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

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?

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...

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

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.

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!

"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

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