What an incredible day to be out in the garden! We started taking up sod today to make room for the raised beds I hope to start building soon. Before we get too far in, though, we need to figure out what a few things are in our existing garden so that we know whether to save them or not.
Can you identify any of these plants?
Suspect one:
Suspect two:
Suspect three:
Suspect four:
Suspect five:
Suspect six:
Suspect seven:
Please comment below if you know what these are; the more info you can give, the better decisions we can make on whether to leave as-is, transplant or remove mercilessly.
Well lots of good stuff y’all! But I’ll stick to what I’m 100% sure of.
1: crazy multiplying purple things
2: We have one and think it has orange flowers – nice one
3: a weed
5: Irises
6: Peonies! The best and most beautiful flower in the entire universe!
Maybe
7: periwinkle
#1 – may be daffodils. #3 may be tulips. If they’re bulb plants they’ll survive transplants.
#4 – get rid of it! Kill it! Make sure you get all the roots. It’s a Liriope (I think) and they’re very invasive. The rhizome travels along and sprouts another one… and another one… UGH. I remember my mom and I dug a TON out of the garden.
#5 – looks familiar. I think we had these at my parent’s house when I was a kid. Google said it may be “celosia”.
#7 – looks like Jasmine vine or an evergreen clematis. My mom has both of them and it looks familiar.
1 is Snow drops grow all over lawn..ok to after bloom in Mar.apr.
2 & 4 a small variety of Japanese iris,… Large Iris Mom calls them flags…american term
3 there is an Ivy vine and a WEED pretty weed tho… lol
5 Peony…needs Fertilizer
6 Looks like boxwood bush,, I would have to see up close…
7 peri winkle has 1 in. purple flowers ground cover needs pruning easy to propagate
1) may be daylillies
2 and4) iris
3) weed ( not the kind you smoke!)
5) peonies
6) unknown
Hope this helps
1) Is probably not snowdrops… those have already bloomed in our yard. They’re small, though, maybe only six inches high.
2) and 4) might be irises, but they’re definitely very different kinds. The big ones have rhisomes that look like ginger (and a similar size), while 4 has rhisones that are less than pencil-wide.
6) is a big shrub, at least four feet tall. Those are dried fruits that look like miniature blueberries, almost.
7) is a vine that’s almost 6 feet tall from base to tip. It’s not moving anywhere, but we’re going to need to trellis it better.
Definitely don’t dig one, two, four, or five… they all have the look of flowering perennial bulbs. You can transplant them in the fall if you mark where they are when they finish blooming. One looks like daffiodil or lily but they will flower any day now, four might be irises. Three looks like a weed.
Oh, I just saw all the other posts… oops.
1 – Wood Hyacinth – weedy bulbs, will spread & transplant fine
2 – Iris or Crocosmia, not sure, if it’s an Iris it’s small flowering, transplant
3 – a weed, I forget the name, dig up & toss
4 – Iris, large flowering, transplant
5 – Peoney, keep!! or move carefully
6 – Image won’t show up for me, flickr is being weird
7 – Possibly periwinkle vine (purple flowers), will transplant fine