Alright guys, time to put your heads together to help me identify these shrubs. I hate exotic ornamentals, so I don't have a clue what they are (More accurately, I hate that I know so little about exotic ornamentals ::)). They're at a client's house, and all I was able to take was a few twigs, so it might be a little tough. Just throw out random ideas and I can research them further myself to see if there's a match. Thanks in advance for your help.
Shrub 1
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/15533/shrub4.jpg)
Shrub 2
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/15533/shrub3.jpg)
Shrub 3
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/15533/shrub2.jpg)
Shrub 4
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/15533/shrub1.jpg)
#1 reminds me of Roseofsharon, but it's hard to tell from the pic.
Dodgy, if they have you stumped then I don't know what your chances are. Those exotics are tough.
Maybe some of the far flung outlying FF members can provide some help. ???
I am exotically challenged :).
Quote from: Furby on April 21, 2008, 09:17:01 PM
#1 reminds me of Roseofsharon, but it's hard to tell from the pic.
Aha! Furby is correct! I did some internet sleuthing and shrub #1 is, indeed, a Rose of Sharon.
A little independent research also seems to indicate that #3 is a glossy abelia. It'll be easier to tell when the DanG thing flowers.
Shrub #2 could be multi flora rose. Hard to tell.
Wish I could help - the only exotics we have here are dancers :-X :-[ :-X
Hard to tell from the pic, but the leaves on #2 are opposite, so it can't be multiflora rose.
I was at another clients home this morning, and she happened to have shrub #4 planted in her front yard. "What's that?" says I. "Spirea," she replied. Shrub #4 is solved! 8)
Sprucegum we have those too, but they're easy to identify - you just have to know their tattoos. :-X ;)
Yeah #4 is Spirea, a new spring sucker. They plant one with white flowers here in small clumps and shape them with shears. We have two wild varieties here, hard hack/steeplebush with a pink flower and another with a white flower, meadowsweet, both grow in wastelands, more common in the NB lowlands along the coast.
Is #3 square stemmed? Kinda feels like a honeysuckle to me.
serviceberry/juneberry (Amelanchier)? Looks like a berry producing shrub.
Actually, all of the shrubs are solved, now. Here are the answers:
#1: Rose-of-Sharon
#2: Hydrangea
#3: Glossy Abelia
#4: Spirea
Much easier to ID now that the leaves are fully out :)!
Yeah, Hydrangea makes sense for # 2.
I've had one of those dang things here for 30 years and still just a stick. I see others and they grow up like a small lilac bush. ::)
Yeah not only leaves, but handling the shrubs and looking it over for the details helps a lot. ;D
Is your hydrangea mulched, Swamp Donkey? They like being mulched down here.
I don't mulch it Tom, except any lilac and sugar maple leaves that land on it and the tall flowers (yellow loostrife I think) beside it that die and break down beside it. I think I need to either pull it and start over with a new plant or walk away. Haven't made up my mind, but not real keen on buying a new shrub at $40 or more a pop. :( I have to do some tree transplanting soon, just need to get up and go. ;D
throw some leaves around if for mulch and walk off and leave it for awhile. Make a mulch bed 6" or so deep and 3-4 feet around, as long as the plant sticks out.