scent. kay Well I think its J beesianum! I've been had by gb, haven't I? Sometimes I think it's personal, the way it deletes my posts (even though I can see them here) Either that or both of you have simply ignored my post which read "But there again ... having looked again at the third photo and zoomed in almost to the point of fuzziness - I agree with David - Jasminium beesianum. Shouldn't make snap decisions!"[/i][/color] I didn't see that bit, Kay. Unless you have a particular reason for going through gb, you might want to research other avenues!! ;-) What I read from you was only this "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." -- Sacha South Devon |
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