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Crape Myrtle?

Just a guess.

can she get any closer

Based on what can be seen from that photo, I am stumped as well :-) Both the branch structure and flowering habit are a bit unusual and I can't think of anything that duplicates that. Can you get a close up?

Not a crape myrtle. Unlikely in Seattle and certainly not if the shrub is blooming now.

Any chance of it being this?

http://nativeplantspnw.com/category/evergreen-shrubs/

The second pic in the article seems similar, but I’m not personally familiar with it, so wild guess!

Do Tree Heathers grow in Seattle ...?

Yes, they do. But I have never seen one that looked like that!!

Crape Myrtle or Firethorn (Pyracantha fortuneana) ?

Malus 'Adirondack'.

"Malus 'Adirondack'."

With no trunk? And why only flowers clustered at the very branch tips? Adirondack branches are normally clothed with flowers all along their length.

its definitely not a rebud.. eh cersis???

the blue flowers below make the pic look photoshopped ... are you sure your daughter isnt messing with you ??? ...lol

lets call it the thank you plant and call it a day ... i mean... the plant is clearly labeled... lol

ken

'Not a crape myrtle. Unlikely in Seattle and certainly not if the shrub is blooming now.'

I haven't seen that the picture was taken lately.

It looks to be google image of the area but idk.

Bill, if it were a blooming crape myrtle, which is not all that common here under the best of conditions as we lack any significant summer warmth, the leaves would be much larger than the tiny little things that show in the photo. And they wouldn't be clustered so densely the full extent of the stems.

I'd also suspect this a current photo as the low blue flowers look to be lithodora, which is in full, electric blue flower at this time.

Isn't that just a phone camera photo? Certainly a clearer, closer photo could tell us more.

We really need closer pictures.

Doesn't look like an arborescent Erica to me.

I have no idea if anything in the Rosaceae could look like that. I'll let Embo and Gardengal continue to duke it out on that. ;-) It's a tiny bit like an unimproved seedling pearl bush, but I doubt it.

I just ordered seeds of Fendlera from Alplains. That genus has been on my radar since spotting the picture in P&R's Shrubs back in the mid 1990s when I was in college. It could look like this, and not out of the realm of possibility someone in the PNW would grow it as a drought tolerant "native" shrub.

Actually the photo was from last week and I saw the plant Wednesday as we passed it leaving my daughter’s house. Not photoshopped but admittedly a fuzzy photo. She also sent me a video but not sure that would load here. I will ask if she can get a better photo. I am VERY curious especially after flummoxing this knowledgeable group.

Now doing a bit of googling it seems like badly pruned crabapples can look like this...so Occam's razor and all, that's probably the likely explanation.

cercis you would have to upload the video to youtube on vimeo and then post the URL using the "Video" button in the editor.

My daughter is not evenly remotely interested in gardening but she loves this plant, calls it the De. Seuss tree.

Look some more and you will see multiple examples having been grown in bush form. At least those come up in Bing.

Also notice the 'Adirondack' asked about here is below a wall, with the photo having been taken from the upper level. So that the crab could perfectly well have a short trunk - again multiple examples with this habit shown by Bing - that is not visible because of the involved change in grade.