plants and stuff

[Ankou]

is there a website where you can upload pictures of plants (or weeds that i think are plants) and get some helpful chap or chapess to try and identify them ?

i have some lovely looking plants in my garden, and some not so. would be nice to know what they are so that i can trim and care for them appropriately.

[rowanwitch]

if you describe them I can have a go, find you a link and you can say yea or nay... also try browsing the plant catalogues thompson and morgan, hilliers and others and they will have cultivation advice

[Ankou]

oh goodness, they would be like green and bushy, with some flowers etc.

its just that the house/garden i own was planted by the previous owners and i don;t know what everything is. in fact i have one plant this year that wasn;t there last year or the year before (at least not at about 5 foot and blinking obvious now!) i am toying with the idea it might be a weed.

lots of strong stems reaching up to about 5 feet, typical green leaves, and the top of each stem is just starting to sprout some purpole flowers. a bit like lavendar sprigs, but it aintn't lavendar (i think).

[rowanwitch]

http://www.gardenorga...ation/weed.php?id=116

if it is this dig it out and weedkiller it to death....

[Ankou]

crikey, no its not that, the leaves on mine are more your typical heart(ish) shape.

[rowanwitch]

Mallows, and fox gloves fit height/colour but not leaf shape I would suggest getting a flower and shrub encyclopaedia from the library and then once youve worked out what things are put labels on them while you get to grips with what is there

[Ankou]

libraries, encyclopedias, labels, damit this gardening stuff is hard work.

thanks for your input though. if i find out what this one is i'll let you know.

[Old_Geezer]

Books on plants you want are easy enough to find. Books on weeds so you can identify them seem in shorter supply :-(

Changing the subject a little, a few years back I stumbled on a website where you could upload your picture and it would be analysed by the software and matched with photos of celebrities. At the time, and even now, I don't know why that technology isn't used to allow uploading of plant photos to identify them against a known plant database. I'd love to know what all the prolific growers in my garden really are.

[rowanwitch]

http://www.botanicalkeys.co.uk/flora/
http://www.bhg.com/gardening/plant-dictionary/
quick look first one is wild flowers second one is garden plants

[AlBags]

What do you expect, eh?

Weeds are just plants in the wrong place.

[Ankou]

wow cool.

i'm starting to think it could be a styringa, will study it more when i get home.

[rowanwitch]

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/
this site does plant identification as well happy hunting

[Old_Geezer]

Not quite as simple as that. "Weeds" are difficult to kill off, "plants", on the other hand, are difficult to keep alive. If it died on you, it was a valuable plant.

[mollykins]

Gardeners question time . . . .

[RATTER15]

upload them to photobucket or similar and link it on here, someone will help, im sure.

[carlton23]

Send a leaf to Kew Gardens identification dept, Kew, London. In a plastic sandwich bag with a spray of water in it.