I'm not very good at identifing plants but in the bottom picture the light green plant I believe is stickers! I've been pulling them ever year. I don't know the correct name but I believe they are young stickers! If wrong someone please correct me. :)

I believe your large white blooming bush to be Spiraea, most likely it is Bridal Veil. It is a plant my grandmother used to have. It is very pretty when blooming but needs pruning to keep it from getting really large. I like it...and don't see so much of it anymore.

The large leaved plants are Cannas. There are many varities of them and they grow tall unless they are a dwarf variety and bloom all summer. Wonderful plants!

Against your fence the evergreen low growing plant is a juniper....possibly Blue Rug is what it is called. Makes an evergreen ground cover. I have them in my west facing landscape. They are tough and require little care.

The light green plant next to the cannas are probably a type of sedum. Again they are good plants and require little care. There are many many varities of them. I am not sure which that one is.

You also have an ornamental grass. Many varieties of those as well. Yours looks like it may be mondo grass, commonly called monkey grass. Often used for edging beds. It is an easy care, tough plant as well.

I agree that that the plant growing into the grass could be a type of sticker. Behind that in the last photo I can see a part of a plant called Dusty Miller. It is the one with hairy bluish-green leaves. It is an annual but many times in our climate it is perennial. It is a desirable plant for it's unusual foliage color.

I think the plant in the 3rd photo against the fence is a salvia...but I may be wrong. I have salvias in my flower beds there are a lot of types of salvia. They are desirable plants in our climate. They bloom when the weather gets nice and warm and bloom until frost for me.

There are many others who will be more help to you than I am but I hope this helps some. I could be wrong about some of them.

G.M.

Actually on second look those large leaved plants may be tulips. I have cannas and spoke too quickly.
On second look I do believe those are tulips.
Sorry!

G.M.

Oh geeze! I really hope those aren't stickers! We have family in Altus and so I hope we didn't bring these home with us! Thankfully, I believe this is the only spot I've noticed them growing. I'll have to take care of that when I get home tonight.

Isn't the yellow-green plant next to the tulips a moneywort or creeping jenny?
grannyjojo, I have sand spurs or grass burs in my yard. Is that the same stickers that you are talking about?

I am not too good on the ornamentals, but that light green one looks like what we always called a 'goat-head sticker'.

Kill it.

Dangit! I'm so mad that we've got stickers. Grr!

Will pulling it out do the job, or will I need to spray something on it or something? I do NOT want them to spread.

My in-laws have them in their yard and it's awful.

Pull them out....and quick, before they set seed.

The best defense against stickers is to have good soil, preferably with a humusy content. Stickers thrive in soil that is low in organic content. If you just cut your grass regularly and let the clippings stay on the grass, they will decompose and add compost to the soil surface and that will help a lot.

Dawn

The weed in the last photo looks like carpet weed (Mollugo verticillata) .

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:1099173}}

TerryDenise got the goathead sticker picture dead on.

Still, if I see anything even close to resembling that plant, I kill it if I can.

Oh god I hope you're right, terrydenise!!!

What I have doesn't look like the goathead picture, for sure.

Can you get an up-close photo of #1 the leaves and the flowers please.

I am not sure if it is a Spiraea...

I can't tell for sure, but your leaves do not like the Spiraea,

I'll try to get a closer picture when I get home tonight. The sun was in the way last night.

Perhaps this link would be helpful?

Good luck!
G.M.

Here is a link that might be useful: photos of spiraea

Merry,

Look at Photo 14 in your link..

Now try to look at tisha, look at the leaves, hers is in a 3 point where as the spiraea are not in a 3 point.
The spiraea has 2 leaves that branch out on both sides..

I need to see Tishas leaves and flowers close up to double check, but I do not think it is a spiraea.

You are probably correct and I am most likely wrong. Whatever plant she has it is very pretty...and so is the spiraea. I get a little sentimental when I see that one.

I didn't get into comparing leaves...lol. I just saw the trailing habit of her plant and knew that the spiraea does that and also the creamy white blooms. Ahhhh. Bee haven! haha.

I am not at all good at plant ID....I will be first to admit that. Just when I saw her photos I thought hey these are some I might actually be able to recognize. But hey perhaps not.

I hope you can help her figure out just what she has. I know it would be frustrating to move to a place where lots of things are growing and be uncertain of what to keep and what to get rid of....I have been there and done that actually. Got rid of some plants I later wished I would have kept. lol.

Hope everyone has a good night and don't lose plants!
G.M.

Whatever the plant in question is, it is lovely.

When I first saw it, I thought perhaps it was a double-white-flowered version of the Lady Banks Rose. But, I don't think the foliage is right, so I've kept my mouth shut. And there IS something about the foliage that looks so familiar, but I can't place it.

Dawn

OH daer Merry I don't wish to hurt your feelings..

It is a very pretty plant.

and it sure does look very much like the spiraea,
and I also truly love.. which is why we need to id the plant.
I have an idea of what it is, but I need a close up shot of the leaves and flowers before I am at 100%

OH and what do you smell when you sniff the plant?
what does it smell like? orange?

I think it might be a mountain syringa, for one.. and i have some others in mind.. but I really need to see the close up of the flowers and the leaves.

Kirts I had forgotten....the shrub I am remembering had a strong and unusual fragrance. Actually now I recall that I had one of these in my yard way back when and I was apparently allergic to it's blooms....I had forgotten that. It was in front of my house and drew LOTS of bees.

I also recall now that my grandmother used to call her shrub, which was HUGE, "My little aspirins".....she did....lol.

BTW of course you didn't hurt my feelings! I just really can't see the difference in the two plants....lol. Even looking at the leaves.

I truly am not very good at this plant ID thing....and even if I learn the latin and common names of plants I will forget them. My memory is just not capable of storing all that info like Dawn and so many others on here. They are AMAZING!

I think it is fun to TRY to ID and when I go to the garden centers I look at trees and shrubs and try to ID them before looking at the tags. I don't score very high though....lol.

Good luck getting an ID on it because it is so pretty I might like to plant one if I can find it. I have lots of fence areas I can plant against.

G.M.

PS Can anyone tell me how I did on the other plants? Just curious to know....like I said I think it is fun. It provides a diversion while I wait for truly warm weather to arrive.

Here's a closeup of the bush with the yellow flowers and also another shot of the possible stickers.

I haven't thought to smell them, so I'm not sure what their scent is. I'll have to do that tonight when I get home.

After seeing the close up this it is going to be very interesting! That is one GORGEOUS plant! Those blooms look like clusters of small roses! It does remind one of Lady Banks rose.

Ya'll hurry and figure this one out! I can't wait to learn the answer. I have just the spot I would love to plant a bush like that if it would take the conditions of that area. It would fill another ugly corner of fence.

And no the blooms do not look like the blooms in the photos in the link I posted. So it can't be spiraea.
It is not like my grandmother's bush either.

G.M.

The only thing I can say about it is that it did not have blooms on it back in late June or early July when we started looking at the house. And we moved in on August 14th and it didn't have blooms then either.

And, it just bloomed like within the last week. We left for our vacation on April 7th and it was not in bloom. We came back on April 12th and it was full of blooms.

You can see it in this picture, from last July or so (when the old owners still lived there).

It's gotten a lot taller. BTW, it's the plant growing up by the fence behind the pond. I don't know if it will be hard to tell what I'm talking about since the angle is different than my original picture.

Oh my goodness! I LOVE your yard! Want to trade places with me? lol
I have no idea what your plant is but I hope Kirts or someone will know.
But thank you for the treat this morning of just getting to see your lovely yard. What a blessing to have such a lovely place to enjoy!
G.M.

Oh thank you. The backyard was one of the biggest reason we bought the place. Honestly.

Here are some more pics, if you're interested. Now, keep in mind, we are not experts, so I'm sure the backyard won't look as perfect as it did when the other people lived there, but we're trying. :-)

All of these pics are from last July or so.

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Tisha I am simply PEE-GREEN with envy! I would feel like I must have died and gone to heaven with a place like that!

I just love everything about it. Someone really worked hard to get it looking like that. I love all your outdoor living areas! And the flora just all look to so healthy and vibrant.

And that GRASS! I could only WISH my lawn looked like that!
Love the saloon doors. What a neat touch!
Thank you so much for sharing the photos. I love photos!

I am sure you will do great at keeping it looking lovely. With a yard like that it will be pure pleasure to do whatever tweaking you need to do. It almost makes me wish we had a single lot instead of this big double odd shaped one. If it were smaller perhaps I could figure out more to do with it. Of course being younger and healthier would be beneficial too. :)

Keep sharing photos! And be sure to fully enjoy that lovely place!

BTW do you take in borders for the summer? lol

G.M.

Tisha,

What a beautiful yard! I would have bought that place too. We did it the hard way.....bought acreage that was essentialy an abandoned farm and have been trying to turn overgrown pasture into a landscape, and it is slow and tedious. You did it the smart way!

Now that I have seen the close-up of the plant, I am more inclined to think it is a rose, and probably a Lady Banks Rose. The bloom period is perfect, too, for either a Lady Banks or some other spring-blooming rose. I've linked a googled photo so you can compare it to yours. By the way, I don't think Lady Banks has either thorns or a fragrance.

If we ultimately decide it is a Lady Banks, then I think I am going to have to plant one. It is just gorgeous.

And, as far as keeping the place looking perfect....just do the best you can, enjoy it and, in no time at all, you'll be an "old pro". With a place that beautiful, gardening will be a real joy.

Dawn

Here is a link that might be useful: Photo of Lady Banks' Rose

Thanks everyone. We are really enjoying it. I don't know what kind of grass it is, but it stayed green all winter. And when we got back after our week of vacation (and all the rain we had last week) the grass was at least 2.5 feet high. It was crazy! Everything was all bloomed out and so green.

When the pics I posted from last July were taken, we had just had a very rainy patch too, so that's why it all looks SO lovely.

I couldn't get over those HUGE ferns she had over by the shed (saloon doors) they were SO big and pretty. We have a few plants that we got at the end of the season and set outside and they did really well. Then we had to move them into the sun room and they didn't do so hot over the winter, but I think at least three of them are salvageable. I just can't do ferns though. I've NEVER had one that lived a whole year.

I am now at a loss of what you have.. everything I thought it could be, it is not..

Don't' give up... let me do some checking around and maybe I can find someone who does know.

will you be giving away cuttings or starts from that shrub
after it is finished blooming?

your other photo is a weed.. they are nasty little things :)

Okie,

I think your on to something with it being in the rose family.
However, I am not sure if that is is or not, the flowers do cluster like a rose, but with the rose from your link, the leaves have ziz-zags where as that I can tells, hers is smooth.. plus the leaves are not as waxy..
A lot of roses are spotty in leaves, and this one has tons of them, even in summer..

I am at a loss.. but I will keep pondering this for you

Did anyone suggest garden phlox for the tallish plants against the fence? That's what I'm thinking. Definitely tulips. They've been in the ground for a couple years and have made offsets. That's why the leaves are so clustered up. The weed twining through the liriope looks like cleavers to me. They are very easy to pull but sandpapery with their raspy stems. I use gloves. And the white shrub looks like some kind of ramblin' rose to me. but I'm not savvy enough about roses to say what variety. You also have a lovely spot of creeping jenny and I wish I could raise artemesia as nice as the one I see in one of the photos.

Kirts,

I was hoping it WAS a mountain syringa because that would be such a lovely plant to have in a yard.

And, no, I know it doesn't look precisely like the foliage of a Lady Banks, so I am feeling dazed and confused. It "almost" looks like several things, but doesn't look exactly like anything I can think of.

Last year, G. M. posted a photo of a tree-like sprout that keeps coming up in her yard, and we spent MONTHS on it, and never came up with an answer.....and we really tried.

I've linked that thread for you below. If you are good at IDing plants, maybe you'll come up with something that the rest of us missed. I warn you, though, that these "identify this plant" threads can become positively addictive.

Dawn

Here is a link that might be useful: Attempt to Identify G.M.'s mystery plant

I have a lady at the Myriad Botanical Gardens working on an answer..
she needs to know if it produces thorns or not and does it have any fragrance.

they are also leaning towards a rose right now.

I will view the link for you :)

Trees & Shrubs I am pretty good at IDing.. flowers not very well at all, more on the very poor side.
However, this one has me stumped..

Is there any way you can get in touch with the past owners and ask them if they remember what it is?

No thorns, and no smell (well, other than an earthy-plant kind of smell)

Yes Dawn, I know I am also pondering my head off, and get a brain storm, only to be let down,
I am still looking for this or that, and coming up dry after viewing a photo.

It is some type of shrub, you can clearly see the hardwood in her last photo, its not green as a rose bush.. but the flowers, sure talk rose..
a Rose bush doesn't have that many leaves on it, even in summer it is busting with leaves.

Maybe one of the people I emailed will pull though and have this ID'ed for us.
or one if us will get lucky.

Tisha,
Can you contact the past owners and ask?

Technically, I could.... Do I want to? Not really.

I had to deal with them A LOT for the first 6 months we lived here, and I'd rather not ever be in contact with them ever again. lol

I heard back from one place today.

they are saying that it is a Lady BankÂs Rose.

http://www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder/Plant.asp?code=C774

Kirts,

Thanks for the update.

You know, that was my original gut feeling, but I more or less talked myself out of it because I thought the foliage was not quite exactly right. Then I talked myself back into thinking that was it, and then I talked myself out of it again. LOL

Now I think I will have to plant one, perhaps on the trellis on the east side of the chicken coop. I know it only blooms for a short while, but it sure is gorgeous during that time.

Dawn

They are GORGEOUS! I will be looking around my place for a place large enough for one myself. I get kind of spooked by the photos I see of the enormous ones though. They can be quite vigorous I guess.
Still they are just breath taking. Pick of the Day had them a few weeks ago when I was searching for Clematis.

How fun that the mystery is solved!
Any more plants we can ID anyone? lol
G.M.

Yes Dawn, I know it was your first gut, but like yourself, I wasn't sure. just did not fit in the rose cat, but once I saw the close up view.. I started to turn, but no thorns.. that threw me for a loop! LOL

I dont' get scared about something big, I get really excited! I guess because I have such a large area I can plant in.. If I had a small yard, i may have 2nd thoughts : )

I have my eye on one at ebay..: ) I dont' know of where to buy one locally
Enjoy it Tisha!!!

Tisha,