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What are these?

14 years ago

I've just started renting a house near Seattle, WA and was given full reign regarding the backyard. The backyard was not taken care of very well and has some beds but I'm new to gardening and not sure of what these plants are and what I should keep or get rid of. Could you name some of these for me?

1. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e31/tigeramam/name%20that%20plant/DSC_4940.jpg

2. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e31/tigeramam/name%20that%20plant/DSC_4941.jpg

^ this stuff seems to be everywhere... some of them produce this nasty foam looking stuff that I don't want go get near. They seem to be starting to get flowers on the top

3. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e31/tigeramam/name%20that%20plant/DSC_4944.jpg

4. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e31/tigeramam/name%20that%20plant/DSC_4945.jpg

^ cute little flowers but the plant itself stinks

5. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e31/tigeramam/name%20that%20plant/DSC_4946.jpg

^ I dug one up and it seems to be like a potato?

6. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e31/tigeramam/name%20that%20plant/DSC_4947.jpg

^ massive thorny beast that a neighbor is growing... creeps over and under and through the fence

7. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e31/tigeramam/name%20that%20plant/DSC_4949.jpg

8. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e31/tigeramam/name%20that%20plant/DSC_4952.jpg

^ a red version of #4

9. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e31/tigeramam/name%20that%20plant/DSC_4961.jpg

  1. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e31/tigeramam/name%20that%20plant/DSC_4962.jpg

This is just to start... there are a few more but these are the main ones. If you need more/better pictures, I'd be glad to take them. Thanks in advance!

Comments (13)

  • 14 years ago

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  • 14 years ago

    #1 Is Dock weed. Pull it out.
    #3 might possibly be Gladioulus. If not still looks worth hanging on to see what it is.
    #4 looks like a potato plant.
    #6 looks like a Rhodedendron.
    #8 is Lobularia maritima, Sweet Alyssum.

  • 14 years ago

    Typo there, sorry. #6 should read Rhododendron.

  • 14 years ago

    Well, it seems like I have messed up with the numbers. Those were going by the photos that Saltcedar kindly put up for us. It appears one is missing so these were out of order, now corrected:
    #5 is the potato plant
    #7 is the Rhododendron
    #9 is Lobularia

  • 14 years ago

    Usually I have to try to make the pics larger to see detail...LOL, I had to make these smaller!
    Your #5 is a potato.
    #3 appears to be an iris.
    #4 and 8...a cranesbill...Geranium sp.?
    #7...I think it's in the Rhododendron genus.
    #9...look at pics of sweet alyssum, Lobularia maritima

    Here is a link that might be useful:

  • 14 years ago

    Thanks for the help guys!
    Haha for making them smaller. It's what I get for taking pics with a DSLR.
    I'll have to try elsewhere for what #2 is... It really is everywhere. To me it is a weed but now my curiousity has been peaked.
    Is there a reason why the one geranium (#8) is as bright red as it is?

  • 14 years ago

    #3...glads didn't even enter my mind...if that plant is the same as you have as #24 in your photo album, I think it is a gladiolus.
    #6...good excuse to introduce yourself to your neighbor! Something in the Rubus genus, I would think.

  • 14 years ago

    It just occurred to me that the last one is probably Limnanthes douglasii (Poached egg plant)

    Dee

  • 14 years ago

    Some geranium turn red in the fall, some at the end of the blooming season. You might look at G. robertianum...I can't tell from your pics how large the flowers are.

  • 14 years ago

    my bad I missed a couple.

  • 14 years ago

    Compare the plant in the second picture to Epilobium hirsutum or other Epilobiums.

  • 14 years ago

    Using the order as posted by Salt:

    1. Rumex sp. - Dock*
    2. Epilobium sp. - Willowherb*
    3. Gladiolus
    4. Potato
    5. Rubus sp. Blackberry
    6. & 7. Rhododendron
    8. Geranium robertianum - Herb Robert*
    9. Lobularia maritima - Sweet Alyssum

    1. Limnanthes douglasii - Poached Egg Plant

    * - would be considered weeds. The blackberry may or may not need an * too, depending on whether it was deliberately planted, is in a good/bad position and/or yields decent fruit.