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Plant ID - shrub?

8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago

Any chance anyone could help me with a few plants we're not familiar with? Thank you!


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4. I think the bottom shrubs are monkey grass but are the taller grasses just regular weed?


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8. This one had little yellow flowers weeks ago


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10. Some kind of Hosta?


Comments (16)

  • 8 years ago

    Nandina domestica perhaps.

  • 8 years ago

    Good guess but it has never had any red berries on it. We just found out our daughter is allergic to a bunch of plants and we're trying to find if there are any in our gardens that might be a culprit. Thank you!

  • 8 years ago

    Too many images in one post. If you limit it to three or four, it's not such a big problem.

    1. yes, Hosta

    9. bulb foliage. maybe daffodils.

    8. Kerria japonica

    7. Salvia

    6. Geranium

    5.bulb that has already flowered, maybe Scilla

    4. Liriope with a wild grass in it. You may have to dig up the clump to remove it. Neighbor has the same issues.

    3. Euonymus, a fastigiate form such as 'Green Spire'

  • 8 years ago

    There are many sterile cultivars available. These are superior to the species which has become invasive in many areas.

    Yours may be 'Harbor Dwarf' or similar.

  • 8 years ago

    Berries or no berries, 1 is Nandina.

    5 appears to be a hyacinth.

  • 8 years ago

    Oh thank you! I'll limit the pictures next time. We just found out our daughter is allergic to a bunch of trees, grasses, and shrubs. And we're scrambling to figure out which ones will trigger a reaction :(

  • 8 years ago

    When I responded only the Nandina was showing.

  • 8 years ago

    Sorry! I edited them cause I didn't know I could post multiple photos.

  • 8 years ago

    #9 is a grass foliage - possibly Helictotrichon but more likely Lymus.

    #7 believe to be Veronica rather than Salvia

    #2 is a juniper.

    As noted previously, many dwarf forms of nandina never even flower let alone form berries. But #1 is indisputably a nandina :-)

    Is your daughter allergic to the actual plants (foliage or flowers) or just to pollen? That may have a large bearing on what you choose to keep or get rid of.

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    She'll have to use medication to cope due to all the plants she is susceptible to being out in the world. With depopulating your garden not really accomplishing anything.

    The individual flowers in the blue spikes have the shape of those of a Salvia. The leaves visible would also fit that and not a Veronica.

  • 8 years ago

    Thank you! She had bloodwork done and they came up with all kids of grasses (Bermuda, Timothy, etc), Trees (Silver Birch, White Oak, etc), even had "Sweet Gum" (a plant I've never heard of) so I told her she couldn't have gum, haha!

  • 8 years ago

    Yes, the medication does help but her 3 year old self loves to pick all kinds of things in our garden and give to people. I was thinking we could at least tell her which ones she could pick.

  • 8 years ago

    1 - definitely nandina, yes some don’t berry, Harbor Dwarf, Firepower, others

    2 - does look like a juniper - based on the form, could be “Grey Owl’ juniper

    3 - euonymus; could definitely be ‘Green Spire’ euonymus

    4 - variegated liriope muscari

    5 - hyacinth foliage

    6 - perennial geranium

    7 - I vote salvia; if you rub your fingers on a leaf and then smell your fingers and it smells pungent (kind of unpleasant smelling), it’s a salvia

    8 - ? looking at the pictures on line of Kerria japonica as someone suggested here, it looks right

    9 - spring flowering bulb foliage flopping, does look like daffodil

    10 - yes hosta

  • 8 years ago

    7 is Salvia. The typical flowers are clearly visible on my iPad, as are the leaves.

    The Liriope has a sedge growing up of it which needs removing.

  • 8 years ago

    Hi everyone! It will give me a few minutes to get these plants in order but I do appreciate your help from the bottom of my heart. Thank you, Ms. NHBabs for your allergy tips! I think it will be of great help! It's such a new thing so we're gonna try a few things to see what will at least minimize it besides the medicine. Nonetheless, the knowledge I have gained from this post is invaluable! I will post pictures one at a time in the future and better ones if I have them.

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