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Get your garden out

Merry Christmas to all.

Wondering if anyone could help identify a plant that has grown in my garden.

It may be a weed, but it’s quite interesting looking.

- Currently about 3 foot / 1 metre tall after ~ 3 years

- Putting on fresh growth in December, groups of 3 leaves together. Each leaf is about 1cm long. It was a damp morning when I took this picture, so leaves appear more covered in hair than normal appearance.

- Central stem is striped, possibly more square in cross section. New side shoots are very straight.

- In a shady location, perhaps not sunny enough for it to flower

A person on a street nearby has a similar looking plant which they have shaped into an egg shape. People are never in their gardens when you’d like to ask them a random question!

Any suggestions gratefully received.

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dw1305 said:
Hi all,

It looks like it might be a Broom (Cytisus spp.).

cheers Darrel
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Hi Darrel

Thank you very much for replying.

Thank you. It does look like a broom, but not the standard Westminster Broom.

Probably best to give it a few months and see if it flowers.

Thanks again


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Paul Kettless said:
Heres our little garden, not much width as we live in quite small old fishing cottage. Tried to utilise the space though.

Love my cook station, we use it all year round.
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Very nice! When you say "Cook station", you really mean "Drink station" don't you Paul? 😀
 
Wookii said:
Very nice! When you say "Cook station", you really mean "Drink station" don't you Paul? 😀
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Errr No🙄🙄😂 we low and slow in the wood oven all the time. And we love our pizzas in this household, not so our waistlines though. Never less it's used all year round.

The same with the plancha, often go out and cook something up in it.
 
Instant bonsai for those of you with no patience !
l collected these two willow branches just 11 months ago, all the new growth was from last summer.
Willow has the amazing abittity to sprout roots from virtually any off cut or fresh cut branch.
Just a few more years and they will be nice looking bonsai....8332E2C3-12F3-4ED7-87F5-9BC147E7E9E2.jpeg4A726EA4-24A7-4F17-A522-F12C70803919.jpeg
 

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Spring is coming! First bulbs coming into flowers in our garden. 🙂

The helleborus suffered from the snow, but the new flowers are coming into Bloom now.
 

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I put 150 crocus in the lawn in the autumn and they are coming through at the moment but only one has flowered yet. Everyone else's in the area are in full bloom but I'm normally late to the party anyway.
 
mort said:
I put 150 crocus in the lawn in the autumn and they are coming through at the moment but only one has flowered yet. Everyone else's in the area are in full bloom but I'm normally late to the party anyway.
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My whole garden is always a bit late as well compared to the rest of the neighbourhood. I suspect because the sun doesnt go high enough yet to get above the surrounding trees and high shrubs to warm the soil in my garden. Be sure to post a pic when the majority is in Bloom 😀
 
Hi all,
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I've got "My Angel", "Freckles", "Winter Beauty" and "Avalanche" as rooted cuttings at the moment,
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I'll just update the Clematis cuttings situation, now the days are drawing out. They've all survived, other than Clematis x cartmanii "Avalanche" which rooted but has subsequently died. I'm not sure why, but I have a feeling that happened last time.

It maybe that they didn't get enough light.

cheers Darrel
 
Whilst hacking away at the jungle that was my front garden I found this. Is this what I think it is and if so how on earth did it grow below thick bushes and survive -15 and 20cm of snow!
 

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Wolf6 said:
Whilst hacking away at the jungle that was my front garden I found this. Is this what I think it is and if so how on earth did it grow below thick bushes and survive -15 and 20cm of snow!
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What do you think it is?

It looks like a areca palm which is why I'm puzzled but apparently they can survive to -5c and under 20cm of snow it probably wouldn't have got much colder than that. I'm guessing you would have had to plant it.

I can't really imagine a areca in a Dutch garden so it's likely something else but luckily there is a helpful guy that I bet knows what it is.
 
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