Hello again! I hope someone can help me figure out some of the plants growing in my yard. #1 Tall, lanky upright single branches with soft heart shaped leaves. Grows very fast, no flowers so far, very LARGE ugly thorns. It survived a brutal winter, and doesn't appear to be adding anything to my landscaping. ( photo / image / picture from LoriWisdom's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from LoriWisdom's Garden ) This next one is similar, but no thorns and different leaf shape. Very upright, fast growing, no blooms of any kind. The one without thorns ( photo / image / picture from LoriWisdom's Garden ) very tender leaves but no flowers ( photo / image / picture from LoriWisdom's Garden ) This one is flowering but I can't find it at the stores around me to figure out what it is. ( photo / image / picture from LoriWisdom's Garden )
No idea on #1 or 2. But #3 reminds me of a Fire Bush or Firecracker Plant. I've seen them at Lowes and Home Depot.
Cheryl hit it with #3. I think #2 is a holly, although the growth pattern is a little strange for a holly. When we moved here to the farm there were several plants that were unknowns. After living with them for a year, we decided they were not what we wanted and yanked them out. Feel free to do the same with yours!
Yep, Cheryl got the flowering one correct, I had one a couple of years ago but being north of you, it didn't survive the winter. It was late September when I took the photo and my plant was beginning to go dormant, maybe you could upload your photo to it's plant page to give a prettier face to it... Hamelia patens (Firebush, Firecracker Bush) The 'one without thorns' at first looked like either a Hackberry or Chinaberry but there are little things about the leaves that are wrong. Whatever it is you see them all the time along fence lines, along the streets and poking up through landscaped areas where birds have planted them. As a measure to keep them from taking hold in places where you don't want them, you could just take them out while they are young. You could also take a stem of leaves to a garden center to see if they can put a name on it, just in case they do hold some appeal to you. The plant in your second photo, I have no idea, but I think I have one like it that no one could ID either, maybe someone will have an idea and we can search from their clue. The leaves are fairly thin and flexible?
Thanks for the help everyone! Yes Toni, the leaves on the one with thorns are smooth/hairless, very fragile and thin - almost like tissue paper. The thorns are about 3/4 inch long and are under the stem of the leaf. The main branches come up from a central area near the ground and are long with individual leaves attached to it. They do not branch out. It looks to be planted purposefully, there aren't any others of them, and it survived a winter that hit 19 degrees several times.
Second set of photos to like duranta. Fast growing upright and blooms later for me when it is taken to the ground by a freeze the previous year.
